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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.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Nintendo Switch Online Outage Chart 01/23/2026 20:35

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Nintendo Switch Online users through our website.

  1. Online Play (62%)

    Online Play (62%)

  2. Sign in (31%)

    Sign in (31%)

  3. Matchmaking (8%)

    Matchmaking (8%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Nintendo Switch Online outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomPreston Online Play
ParaguayAsunción Online Play
United StatesPhiladelphia Sign in
United StatesEdenton Matchmaking
United StatesMiami Sign in
United StatesValencia Online Play
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • instantMigoRen Ren (@instantMigoRen) reported

    Get the falcon guy that sent Nintendo a bible of falcon problems and got falcon buffed to the abomination he is now to write a formal complaint about Steve

  • NaOkiExistiert NaOki (@NaOkiExistiert) reported

    @Usernamemustbea @IGN Idk man, maybe the actual problem is that the F-Zero franchise was part of the declining Nintendo console era, which made more niche franchises sell less? I mean. Metroid got a revival. We even see games like Fast Racing Neo and Redout gaining popularity

  • MegaNerdX4 MegaNerdX (@MegaNerdX4) reported

    @AndrewAlerts More than likely there was a problem with the display & the Nintendo Retail Rep/Brand Ambassador for that area had to take it down to either fix it or replace it with a newer one.

  • Veeluminati sacred divinity 可流フ (@Veeluminati) reported

    I wish Nintendo would have proper DLC waves for their Expansion Pak service. Add at least 3 games' DLC content to NSO every two months or so, or at least speed up and add better retro games to the library. Feels like we get two games every four months.

  • mikestinctively Androids & Cyborgs - 🌠 (@mikestinctively) reported

    @NintendoVS @NintendoAmerica Good lord could you update Mario Maker 2?!! Get rid of the lag and the horrible multiplayer level please!!

  • tealeeaf teeleaf (@tealeeaf) reported

    Also Mario galaxy is impossible to play in handheld for me but that's less an issue with the game itself and more it wasn't designed for the switch in mind and Nintendo did the most low effort ports imaginable for the all stars collection

  • blacknwhtmaroi black and white mario (@blacknwhtmaroi) reported

    @breakingmorb @NintendoAmerica This is Nintendo's twitter account. I can post whatever I want under their tweets. It just so happened that this post was the most recent one after everyone was having trouble, so the majority of people who were talking **** to Nintendo were doing so under this tweet.

  • SOLUNA_KNIGHT Soluna Knight (@SOLUNA_KNIGHT) reported

    @NintendoUK I shall give it a go & see if I can get past the Rabbids being in it as that's what puts me off which I know is my problem & I'm probably missing out on good game but there we go 🙃🙃🙃

  • TheWordsmithKC Nicky Thomas, Witchy Writer (@TheWordsmithKC) reported

    @EmilyKHoffmann I was indeed amazing at Tetris, the original Nintendo game. My lack of depth perception (just one of my vision problems) means I can't translate that to "playing tetris" with packing a truck or something. It's frustrating.

  • DomoReset HaiDomo | HADES, HADES, HADES (@DomoReset) reported

    @Spoz020 I disagree with the subscription service part because that makes it immediately less accessible to casuals But that part about f2p sounds like a good route to go for any game while the PC port thing sounds like a bump up in accessibility I can't imagine nintendo doing that

  • MetatronFoS Metatron (@MetatronFoS) reported

    If I ever renewed my Nintendo Switch online service, who would be down facing off against me in NES Ice Hockey?

  • Ionis64 Ionis64 (@Ionis64) reported

    3/3 Manage to have 2 DIAMONDS a good portion of the set (which is to put it lightly, a little broken), Something needs to change. I do not wish to ban Steve. I really really like steve in smash. But i please implore Nintendo to nerf them. This is too much.

  • JxzrAle AleJXZR (@JxzrAle) reported

    @bekiyan @shinobuandpooh The problem here in mexico isn't the popularity of Nintendo, it is pretty popular actually. The problem is the price, since Nintendo don't distribute officially, the only company who bring them, sell it overpriced. Here the series x is almost same expensive as the switch oled

  • dolst doLst (@dolst) reported

    @masked_bastard I might actually have that issue of Nintendo Power. 🤔 Surf Wisely.

