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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

The graph below depicts the number of Nintendo Switch Online reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Nintendo Switch Online Outage Chart 12/06/2025 18:45

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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 (55%)

    Online Play (55%)

  2. Sign in (35%)

    Sign in (35%)

  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:

  • jameVEVO jame (@jameVEVO) reported

    @SackboyFX I wouldn't buy this, even if i had 0 problems with nintendo, but because i do, its a capital NO

  • Speady99 Hunter Gerace (@Speady99) reported

    It's bizarre to me that gamers will turn a blind eye to Sony potentially locking off access to all digital-only content on their older hardware, yet they ***** about Nintendo pulling digital games after a specific date. It's the same issue. Preservation is important.

  • LethalCadence Lethal Cadence (@LethalCadence) reported

    Real talk: controller “drift” is a serious problem resulting from the game companies cutting corners. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft should readily, easily, instantly and with no questions asked replace any controller afflicted with drift.

  • andrewdbowers Andrew Bowers (@andrewdbowers) reported

    All the hype about a Switch Pro and our regular Switch sits untouched by both kids and adults because all four JoyCons have massive drift issues, one after it's been repaired already. Get me some JoyCon Pros and we'll talk @NintendoAmerica

  • MadameMahala Summer Walker (@MadameMahala) reported

    @NintendoAmerica @NianticLabs Fix @PokemonGoApp first we are STRUGGLING

  • Steve_MWS Steve MWS (comms open) (@Steve_MWS) reported

    The only way I will buy a switch pro is if it can run korok forest in 60 fps, fix nintendo online, and make me a sandwich.

  • wilburhookshand IntellectuallyDishonestDawg (@wilburhookshand) reported

    nintendo, you support animal crossing as a game as a service, you should 1000% do this with breath of the wild

  • QuincyS47539278 🥶FUCKNIGGA🥶 (@QuincyS47539278) reported

    @DeoScott @joellogic90pt @IGN Like my previous comment, if the screen is different then it wouldn't be a problem. For example oled. If Nintendo wants to wow us something has to change. If they can't do 4k then that's fine though disappointing as 720 does bother me

  • NitwitThief The Mighty and Stupid Tenshi-sama (@NitwitThief) reported

    @ActionCoaster Than what Nintendo coulda attempted. Clyde Mandelin/Tomato is a pro in every sense. And it is shown as quickly as him using the original Mother 2/EarthBound English font for the patch, plus actually getting peeps to fix bugs from the original

  • Michaelarran The Ever Curious Mike 💙 (@Michaelarran) reported

    @NintendoUK @NianticLabs Looks great. Howver, why is your support service charging to repair a Switch power adapter that's less than a year old? We have sent emails, but are getting no replies.

  • bojak90 bojak90 (@bojak90) reported

    @Oceaniz96 Honestly, until Nintendo show it off, I’m not going to get too excited. I kind of hope it’s like the New 3DS where performance got better even on old titles but like you said, those titles were optimized for a different chip set so that might not happen or they could have issues

  • CodalinaSama Codalina (@CodalinaSama) reported

    @Ray_Scullz @Fobwashed @Nibellion Same here, With DLSS its possible. What I'd like Nintendo to do is make a separately sold custom Dock with a more powerful SoC inside to push things to higher resolutions so that power consumption doesn't become a problem for the handheld SoC.

  • NintendoShame Nintendo Shame (@NintendoShame) reported

    It's been 34 days since the last game was added to the Nintendo Switch Online service

  • nevetni Nev (@nevetni) reported

    After about a million issues, I finally got my Nintendo switch hooked up to be able to play on stream! What games should I play??

  • Dizzy08436730 Daisy (@Dizzy08436730) reported

    @JayBari_ Xbox is a joke online. Terrible servers I've never had this much trouble with. Nintendo even has more stable connection.

  • Hi_There_How Wolftacodude (@Hi_There_How) reported

    @ollaxe @Dippahh_ @engadgetgaming Nintendo should get their quality control under check though. Never had this problem growing up: Not with the GameCube or Wii. But with the switch, even their official controllers break in less than a month.

