eShop currently down for maintainence

Whether this is related to the upcoming 3DS update or not, I’m not 100% certain, but it’s certain that as of right now the eShop is undergoing some form of maintainance, giving the standard “please try again later” message. It’s worth noting that Nintendo said the service would be temporarily halting around the time of the update to have it ready for all the new features, and the update is scheduled to hit “by December 8th”, so if this isn’t related I’d be pretty surprised.

The question is: Does this mean we may see the update his a day early? Or maybe even a few hours early?

Thanks to Franco for the news tip on our Facebook wall!