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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 01/04/2026 22:20

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Sign in (47%)

    Sign in (47%)

  2. Online Play (47%)

    Online Play (47%)

  3. Matchmaking (7%)

    Matchmaking (7%)

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 StatesNew Orleans Online Play
United StatesLos Angeles Online Play
United StatesBatesville Online Play
United StatesUpper Marlboro Sign in
South AfricaPretoria Online Play
United StatesLas Vegas Online Play
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Alyssa_herself Alyssaherself🪨🧠 (@Alyssa_herself) reported

    Seeing all the issues with Nintendo switch online N64 service- holy **** don’t buy that **** wtf- they charge you a fortune for it and then provide bottom barrel ported versions of the games. Laggy af, quality is low etc. don’t waste your money on it

  • __cloudose__ Qian (William) Zhou (@__cloudose__) reported

    @Nintendo Switch has a minor error in Chinese(simplifed) translation. 'Recover/Healing/Restore' in Chinese is "恢复", but it displays "回复". Same error in Zelda BOTW, Xenoblade Chronicles and Fire Emblem: TH. Probably an error in the translation repository?

  • GendoWasRight Sydney Butler (@GendoWasRight) reported

    @younghavok @scottd4571 @ModernVintageG I can't argue with your subjective experience, but at the same time it's a fact that some things, like fog rendering in OOT, are broken. They aren't broken in other emulators running in the same hardware. Nintendo can fix it and they should.

  • NianticHelp Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) reported

    Currently, when starting Pikmin Bloom with a Nintendo Account, you won’t be able to link it with any login methods used for other Niantic games.

  • hunterx90sfan1 Hunterx90sfan (@hunterx90sfan1) reported

    @NintendoAmerica I would get it until I get money and patch the N64 lagging.

  • playcritically Andrew Dread (not a halloween name) (@playcritically) reported

    @bradgallaway I can't even follow what you just said. I got review codes for the Australian eshop, so I made an Australian Nintendo account to download them. I've never had a problem playing the games with my US-linked profile before.

  • wertlopdertimor Wertlopdertimor (@wertlopdertimor) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Honestly, as a consumer it seems abusive to me, since the quality of the online game is very low, I am quite disappointed with how they charge for this type of service that does not offer a quality service at the level of the company, too bad.

  • Nick01882145 Nick (@Nick01882145) reported

    @NintendoAmerica No one cares. Fix your n64 emulation

  • extraetcplz bl!p🎃👻💀🧙🏽‍♂️🧛🏻‍♂️🧟‍♀️🥷🦹🏼‍♀️💀👻🎃 (@extraetcplz) reported

    @YTMario55901 @KazeEmanuar @NintendoAmerica Sorry you have to pay for bad emulation w/lag and rent DLC. I won’t be a sheep and pay what Nintendo is offering right now for their expansion service.

  • Eeve2espeon Sakku Tatsainyo ✨🐉✨ (@Eeve2espeon) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Y'all wouldn't be bragging about your rom list down in the replies unless the N64 emulator had 0 problems, and the package was less than 50-ish :P instead demand Nintendo to fix this crap :V cuz this is blasphemous

  • TheeNintendoFan The Nintendo Fanboy (@TheeNintendoFan) reported

    Bugsnax is definitely a Nintendo-esk game. Not saying it’s good. But Nintendo gamers would give it more of a chance. Not a fan of FNAF. So didn’t pay attention. Kartrider Drift - Could be fun. Not enough gameplay scene to know. First Class Trouble - 3D Among Us…yeah… no.

  • TempestDriver 🇬🇧 ♂️ 🎮 John 🎮 ♂️ 🇬🇧 (@TempestDriver) reported

    @NintendoAmerica I'm not playing any of them till you fix it lmao some of them need fixing and such so I'm not playing them right now lmao.

  • brockasnephew ʄօӼ ɮօօɢɨɛ 🔮🛸 (@brockasnephew) reported

    @davidfayemiwo When you fix that voice. Holla at me. When you produce QUALITY and not Nintendo 64 Demo scrapped beats then maybe we can talk. Like I said once and I will say again. Do not address me.

