Nintendo has announced that, on the 30th of September, server maintenance for the Nintendo Network will last a total of nine hours. This includes both the Wii U and 3DS’s online services. Here are the times for three different regions: 8am – 5pm Pacific Time 11am – 8pm Eastern Time 4pm – 1am (October 1st) UK Time Certain features on Miiverse will be unavailable during maintenance, including friend requests, private messaging and viewing your blocked user list. Leaderboards and online play within games may also be affected. It might be wise to play offline until everything is up and running again. This extended maintenance replaces the usual four-hour maintenance Nintendo normally conducts on a Monday. [via Nintendo] local_offer miiverse Nintendo nintendo network wii u stars Further Reading Consumer council in Europe alleges Nintendo i Switch has more games than Wii and Wii U comb Christopher Acuna We finally getting that big fall update. Mario Wait? You think is That update? Jon Don’t get your hopes up because if it isn’t the update, you are just going to get mad (or more mad than you would have been) Christopher Acuna There are better thing’s out there to be upset about then Nintendo delaying the big fall update. Shota so wrong you are. when there is maintenance it means they are readying the update in the server. Jon I am not saying that this is not going to be the update nor am I saying it isn’t for prep. I am simply stating this because if for some reason the update isn’t tomorrow or in the next couple of days, people are just going to start getting mad, The update could happen two weeks from now and this was just some of the final installments they needed to do so. It is just people are not patient and think it should be here now and if it is not done tomorrow or the next day then they will rage and get mad at Nintendo for giving “false hope”. Shota i called them. they said tomorrow with fixes for the browser. Its a big update. I heard it from a member at gbatemp that maintenance like this are for updates few months ago. Jon Ok, so if they are saying there is an update that makes it more likely, however when you stated maintenance, it doesn’t always mean update as you have stated as maintenance is done on a regular basis without updates, Sometimes more extensive is needed. Now the problem here was before people started calling and asking, people were just assuming which is where the problem begins because if it never happened when it was never confirmed, then you just run into false hopes that were created by yourself. As for my post at the time when posted, it is not incorrect because at the time, there was nothing indicating that an update was truly happening tomorrow. Now though, people have claimed they called and have been told an update is coming. Shota i called because of the freezing problems in youtube. Maintence for 3ds ,wiiu at night means update the next day. It happend everytime. Jon There is maintenance every Monday on the Wii U…. Is there an update every Monday? No, Maintenance does not equal update Shota ‘from now on every monday a maintenance for wiiu’ was announced 3 days ago. To inform us that it will be a normal maintenance happening every monday starting next week. So we know its nothing big. Jon there has always been maintenance on Mondays… Unless they just had the WIi U on there and never really did maintenance on it… Guest Hmmm i could always play online at that time of maintenance on monday. Today unfortunately not. rest of week college or work. tuesday im always free so i was playing every monday night. Bad luck for me then ;( Guest I was always playing monday night. rest of the week college or work. tuesday was my only day off. bad luck for me π Guest huh? i didnt know it was already on mondays.. Shota hmm maybe. Archiq09 look good if it’s puts chat group when we play … but I dont think to it’s that ^^” Martijn Plasmans It’s the summer update which is anounced for this period: According to Nintendo, another update β presumably the big one β will be available between “the end of September and beginning of October”. Magnus Eriksson The pervert moderators of Mii Verse kicked me out for drawing a light bulb. Im banned for two weeks because they thought my light bulb resembled something pornographic. It didnt help that my drawing had the text “light bulb” either. Hope they will fix that problem. CMB The admins are so unfair, they need a change in moderation rp17 My first post was deleted by administrator. Anyone know why? Really! Daniel Gonzalez Had to have been something against their rules. I doubt they’re going to do it for no reason. What did you say? Magnus Eriksson This is the pornographic drawing that was too much to handle for Nintendo. Zorpix dude that looks like a pussy Magnus Eriksson But its still a light bulb. If it looks like a pussy its your dirty imagination and not my drawing. It clearly says “light bulb” too. Zorpix eh… They could’ve easily thought you just wrote that to cover up the fact that it looked like that. I saw someone who drew what was OBVIOUSLY a penis (had hair and everything) and labelled it “Balloon”. MetroidZero Wow, looks like someone with their pants down. If you made the top half more