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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 12/16/2025 04:15

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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 (53%)

    Online Play (53%)

  2. Sign in (37%)

    Sign in (37%)

  3. Matchmaking (5%)

    Matchmaking (5%)

  4. Glitches (5%)

    Glitches (5%)

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:

  • ColynProd Colyn (@ColynProd) reported

    @NintendoAmerica I will if you stop deleting trees every single trailer and you fix the grass. The game looks very promising but please even FLY ME OUT to Japan and I could fix it.

  • MrAndyCutler Andy Cutler (@MrAndyCutler) reported

    @NintendoUK £120 to fix a Switch where the usb charging socket pins were bent after only ever being used in the dock…seriously Nintendo?

  • Izzy_saur 🌻Izzy 🍒 (@Izzy_saur) reported

    @iFireMonkey How about the default hair glitch on Nintendo switch?! I can't use like half my skins because their default hairs are poking through the skin

  • FelipeFCabral Felipe Cabral (@FelipeFCabral) reported

    @cultofthelamb Please fix the PT-BR in Nintendo Switch.

  • AwkwardAric Louis (@AwkwardAric) reported from Houston, Texas

    The problem with an "understood you," is that YOU just don't understand ME -- comprende? Does that nintendo enough, for you, Ms. McGillicuddy?

  • ColynProd Colyn (@ColynProd) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Please fix the boxart it looks like dogshit with the yellow thing

  • Lilly13595 Lilly (@Lilly13595) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Its so sad that i cant claim the icons with my phone. My switch is broken and im getting a new one next month....

  • Decoy_Snake 🎮 (@Decoy_Snake) reported

    @FletchyTweets @pyromanc4 Based on what? That they'll buy more publishers/get more stuff on Gamepass, which is a fine service but it isn't shifting units right now despite them having consoles more readily available. While console exclusives are still in demand there will be a place for Sony & Nintendo.

  • Cpt_BAZ Captain BAZ ᔦꙭᔨ ᔦꙭᔨ ᔦꙭᔨ (@Cpt_BAZ) reported

    @Unkn0wn_Art1st_ @nintendolife Still not legit or confirmed. Nintendo Life is a ClickBait account so again not buying it and hope people don't get their hearts broken when it's proven that Shiver is Female.

  • bryanjedi82 Bryan (@bryanjedi82) reported

    @JuiceMan_V @RGT_85 I’d say the only thing I kinda take issue with is a game that is multi platform but one console gets preferential treatment when it comes to dlc. Destiny comes to mind. You can’t be mad at something like Bloodborne or Bayo2/3. Sony and Nintendo paid for the dev of those games.

  • ChekeHs Captain Falcon (@ChekeHs) reported

    @BulbaWhat98 @PhantomJosh18 Not defending anyone but if you think the issue is “Nintendo characters getting in a Nintendo game” then you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the issues tbh

  • ProtoManiaTV Mark Carwash (@ProtoManiaTV) reported

    @IonMannon Would definitely fix Nintendo’s over reliance on existing IP,

  • ChowderGumball TazoGumballChowder XENOBLADE 3 HYPE 🗝✨🌟 (@ChowderGumball) reported from Sugar Land, Texas

    @Blueisland1111 @Nintendeal Why??? Nintendo has no problem restocking copies in retail stores for all their other 1st party games so I don’t see why they can’t do it for Xenoblade games

  • MYNAMESTOAD MYNAMESTOAD ( Worshiper of big man) (@MYNAMESTOAD) reported

    Sooooo I’ve spent months looking for a reasonably priced version of Pokémon platinum, and then I just gave up and spent five mins setting up an emulator. Nintendo, fix yo game

  • JarylGaren Jaryl (@JarylGaren) reported

    is it just me, or is Nintendo of Europe's website having some issues with logging in? I wanted to buy a Wii U game on it, and it keeps doing the "we're logging you in" thing in the top right corner of the page

  • OTG_Nuzlockes OTG197 (@OTG_Nuzlockes) reported

    @DGpapabear @ZzShy @trueheoh Point being, banning a broken character or discussing banning them in a game that is set in stone with patches is not a reason the fgc is not gonna take Smash seriously. They dont take Smash seriously cuz its different from traditional fg, and its Nintendo kiddie ****. That's it.

