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.