Nintendo closing eShop in rolling blackout to ease congestion
It hasn’t been a kind Christmas for Nintendo with the eShop and other company services experiencing downtime since Christmas Day.
Now in an attempt to get things running up at full steam once again Nintendo will actually be closing the eShop during certain hours of the day. In a statement on Twitter, Nintendo of Europe has confirmed that the eShop will be closed between 10pm and 10am CET.
For Aussies that means the Nintendo eShop will be down between 8am – 8pm EADT (5am – 5pm AWDT) daily until these issues are resolved.
With the current load issues it seems Nintendo has to allow only half of the world access to the store to keep it up. We suspect when the store is turned off for us it’ll be available for the Americas. Being linked to the European store does have it’s downsides.
This whole debacle has exposed those just how weak and inflexible Nintendo’s online services are. It would appear that all of Nintendo’s services are linked around the world to a central system, downtime or load from one region and the whole thing crashes.
Nintendo will need to step up and take online just a little bit more seriously in the future, it’s a bad look.
This whole thing has been so disappointing.
This just goes to show what happens when you screw with the norm for pokemon.
I mean waiting months to transfer previous gen pokemon come on
They don’t have to step up. No one can handle these things well. Just look at every blizzard launch. The GTA V multiplayer launch. It doesn’t seem to matter how much money you throw at servers.
The business decision will always be to have enough servers to deal with the normal usage. You can afford to buy an extra 1000 servers, just for the 2 days around Christmas (unless of course you were to rent them, maybe).
The one good thing is that people are wanting to use the service, that only bodes well for nintendo’s future
can’t afford**
Its not affecting me on my Wii U in Australia. Maybe its just 3ds cause it doesn’t work.