  • Kermakatti Kermis (@Kermakatti) reported

    There's nothing quite like going to Nintendo's recommended links section and having it crash your console entirely

  • senorguar guarle (@senorguar) reported

    @ipepsi_co @alekisaaa @engadgetgaming The thing has the exact same drifting problems as the nintendo controller. Sony is also getting sued for pretty much the same thing. That joystick is only rated for I believe 500 hours. The funny part is that it's the exact same one as in the Switch.

  • Adelgary Adelgary (@Adelgary) reported

    @devilninja777 @cifilter @Mrsamericanhodl That's what I always heard (well, read), but unfortunately I never had a Super Nintendo. I got the SNES Mini few years ago which has EarthBound on it, I started playing it but it didn't grab my attention for long (I have this problem with almost everything in recent years)

  • dharbin33 Soulstar (@dharbin33) reported

    @TitanfallBlog What's funny is ea was blaming sony, Microsoft and nintendo and saying it was their servers causing the issues last week. Funny how they turned it around.

  • CartridgeGames Cart McCloud (@CartridgeGames) reported

    @Hylianhero777 DLSS still sounds too advanced for Nintendo so I hope they're not wrong since a lot of people will be disappointed even if nintendo didn't say anything about it. Was just hoping for them to fix the bottleneck to get Switch up to 1080p for botw, still mostly what I'm expecting

  • KayrBayrTweets 🏳️‍🌈 KayrBayr 🏳️‍🌈 (@KayrBayrTweets) reported

    @Kotaku so what do people who have the original switch do? No way to upgrade or anything? we'll need to shell out AGAIN for upgrades? It wouldnt be much of a bother if Nintendo had a price decrease at some point... But they dont.. They should fix there joycons first.. but no, money money

  • Padderooz Michel Dinel (@Padderooz) reported

    Have 4 ps4 controllers. They ALL have drift issues (drift is strongest in recent controllers). Never before have I had this problem in all the console controllers I ever had. Except Nintendo Switch where the drift started even earlier than PS4. #theydontmakethemliketheyusedto

  • DM_Drakkoli Voice Actor Drakkoli #BLM (@DM_Drakkoli) reported

    So, with the Switch Pro coming out, does @NintendoAmerica have any plans on addressing the issues with joycon drift? Or are they still of the opinion that "it's not a thing, and if it was it's your fault"?

  • Eric_the_dread Eric (@Eric_the_dread) reported

    @TexasLegend1990 @AmusingLuis Nintendo Network was the name of their online service for the 3DS and Wii U, two discontinued pieces of hardware. It’s successor is Nintendo Online.

  • Grozrottok Baconsoap (@Grozrottok) reported

    So is it like, international bad video game service decision day? Discord, xbox, sony, what new stupid and/or obsolete thing will nintendo find that they haven't already done? I'm guessing... Brick thousands of switches with some kind of update that wasn't properly tested

  • its_takubo takubo (@its_takubo) reported

    @32DaCrow @K4waiiB3N @NintendoAmerica yes they fix them for free, but thry should fix the issue without consumers needing to constantly send their joy cons in for repair, so they can use their switch more. nintendo acknowledged that it was a manufacturing error, and they need to fix it.

  • Mastourii11 Mastouri Aziz (@Mastourii11) reported

    @Kotaku Nintendo try copy playstation and Xbox .. when they release normal console . They make it pro one. the company knew you will gain a lot money 💰 they will never fix what people wants to fix .

  • KBABZonTV KBABZ (@KBABZonTV) reported

    @stevesaylor Yeah, Mixer was a streaming service, which Xbox is only tangentially connected to. Discord is how many gamers on PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo prefer to communicate over the hardware's chat, so this is a huge get for them.

  • lewis_whovian HypeWall WhoVian (@lewis_whovian) reported

    @supersophz @Andrxw452 @Arcanam8 Ye I feel like forced cross play should be turned off or have a feature where we can choose to go up against certain consoles ie Xbox/PS SeriesX/S/PS5/PC Nintendo switch/Mobile..... issue resolved