Is Nintendo Switch Online down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Nintendo Switch Online right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Nintendo Switch Online continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are can't connect, lag or disconnects, can't join a game, cloud saves not loading, can't log in, party / voice chat, website / app down and files won't sync. Those are the options the report button offers for Nintendo Switch Online, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Nintendo Switch Online specifically, Nintendo Switch Online has separate backend systems for matchmaking, cloud storage, and classic game streaming that can fail independently, and regional server routing means one player's region may be affected while another's works. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Nintendo Switch Online, try connecting to a different game's online mode, and check your cloud save status in System Settings. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Nintendo Switch Online's side. Specifically: avoid repeatedly attempting to join matches or force-syncing cloud saves, as this can queue failed requests and delay recovery. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Nintendo Switch Online does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe nintendo.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Nintendo Switch Online says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at www.nintendo.co.jp/netinfo/en_US/index.html, and it is linked further up this page. That is Nintendo Switch Online's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Nintendo Switch Online or nintendo.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Nintendo Switch Online's own support, not us.