{"id":125451,"date":"2022-06-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-132490"},"modified":"2022-06-05T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T07:00:00","slug":"switch-network-failure-prevents-users-from-accessing-eshop-and-digital-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/05\/switch-network-failure-prevents-users-from-accessing-eshop-and-digital-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Network Failure Prevents Users From Accessing eShop And Digital Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65b62743a4dd3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65b62743a4dd3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Nintendo apologises for the inconvenience<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>21 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65b62743a4dd3\/nintendo-switch.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been having online difficulties with your Nintendo Switch earlier today, it&#8217;s not just you. Nintendo&#8217;s network services have been experiencing some problems &#8211; supposedly preventing users from not only accessing the Switch eShop but also launching applications and certain digital games from the home menu.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo appears to have resolved this problem after a number of hours &#8211; issuing the following notices over time on its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendo_cs\/status\/1533267091540758529\">customer support Twitter account<\/a>:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u73fe\u5728\u3001Nintendo Switch\u3067\u30c0\u30a6\u30f3\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30bd\u30d5\u30c8\u306a\u3069\u306e\u3054\u5229\u7528\u3067\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u969c\u5bb3\u304c\u767a\u751f\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u7533\u3057\u8a33\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093\u304c\u3001\u5fa9\u65e7\u307e\u3067\u3057\u3070\u3089\u304f\u304a\u5f85\u3061\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cZM8zMVoul\">https:\/\/t.co\/cZM8zMVoul<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u4efb\u5929\u5802\u30b5\u30dd\u30fc\u30c8 (@nintendo_cs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendo_cs\/status\/1533227348262129664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Currently, a network failure is occurring due to the use of download software on Nintendo Switch. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please wait for a while until the restoration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Currently, Nintendo Switch is carrying out emergency maintenance of the Nintendo eShop. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please wait for a while until the maintenance is completed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The troubles related to the use of download software, etc. that occurred around 05:30 on June 5 have been recovered. We apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo dataminer <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1533230256479473665\">OatmealDome<\/a> goes into a bit more detail about what exactly was going on behind the scenes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Nintendo eShop]<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Nintendo\u2019s \u201ce-license\u201d (DRM) servers are having problems today. This problem appears to have been ongoing for a few hours now. I\u2019ve seen reports of users not being able to access the eShop or start digital software due to license checks failing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[Server Down]<\/p>\n<p>The servers for &#8220;Use of downloadable software&#8221; are down. Please wait until the issue is fixed.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ServerDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ServerDown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fynCOtNMWK\">pic.twitter.com\/fynCOtNMWK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 NinStatusBot (@NinStatusBot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinStatusBot\/status\/1533225862639779845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Did you experience any problems accessing your games earlier today? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendo_cs\/status\/1533227348262129664\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendo_cs\/status\/1533227348262129664\">twitter.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1533230256479473665\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1533230256479473665\">twitter.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2022-06-06T03:54:28+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo apologises for the inconvenience by Liam Doolan 21 hours ago Image: Nintendo Life If you&#8217;ve been having online difficulties with your Nintendo Switch earlier today, it&#8217;s not just you. Nintendo&#8217;s network services have been experiencing some problems &#8211; supposedly preventing users from not only accessing the Switch eShop but also launching applications and certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}