  • MAVL0T MAVLOT (@MAVL0T) reported

    @HueyJackson_ Dude same, and I honestly feel bad because the game is fun and competitively good… but issues like Steve and 0 support from Nintendo just make it so hard

  • _Spraynard Spraynard Kruger (@_Spraynard) reported

    @toph_bbq @LiquidHbox There was a CEO like 7 or 8 years ago where over half of the Top 8 for MK10 were Tanya players. NRS nerfed her after. Same thing with Tekken 7 and Kazumi. Nintendo doesn't care about the competitive scene enough to fix this though. So we're definitely headed that direction, lol.

  • PinkertonHadley Pinkerton Hadley (@PinkertonHadley) reported

    @cultofthelamb Why would you release a game this broken? A lot of the hype you guys built is tainted. I actually got a refund from Nintendo so I must not be the only one

  • ernst_lubitch laura (1944) dir. otto preminger (@ernst_lubitch) reported

    do you think that King Kong/Donkey Kong lawsuit shaped how Nintendo deals with legal issue? like they just went oh we could be the big ******* company suing people now

  • BulbaWhat98 BulbaWhat98 | XC3 Ch 4 Early (@BulbaWhat98) reported

    @PhantomJosh18 Exactly, but tell that to the Smash fandom that couldn’t accept Crash not getting in while upset that Nintendo characters in a Nintendo fighting game got some spots

  • rdlf2048 Rodolfo Ferreira (@rdlf2048) reported

    The @playstation store removed Cyberpunk bc it was broken & unplayable. Same should happen to #CultoftheLamb on #NintendoSwitch. Corrupted saves, terrible frame rate & animation but in @devolverdigital's eyes it was good to go. SHAME ON @NintendoAmerica for selling a broken game

  • TheNurikabeBand Sun_Chip (@TheNurikabeBand) reported

    No one’s gonna want to hear this but a healthy meta for any competitive game requires new patches to fix the game and unbalanced mechanics, however since Nintendo will not be doing so, the only option is to ban the unhealthy characters.

  • peachyogurt__ peachyogurt (@peachyogurt__) reported

    @NintendoAmerica brother nintendo my joycon is still completely broken and doesnt work. please delay all games until i have the 14000$ needed to procure a new one or i will cry! thank you

  • ItsNeon2401 Neon (@ItsNeon2401) reported

    35. 3D All Stars was a fine deal, it's only issue was false scarcity on Nintendo's part

  • MrPapaveraceae 👾🤖🪐🚀 (@MrPapaveraceae) reported

    @LinusTech If it wasn't for the NES, the video game market crash might not have recovered. Nintendo set the standard when the market was being over saturated with poor quality games and systems. Game carts were not being regulated and held to a quality standard. Nintendo changed that.

  • samtendo09 Samtendo09 (@samtendo09) reported

    @PownicMania5000 I do think that Nintendo is way to relient on nostalgia to a fault Game Freak did the same error regarding Kanto content, such aa making Kanto Pokémon the only returning Pokémon alongside Garbodor and Melmetal to get a Gigantamax form.

  • OTG_Nuzlockes OTG197 (@OTG_Nuzlockes) reported

    @DGpapabear @ZzShy @trueheoh The fgc is not going to fault Smash for looking into if a character is a problem/needs a ban in a game that no longer receives updates. The reason they dont fw smash is simply cuz its different and kiddie Nintendo ****...

  • Leonardocom0 Leonardo Alves (@Leonardocom0) reported

    @cultofthelamb I understand that they are working to fix the bugs, however, I believe that if the language bug in Nintendo Switch was fixed soon, it would already be reduced by 80% of the community's headache.

  • Videajames JAMES ✍️💀👻 (@Videajames) reported

    i think today i'm going to go through my old issues of nintendo power. i've got almost every issue from the last 6 or 7 years of the magazine's run. i'm missing the final issue tho because my subscription ran out literally the month before it came out!! i'm still salty about this