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The Nintendo eShop is taking a hammering from Christmas crowds, resulting in the service going downwardly. Nintendo actually issued a warning v days agone that this very affair might happen, but there is no doubtfulness that plenty of gamers are feeling frustrated correct now. This is pretty much guaranteed to happen at this time of yr, unfortunately.

Nintendo consoles are normally gifted equally Christmas presents and with the competing Xbox and PlayStation consoles proving difficult to get this year it is probable that Switch sales are college than ever.

Nintendo is aware of the problem, equally you would expect, merely there isn't much that they tin practise about it except wait for the crowds to all cease trying to squeeze through the door at the aforementioned time. They may have some emergency servers they can spin upward to handle some additional load, but it is unlikely to exist enough to let everyone prophylactic and seamless passage around the eShop right now.

You tin can keep up to date with how the eShop is doing by visiting the official Nintendo network data page that will be regularly updated with the network condition. While information technology is certainly frustrating to not be able to fix your new Switch, y'all can e'er settle downwards with a nice Christmas movie and some chocolate while you wait.