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Nintendo Switch Online Service lets the console owners enjoy online multiplayer gaming as well as a dedicated smartphone app that connects to the Nintendo Switch system and helps connect with friends for co-op and competitive games online.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Nintendo Switch Online users through our website.
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Online Play (47%)
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Sign in (42%)
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Matchmaking (11%)
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The most recent Nintendo Switch Online outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Asunción |
Online Play | |
 Philadelphia |
Sign in | |
| Edenton |
Matchmaking | |
| Miami |
Sign in | |
| Valencia |
Online Play | |
| New Orleans |
Online Play |
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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HauntPlasticX
(@handsplasticx) reported
@Miguel_Casso @KainlessG @PaulatyX That’s a problem in itself too The overarching problem being that Nintendo is really annoying with prices 90% of the time
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Nath
(@Bluh_Bear) reported
@strawbbytoni There's a pretty simple fix if you're comfortable opening up your joycons. tbh, it's hard to imagine why Nintendo hasn't fixed it themselves, by now.
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5- Layer Beefy Whoreito (KERO)
(@KERO_ART) reported
@AWDtwit Idk ive been poor my whole life so ive never had issues “going without” I’ve literally chosen nintendo online over hulu before… these are hardly things I NEED to survive so i don’t understand why people are drowning themselves in shallow emotional puddles over NON ESSENTIALS
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GokaiFire
(@FireGokai) reported
@TheNCSmaster Even with adding more systems, I'd question the price tag. Mostly because of how bad Nintendo has been about adding games to the service we already have.
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Bigi Neyaz
(@BiGiY_Y) reported
@BlizzardCS hello, i bought D2R for my Nintendo switch yesterday and since then i have been getting connection error or failed authentication error. Even tho on battlenet it is linked and i am 100% sure im connected to my internet. Please help.
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Ed
(@EdvartVon) reported
@ModernVintageG And all these thirsty SIMPS just happy to cop Nintendo's BS. They've got the worst online system imaginable, it barely PS3 level. 360 era XBL is a much better service. "B, but N64 and Mega Drive games....."
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Little Record Ghoul 👻
(@LilRecordGirl) reported
@TheDazeel I (sadly) believe the Switch is their worst designed console in terms of how faulty it and the joycons get so easily and quickly. Never had this many issues with any other Nintendo consoles or handhelds.
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Cl0udGamer
(@Cl0udGamerYT) reported
@dasme Nintendo online is not even worth the old price, no free games that are good, no messaging and no party chat! @NintendoAmerica your a joke I'm not paying your crazy price increase when your online service sucks
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Prince
(@SaithusX1) reported
@its_glennn @NintendoAmerica That won't be a problem...I'm assuming a lot of people aren't gonna pay that.
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Erlend Grefsrud
(@Slaktus) reported
from
Barcelona, Catalunya
@The_Reviewist @Alexander_Had1 My best bet is that the people heading Xbox don't want to compete with Sony and Nintendo any longer since that's not working out for a them, and so they've decided to just hoover up a disinterested audience, Netflix style. It's a weird move, which is why I'm talking about it.
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(@exzisd) reported
from
Geneva, Illinois
Nintendo’s Expansion Pack for Nintendo Switch is far too expensive. Nintendo online services are severely lacking and very slow. Offering some old Nintendo 64 + Genesis games with Animal Crossing DLC is not at all worth the premium price tag. Fix your online services @Nintendo!
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Miguel
(@Miguel_Casso) reported
@saltydkdan @KenKrumbach postscript I also think that the online nintendo switch service should be cheaper
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𝙑𝘼𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙔
(@VaporKelly) reported
@MostlyKarl Oh yeah totally agree. The communication part is off and that might be part of the problem and outrage, but I've seen enough video game nerd chatter to know some people dgaf and just want to rage at Nintendo/big companies unless it's everything they want and cheap.