  • NoxDawnsong Nox Dawnsong (@NoxDawnsong) reported

    @Digivolvar To be honest, i kind have trouble to understand why Nintendo even charges extra for online-play. Maybe i misunderstood something, but it feels like reselling your own internet-access for something that is free on other platforms...

  • BlueDino152 BlueDino (@BlueDino152) reported

    Also it's wild to realize that toby was in talks with Nintendo just 5 months after first releasing undertale, and it only got canned because of console problems. Like, you cannot tell me this man and Nintendo don't magically get along

  • GrinchySK ⚣𖤐Jack | SONIC ERA💙💚✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@GrinchySK) reported

    @David97901815 It was due to nintendo and disney licensing issues so i guess they could only use bowser

  • GapFreezer Freezer (@GapFreezer) reported

    @xanxan_223 Yeah, and they're my problem. Not Nintendo.

  • Neoxon619 Nabil #BlackLivesMatter #StopAsianHate (@Neoxon619) reported

    @realShadoroth @CubeBc Nintendo is pushing MLB: The Show harder than most expected, so Sony isn’t the problem here. It comes down to how Nintendo treats tournaments regarding sponsorships & how that impacts each major. Unlike most, EVO seems to need the publisher as a sponsor to host their game(s).

  • MetalVolundr Axayacatl Balam (@MetalVolundr) reported

    @xbox_screens @shinobuandpooh that's exactly the problem, Nintendo has no official distribution here, all distribution falls into one company, and it takes advantage of its position and increases up to two or three times its original value.

  • KPKaiza Kaiza (@KPKaiza) reported

    GOML ran 1.03 mod and yet we still: -had a crash mid top 8 -had no neutral start spawns -had no slippi mirroring for higher quality broadcast if they had a spoke with a nintendo rep that would mean: -UCF is ok -remapping is ok -freezing stadium is ok this **** arbitrary as hell

  • Bloodswu1f Bloodswulf (@Bloodswu1f) reported

    Nintendo fix your ****. Really a comms error in the finals? #SwitchSports #switch

  • HoshikiRui Rui 🌓 VTuber×××× (@HoshikiRui) reported

    With Dragalia Lost ending service this month, I'm wondering if we'll ever get a Dragalia game for Nintendo consoles. It had so much potential.

  • ArtiSeyo that scarf artist (@ArtiSeyo) reported

    @Touyarokii I’ve actually learned this quite early on because I had one of those strategy guide books for Pokémon D&P! The Nintendo mic wasn’t a great thing back then though so voices translated into a very broken sound as a result lmao

  • zSleepySad SleepySad狼 (@zSleepySad) reported

    @inkhy3 I guess is from my nintendo switch is broken or something idk

  • RadSpaceKoopa Wally (@RadSpaceKoopa) reported

    @PownicMania5000 "Nintendo will have a direct haha" people joke about this more then they talk about the issues and don't even care past day one Daisy got more of an uproar on Twitter then real people

  • NintendoShame Nintendo Shame (@NintendoShame) reported

    It's been 348 days since the last game was added to the Nintendo Switch Online service

  • octavariumarg symphony (@octavariumarg) reported

    @SkillUpYT Nintendo doesn't take kindly to copyright issues so they better hurry lmao

  • Charnelscrow Shady Shane (@Charnelscrow) reported

    Last show I went to the band could sense my Nintendo 3DS is irreversibly broken and stopped midsong to single me out. said it made no sense for me to attend any social function if I couldn't make use of StreetPass nor add anyone to my friends list. I felt alone and ashamed.

  • mfcodeworks M Fletcher 𝔍𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔒𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔯 (@mfcodeworks) reported

    @shitpostbotmax @ChromiumDev Exactly, the two are completely separate issues There's good optimisation for Nintendo Then a complaint about bad compilers and dev tools Absolutely no relation except "code"