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[Hideous Snake]

A Google Cloud Outage has taken Nintendo Switch Online services offline.

According to the official Nintendo network status page, the service is "unavailable at this time". There's no other information provided by the company regarding any sort of return time. That's likely due to it being a third-party issue.

Network Maintenance Information / Operational Status

 

[PauloRoberto]

At the worst possible time (for Google). I can imagine Nintendo analysing Cloud alternatives at this very moment, so to speak...

 

[Fake]

I hope those digital cards don't rely on Google to work.

 

[LakeOf9]

Can't believe I lived to see the day that Nintendo is blaming Google for network issues

 

[Hideous Snake]

Can't believe I lived to see the day that Nintendo is blaming Google for network issues

Nintendo and online. Two things you should always be sure that they will screw eventually

 

[March Climber]

 

[nial]

I want my $600 back.

 

[LakeOf9]

I want my $600 back.

Bowser spent it already

 

[MSduderino]

Yikes, dawg. I'm about to get off work and was itching for markar.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Yikes, dawg. I'm about to get off work and was itching for markar.

That's a message from god then to save you the pain of getting stomped

 

[Skyfox]

I hope those digital cards don't rely on Google to work.

They do. I wasn't able to play a bunch of "virtual card" games that used to be digital titles I own, yesterday.

 

[BlackTron]

I wonder if that's why I couldn't play MK online. Ended up working after restarting the Switch so who knows.

I've certainly gotten more errors and glitches on 2 in general than I ever did on 1.

 

[Xcell Miguel]

They do. I wasn't able to play a bunch of "virtual card" games that used to be digital titles I own, yesterday.

You can play digital games offline if your console is set as your main one and the licence thing is enabled (new setting since the virtual cards).

I had no issue playing Splatoon 3 online yesterday night (around the time this thread was created), maybe it did not affect Europe ?

 

[CuteFaceJay]

They do. I wasn't able to play a bunch of "virtual card" games that used to be digital titles I own, yesterday.

That's unlucky, I'm just using the old system still where it checks to make sure I can play the title (Looks like Nintendo self hosting license auth) and it was letting me play Zelda while I was waiting on MK servers to come back.

I've yet to load a card into the system as I'm just going to title option "Download Data" rather than "Load card"

 

[Goalus]

No one is forcing Nintendo to use Google.
It's their and their customers' loss if they don't want to use better alternatives, like Azure.

 

[RoboFu]

I've had no issues.. must be in one specific area ?

 

[K' Dash]

At the worst possible time (for Google). I can imagine Nintendo analysing Cloud alternatives at this very moment, so to speak...

Lol.

You clearly don't know shit about cloud services, outages like this happen to all of them and they're pretty well documented for the public to see.

Migrating is too complex and expensive to do just because the provider had an outage, and probably the new provider will go through the same issue at some point during the time you use them.

Not worth it and not anything to be mad about, it is what it is.

 

[Fake]

They do. I wasn't able to play a bunch of "virtual card" games that used to be digital titles I own, yesterday.

Thats suck.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Lol.

You clearly don't know shit about cloud services, outages like this happen to all of them and they're pretty well documented for the public to see.

Migrating is too complex and expensive to do just because the provider had an outage, and probably the new provider will go through the same issue at some point during the time you use them.

Not worth it and not anything to be mad about, it is what it is.

After 20 years of experience as a backend developer / solutiins arquitect, hearing from a simple forum member tha a company with billions in cash would not even analyse alternatives / backup plans because 'shit's gonna happen anyway' is one of the most idiotic things ive read this week. Ignored.

 

[Branded]

Yikes, dawg. I'm about to get off work and was itching for markar.

We call it makawo.

 

[K' Dash]

After 20 years of experience as a backend developer / solutiins arquitect, hearing from a simple forum member tha a company with billions in cash would not even analyse alternatives / backup plans because 'shit's gonna happen anyway' is one of the most idiotic things ive read this week. Ignored.

I worry about your employer if your first solution due to an outage is to change providers and migrate, your peers would laugh at your face, I know I am.

Also, you never said anything about redundancy or backups, we don't know their architecture and wether they have their back covered using the right services and tools, we can only speculate.

I also happen to be a backend dev with 15+ years of experience

 

[justiceiro]

Oh, so that why meet was weird yesterday.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Nintendo needs to offer free Google Stadia games because of this as a way of apologizing.

 

[daxgame]

Google Cloud Service Health

status.cloud.google.com

perhaps solved already?

 

[AJUMP23]

You can choose between Google or Amazon for servers for a major platform.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I worry about your employer if your first solution due to an outage is to change providers and migrate, your peers would laugh at your face, I know I am.

Also, you never said anything about redundancy or backups, we don't know their architecture and wether they have their back covered using the right services and tools, we can only speculate.

I also happen to be a backend dev with 15+ years of experience

 

[tmlDan]

At the worst possible time (for Google). I can imagine Nintendo analysing Cloud alternatives at this very moment, so to speak...

 

[K' Dash]

Very idiotic indeed

 

[PauloRoberto]

Well, if Nintendo wants to be taken seriously online, be 100% dependant of one provider is not a good way to begin with

 

[diffusionx]

This took down a lot of sites, not just Nintendo.

 

[tmlDan]

Well, if Nintendo wants to be taken seriously online, be 100% dependant of one provider is not a good way to begin with

Everything has issues, including amazon servers, a tiny outage wont result in them completely shifting providers lol

 

[PauloRoberto]

Everything has issues, including amazon servers, a tiny outage wont result in them completely shifting providers lol

You used 'shifting providers', not me ;-)

 

[ReBurn]

Well, if Nintendo wants to be taken seriously online, be 100% dependant of one provider is not a good way to begin with

Duplicating infrastructure on multiple cloud platforms isn't something most companies would do. Unless there is some guaranteed service level agreement for uptime or people will die without a service most organizations wouldn't make the investment. They just leave the service offline until it comes back up.

The other platforms go down without failing over to a different network. People complain but they deal with it. No reason why Nintendo should be any different.