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Nintendo Shame
(@NintendoShame) reported
It's been 87 days since the last game was added to the Nintendo Switch Online service
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佳鑫
(@xj2000years) reported
@BlizzardCS Are the Nintendo Switch Servers Down? I want to play on switch！！！
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ZwanGhost🎮 Death Stranding loop, Arise!
(@Zwanguy) reported
Nintendo forcing people to "buy" the AC dlc as part of their new tier of Online service is an odd choice honestly.
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Simon Stevens
(@vita_quest) reported
Nintendo themselves are killing my desire to buy games from them, even though the Nintendo Switch online service doesn't concern me I just cannot bring myself to support such a scumbag company with my money.
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pat.
(@8PopPat8) reported
@Dabsveps Something about nintendo online being even more overpriced because they don't have dedicated servers so there are quite a few issues. People want dedicated servers and instead we got a 30 dollar expansion with a few new bonuses.
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Samstolgia
(@samstolgia) reported
@smugwave -The games are trash -The online service -It's weak -It's overrated and for normies -Joy con drift Literally any Nintendo console before the shitch is better. This is the absolute worst Nintendo console.
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Mansen 🎮
(@herrmansen) reported
"Piracy is morally acceptable when it comes to Nintendo" is a popular meme among retro console gamers. But with the new "expansion pack" subscription service of 30$ a year on top of regilar onliner - for a fraction of their libraries, no one should defend their rights.
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CheatFreak
(@cheatfreak47) reported
@Chomper_NG @RaymanFacts The problem I have with this isn't that they're selling N64 games again or whatever, it's that the price hike is more than double and people already felt pretty ripped off by the original tier of NSO. It's low effort on Nintendo's part. Compare NSO to Xbox Game Pass, for example.
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P+
(@SpaceOperative) reported
@jokesdepartment @AWDtwit If no one pays for it, Nintendo will increase the number of titles in the service to build value. As for me, wake me when they add 1080p60 GameCube games.
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Teshno
(@Teshnope) reported
@OrdinaryGamers All that aside, nothing hammers home the fact that Nintendo won the 90s console wars more than the fact that their once sworn competitor is now merely an additional feature on their subscription service. God DAMN Sega ******* lost hard.
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💫 Falling 💫
(@thestarryshores) reported
I need help for an #ACNH issue. my sis made a villager on my island using the same email she has now used on her own switch device for her own char. now i cant sign into it. Is there any way to link the char on MY island with a new nintendo account so I can sign back in?
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nWo Mark
(@MisterMark82) reported
The Nintendo Switch Online service/Expansion Pack is some ridiculous stuff. Don't support this. As a reminder you get 300+ games on Microsoft's Game Pass. Brand new titles released this year along with classics from the Xbox/360 era.
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Miguel
(@Miguel_Casso) reported
@saltydkdan @KenKrumbach I also think that the online nintendo switch service should be cheaper (but what I will never accept is that they say that the current business model is worse for the client)
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スマビーフ (つ o_o )つ
(@SmashBeef) reported
@Diablo I bought the game for the Nintendo Switch and I can not even play the game offline. I keep getting a message from the main screen "An Issue occurred while communicating with the game servers. Please check that you are connected to the internet and try again" why? :(
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ASDF❗❓ | RGB Viking
(@asdfcore) reported
Nintendo must not be aware of how many ways you can get Genesis games already. I think I got like 15 of them for free on Steam. $50 is an insane price hike for the online service. Hot take: most people remember the N64 fondly (including me) but most games are tough to go back to
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Quarantined Box of Wheat Pasta
(@pasta_wheat) reported
@fatimania_ns @NintendoAmerica Unfortunately that won't happen as long as they keep making money from doing more and more scummy things. Keep online free, bring back the Virtual Console, and create a Game Pass like service of retro Nintendo games. Use the money generated from the monthly to localize
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TaxBeast
(@TaxBeast) reported
@NintendoAmerica Y'all need to fix your online before you start doubling the price of it.