Update (Tue 6th Apr, 2021 15:35 BST): Unless our eyes are deceiving us, the eShop is now back up and running in both Europe and North America.

Nintendo is yet to update its network status page, but it would appear the "emergency maintenance" ran for just under five hours in total.

Hopefully Nintendo will offer an update soon.

Original Article: At the time of writing, the Nintendo eShop appears to be inaccessible for all users across both Europe and North America!

If you're struggling to access the digital store on your Nintendo Switch, don't worry, you're certainly not alone.

While no advance warning was issued, Nintendo has now provided an update acknowledging that services are unavailable on its network status page.

The notice reads, "Service is currently suspended due to emergency server maintenance.

The maintenance began at 2:40am PT this morning (so 5:40am EDT / 10:40am BST / 11:40am CEST), and is still "ongoing" with no specific end time being set just yet!

Usually, maintenance is scheduled for a set block of time, so this "emergency" maintenance with no end in sight is certainly out of the ordinary?

We'll make sure to update you if Nintendo offers up further information on the matter; until then, the eShop's sadly a no-go.

He’d much rather just have a night in with Mario Kart and a pizza, and we can’t say we blame him.

Did Nintendo get DDoS’ed!

Maybe it’s an emergency update that makes it better!

I wonder if this has something to do with the 12.0 system update that mysteriously didn't seem to do much.

I entered on support page and thankfully I saw there the maintenance notice.

Funny I just went to the eShop there, or rather attempted to, obviously I couldn’t actually access it!

Are the Wii U and 3DS Eshop still up?

@Frank-The-Tank It sure increased the speed browsing the eShop, and that without a single official mention!

Balan Wonderworld broke the eShop.

And the ONE time I actually get Nintendo E-Shop cards this happens..

I was just on the EShop a minute ago!

As I found out and commented earlier, one US newsblog did post a short notice maintenance yesterday - no word on emergency status back then, but seeing as it showed up a mere week before the already scheduled (and the only mentioned) maintenance on Ninty's site, I reckon it must have been something they couldn't afford to sleep on.

@MarcusIsCool Nice, I actually just checked, and the eshop isn't down in America, so this won't affect some people

It says maintenance completed on the page

Edit: Well that was quick...the eshop is back

I haven't updated my Switch yet, but I tried opening it and was able to use it just fine

Probably someone found a loophole and was still able to buy 3D All-Stars and Nintendo was like "NO!!

**EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE**

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

ding ding ding

DING DING

My Top Requested Improvements for Switch Eshop: 🛒

Nintendo appear to be linking the Nintendo UK Store to Nintendo Account Services in Europe, according to an email I received from them

This could be why the emergency eShop maintenance and the v12 Switch firmware happened today

@Zach777 If there's something I've learned about Nintendo, it's that they've never been in a rush to improve period

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