Nintendo’s Switch Consoles Went Offline For Hours

Nintendo’s online service experienced had some serious issues recently, with approximately nine hours outage.

The Nintendo’s Japanese-language Twitter account says network services doesn’t work on Switch and appologised for the inconvenience.

Unfortunately, we're having some issues with our network services. We're looking to rectify the situation as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience. https://t.co/O9u3MXDZG6

— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) March 17, 2020

All network services suffered during the interval 4:56AM to 1:45PM ET, when the Nintendo eShop was also down for Switch users from US and UK. In the latter, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s online functionality failed to work as well.

Things didn’t go well for Xbox Live either, a couple of days ago when it crashed for about two hours. Users had no luck with its gaming chat either, as its services were not working properly.