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Is Nintendo Switch Online down right now?

Checked 4 minutes ago

No — Nintendo Switch Online is working normally
League of Legends, Valorant, GeForce NOW, Cloudflare are all reporting problems at the same time. Cloudflare sits underneath a lot of gaming services, so this is likely one upstream problem rather than several separate ones.
If you are having trouble anyway, the problem is more likely to be between you and Nintendo Switch Online than at Nintendo Switch Online itself. Two things worth checking, in order: your connection under load — a line that idles at 20 ms can jump to 300 ms while something uploads, which drops you from sessions and looks exactly like a server fault — and whether the people you play with see the same thing, since a service can be healthy in your region and unwell in theirs. Run a connection check.

The last 48 hours

Nothing wrong in the last 48 hours.

We have only been watching Nintendo Switch Online for 29 hours, so there may be problems we did not see.

Longer record

100%Uptime, 48 hours
0Problems seen
—Longest
—Last problem
Daily uptime, last 2 days

This longer record is here so the 48-hour picture above can mean something — without it we could tell you a problem happened, but not whether that is normal for Nintendo Switch Online.

We have only been recording Nintendo Switch Online for 2 days, so treat these figures as provisional.

Outage history

Nothing recorded yet. This page fills in as we observe Nintendo Switch Online over time.

What Nintendo Switch Online actually publishes

Nintendo publishes a JSON feed covering Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Wii U, 3DS, Wii, DS, web, iOS and Android. It reports two separate things: live operational issues, and scheduled maintenance windows with start and end times.

Matching the symptom to the cause

Online play unavailable at a predictable time
Nintendo schedules maintenance in advance and publishes the window. Most Switch Online interruptions are planned rather than faults.
Can't reach the eShop but games work online
Nintendo tracks the store and online play separately.

Where this reading can mislead you

Nintendo's feed lists maintenance windows from the past, present and future in one list. We only count a window that is happening right now — a window that ended this morning or starts next Tuesday must not colour the board. Reading that feed naively is how other trackers show Switch Online as degraded when it's fine.

When the status page says green and you still can't play

Status pages report the vendor's view of their own service, and they lag real outages — often by many minutes, sometimes by hours, because a human usually has to confirm before anything is posted. They also can't see the two things most likely to be wrong at your end.

The first is your own connection under load. A line that idles at 20 ms can jump to 300 ms the moment something starts uploading, which drops you from sessions and looks exactly like a server fault. Your plan speed says nothing about this; it's called bufferbloat and almost nobody measures it.

The second is where everyone else in your group is. A service can be healthy in your region and unwell in theirs, and if one person is hosting, their problem is everyone's problem.

Playing with people elsewhere

Nintendo Switch Online being fine where you are does not mean it is fine for everyone in your group. The live dashboard resolves status against each person's own region, and will tell you which of your friends is in an affected area — plus who has the connection to host, which is usually a different question from who has the fastest plan.