Matthew is a journalist in the news department at GameRant. He holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University and has been an avid gamer since 1985. Matthew formerly served as a ...

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate just pushed out the version 3.0 patch to Nintendo Switch fans, except there is one problem. No one can download the darn thing. Many users are reporting errors communicating ...

The ‘Splatoon 2’ Nintendo Eshop Down: Release date woes lead to botched downloads, but charged credit cards The saga began early in the morning of July 21, just after midnight ET. Nintendo Switch ...

Square Enix didn’t go into specific details about the eShop error, but several players like @Alicianov15 reported that after purchasing through Nintendo eShop they were getting registered as the Wii U ...

The past couple of days have been rough for Nintendo. First we had the Nintendo eShop go offline, which subsequently resulted in Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter being delayed. While many thought ...

The Nintendo eShop on both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite is experiencing issues, and has been most of the day, with problems ranging from inability to make purchases to failed connects. At ...

This article about a worldwide outage of Nintendo Switch Online was originally published on March 17, 2020 and updated on March 19, 2022 after the issue was resolved. Read on for the original article, ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. An ...

Essentially it blocks the console from the eShop, but also prevents affected consoles from updating their firmware. Nintendo is currently working on a fix, the company stated.In the above video, ...