  • jiggaboojones93 ampunk93 (@jiggaboojones93) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Please fix your online service. Games are great, but we NEED an update on overall service. Like Voice Chat should be available on all online play games.

  • PSIProdigy Greasy Smeghetti (@PSIProdigy) reported

    @Spamus100 @Akfamilyhome @NintendoAmerica I know, but you kinda got me thinking like man some people out here really are that stupid and i’m not about to get in trouble for it lol

  • ullon_lucas Cristopher Ullon Lucas (@ullon_lucas) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Fix the ******* N64 Games!

  • LittileMart littleMart games (@LittileMart) reported

    @Fercho_OwO @NintendoAmerica Dear Nintendo This sucks ***. I own all the original nintendo 64 games so instead of buying your **** service I'm just going to emulator them. Have a nice ******* day. P.S. I'm canceling my Switch online membership.

  • Adam__Pitts Adam Pitts (@Adam__Pitts) reported

    @AliceMoon1877 @JoeMerrick If Apriballs were a prize for these competitons there would also be more interest since Nintendo never gave us a good legit way to get them in-game that didn’t have broken odds

  • Robopuppyz Robo (@Robopuppyz) reported

    @DripGodNevada Are you aware that free emulation of nintendo games actually runs them better than what nintendo makes you pay for?? Mother 3 3d all stars input lag paid subscriptions pokemon heartgold 150 dollars on ebay morally correct morally correct

  • sebitacanales Seba Canales (@sebitacanales) reported

    @NintendoAmerica FIX THE N64 GAMES, GOD DAMN IT

  • lawnear01 Yaldabaoth (@lawnear01) reported

    @markl1109 @NintendoAmerica True. But those games costs a lot more. Plus the ****** online experience in some games, and, aparently, performance issues with the emulated games. If we're going to pay more we need MORE and BETTER online experience and quality performance on every game. The old nintendo seal.

  • PixelsSprites Pixels & Sprites (@PixelsSprites) reported

    I can’t believe how much Nintendo forked the N64 emulation. Frame rates down the toilet and controls not working. And this is what we get for a premium 50 bucks! Who let this release on its current state?!? Be better #Nintendo! #NINTENDO64 #Switch

  • origamigoose_ shino simp account (@origamigoose_) reported

    @jtrooper6 and it's for this exact reason (that Nintendo has not done anything meaningful to fix special spam) that I fear that splatoon 3 will not be a big enough departure from this game's flawed design where special spam, often but not always, = wins

  • KingBoyGamer King (@KingBoyGamer) reported

    @Jake_5040 @NintendoUK Dude you have 0 bars that's not entirely Nintendo's problem

  • DavidGXtube DavidGX (@DavidGXtube) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Your terrible service isn't even worth $20, I'm not paying more than double for a few ancient, poorly emulated ROMs.

  • Jake_5040 Jake 🌹🇬🇧 (@Jake_5040) reported

    @NintendoAmerica lower the damn price ! you don't improve the service people will avoid buying and these games aren't worth double the extra price

  • nintendoenjoyer Average Nintendo Enjoyer (@nintendoenjoyer) reported

    @ModernVintageG I was disgruntled by this video because you are a video game developer and yet you are giving a wink to people, encouraging them to emulate. Nintendo worked hard to get these games out, give them time. Don't encourage people to steal their games because of 2ms lag.

  • ToxicKitz ToxicKitz (@ToxicKitz) reported

    @GhostRobo @BeatemupsWood should i wait to buy the Nintendo Online Expansion pass and just buy the Animal Crossing DLC or should i hope they fix the emulation ? #NintendoSwitchOnline

  • sourcerpan Clement PanPan (@sourcerpan) reported

    @kirbolotl The fact that you aren't skipping frames tells me that it's more of an issue on the Nintendo server...

  • thomystic3 Stephen Cheney (@thomystic3) reported

    @NintendoAmerica I don't think this price is too high. I just think people feel that way because they were spoiled by the service's original price being too low.