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Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of September 29, 2024 is now available.

A little bit of downtime is currently scheduled for all of Nintendo’s systems. Things should be wrapped up by the start of the week.

Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of September 29, 2024:

Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of September 22, 2024 is now available.

As of now there’s one session officially scheduled for this week. However, there’s another a bit of downtime planned a bit further down the road. 

Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of September 22, 2024:

Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of July 7, 2024 is now available.

As of now there’s only one session on the docket. The Switch, 3DS, and Wii U eShops will be impacted for a couple of hours.

Here’s the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of July 7, 2024:

Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of June 30, 2024 is now available.

Outside of previously announced eShop maintenance in July, another session has been added to the schedule. This will affect Switch specifically.

Here’s the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of June 30, 2024:

unobtainable shiny pokemon

Nintendo recently announced the almost-complete closure of 3DS and Wii U online services on April 8 – and just about every single game is losing online functionality on that day. Pokemon Bank, however, is the exception. It won’t remain open forever, but eventually Nintendo will cut the cord on all of its online services. When that happens, Pokemon Bank will become unusable and it will be impossible to transfer Pokemon from previous generations to the Switch.

More than a few Pokemon can only be Shiny on Game Boy Advance, DS, and 3DS titles – on Switch, there’s no way to Shiny hunt any of these Pokemon (at least, not yet). Today, we’re going over a list of Pokemon whose Shiny forms will become unobtainable once Pokemon Bank closes. Again, we’re not entirely sure when this will be, but if you’re looking to save some cool Shiny Pokemon now might be a good time to start hunting.

3DS and Wii U online play – and overall online functionality – will soon come to an end. Earlier this week, Nintendo gave fans a final date as April 8 for shutdown timing.

Many Nintendo fans are playing Switch these days, but that doesn’t mean we should forget about 3DS and Wii U. While 3DS was the more popular system, Wii U had its own userbase and plenty of online games.

With the shutdown date looming, what are some of your memories playing online with 3DS and Wii U? Miiverse was taken offline further back, but what’d you think about that service? Let us know in the comments.

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Steel Diver Sub Wars online play shutdown

3DS and Wii U online play will still be supported for a few more months, but not for Steel Diver: Sub Wars.

In a notice posted on its website, Nintendo explained that the game has already gone offline. That feature has actually been unavailable for a number of months now. Nintendo conducted emergency maintenance starting on September 4, 2023, but hasn’t able to get things back up and running. That means online play is finished for Steel Divers: Sub Wars and the game has been discontinued.

Nintendo is continuing to update its maintenance schedule for the week of October 1, 2023, and even more sessions are now planned. Five different periods are currently lined up over the next few days

Here’s the full maintenance schedule for the week of October 1, 2023:

We have Nintendo’s maintenance schedule for the week of September 24, 2023. A couple of additional sessions are now planned for the start of October aside from what we reported on last week.

Here’s the full maintenance schedule for the week of September 24, 2023:

Nintendo has shared its latest maintenance schedule for the week of July 30, 2023. Things aren’t quite as busy as they were last week, but there will still be some downtime for Switch, Wii U, and 3DS.

Here’s the full maintenance schedule for the week of July 30, 2023:


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