Nintendo Schedules Maintenance for Multiple Consoles and Games

Maintenance for a few popular Nintendo games as well as each of the company’s main consoles and [...]

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Maintenance for a few popular Nintendo games as well as each of the company's main consoles and handhelds has been scheduled for the next few days.

The maintenance that's been scheduled and listed on Nintendo's status and maintenance page for the Nintendo Network detailed various dates and times when certain services would be unavailable. Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Pokemon Sun and Moon and their Ultra variants will all be affected within the next two days. The 3DS and the Wii U make up the bulk of the system maintenance, but the Switch will be affected on Jan. 9.

The services that'll be affected during system maintenance weren't listed, but check the schedule below if you plan on doing some Nintendo gaming within the next few days.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (3DS)

  • During the maintenance window, all network services will be unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Monday, January 8, 2018 5 :00 PM - Monday, January 8, 2018 7 :00 PM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: All network services

Pokémon Sun / Moon / Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (3DS)

  • During the maintenance window, all network services will be unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Monday, January 8, 2018 5 :00 PM - Monday, January 8, 2018 7 :00 PM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: All network services

Online play of some software (Switch, Wii U, 3DS)

  • Some network services may become unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4 :50 PM - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 7 :00 PM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: certain network services

Online play of some software (Wii U)

  • Some network services may become unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8 :00 PM - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10 :00 PM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: certain network services

Online play of some software (Wii U, 3DS)

  • Some network services may become unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10 :00 PM - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12 :00 AM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: certain network services

Online play of some software (3DS)

  • Some network services may become unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5 :00 PM - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 7 :00 PM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: certain network services
  • Some network services may become unavailable.
  • Date and time: From Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11 :00 PM - Thursday, January 11, 2018 12 :30 AM Pacific Time
  • Affected Services: certain network services