circular, it would look more like a light bulb. Ony Haven’t they an algorythm that try to detect pornographic and abusive langage content ? After the automatic alert, Mods have to look at the post and decide what to do. No ? Magnus Eriksson Yup, they have to check it and they determined that it was an abuse. Light bulbs are appearantly whats rocking the boat at Nintendos… Arthur Jarret That nintendo staff sure does some strange stuff with lightbulbs… Then again, I had an entire conversation with a guy from the UK about weed, he got banned and I only got a warning for talking about criminal activity (while it isn’t even illegal here). I replied by saying ‘I have adjusted my mii or profile’. YogiGRB Yeah here in Holland ya can smoke the ganja (weed) also without problems. I love a J once in a while Arthur Jarret Well, we just agreed to call it ‘pokemon green leaf’ now and manage to talk about it without further bans or warnings – despite the fact I no longer feel the need to smoke it nowadays anyway, it’s nice to talk about past experiences. Don’t get me started on ‘super mushrooms’ or ‘ice flowers’. YogiGRB Whahahahahahahaha ……. “super mushrooms” and/or “ice flowers” those are nice nicknames. I only use the “green leafs” though. But really … nice one XD Magnus Eriksson Master Lee? Arthur Jarret Ha, that’s the guy that got banned! I was the guy who came off with a warning (Samael_blackwing) kevin My wife was working the er one weeke d and a guy came in with a lightbulb stuck in him(broke)….. see how its not right to talk about light bulbs. Magnus Eriksson Probably a guy from Nintendo. I imagine it must have been Iwata. Zorpix that was a joke article actually… leo Yay for updates hopefully bizzy gie Fix the YouTube system freezing on Wii U’s browser and link the Nintendo Network accounts! Mercurio2054 that’s a google work. bizzy gie I know, but it’s still a browser issue as every other browser can handle Google’s stupid updates just fine. Jon not for a phone. The browser when I go to youtube a lot doesn’t work. Jon I am pretty sure that might be Youtubes (googles) issue, they changed youtube Untrentide Yea, the youtube app drives be nuts. Crashes, freezes or doesn’t load well. Also, i wish Netflix would have continuous play like the PS3. I’m lazy. Stuart Thomas i agree it freezes all the time and crashes every 10-20 mins Stuart Thomas can i add something. For gods sake let us use the pro controller in the settings menu and in netflix. I Dont want to use the gamepad all the time!!!!!!!!! Lusunup Or a wiimote would be nice. I like how it’s set up on wii’s netflix. Zorpix Hulu+ lets you do autoplay *shrugs* dunno why Netflix cant Ducked Youtube sucks now period. The app on my smartphone and PS3 crashes 24/7 Martijn Plasmans Did you send Google a message about it? bizzy gie I know, but every other browser can handle the stupid, useless updates just fine. hahahero I’d like to see this as well. Would this be a google issue or does Nintendo need to update their browser? Sdudyoy I don’t have trouble with Youtube on the browser and I’ve used it alot, odd. hahahero lucky, I use to have no issue with it. then, over the past month or so it just started freezing up the wii u 90% of the time I try to watch something. Sdudyoy Man that stinks I’m sorry. Peter Lythaby I didn’t use to until last week. Now have to pull the plug every time I use the browser Guest Just hold down the power button until it forces a shutdown. Peter Lythaby Thanks for that. More patience in future Peter! ! Luckily for me it seems to be okay now the update installed Adrian I dunno about youtube, but my Netflix freezes on startup almost 50% of the time. Kholby Oh, god, me too. Drives me CRAZY! Anthony K Aurelia Do you use a portable storage device? I had troubles with Netflix when I had its data on a thumb drive…made a lot of things freeze the system because of the R/W speed of the device. Adrian Nope, it’s on the system storage. Anthony K Aurelia Then IDK..mine works fine since I switched the storage back to the system…have you tried deleting all the data for it then re installing everything? It will sometimes stop at 25% when loading a video but doesn’t freeze it…I just load another video real quick then reload the one I wanted. Marcel Kleine Never had that problem Andrew Chambers Apparently it’s only affecting certain people. When did you get your Wii U? Elem187 close all your tabs and clear your browsing history. Marcel Kleine December 31st π Andrew Chambers Well, the update tomorrow will allegedly fix YouTube. So, we’ll see. Gabrielsen It is as Jon said, Google changed over to HTML5, the Wii U is having a hard time reading it. David John Gifford thats you internet supplier not nintendo i had the same problem now ive changed my internet suplier hasnt frozen since i use a telstra cable connection it depends on what your download speed is 7Down My Wii U started to freeze when I tried to play videos from youtube, via the browser, it’s strange, started yesterday, other websites work fine, but as soon as I hit play on youtube, my console freezes. Elem187 I have the same problem.. close all tabs and clear your browsing history, it should clear it up. some reason it only happens to me when I’m viewing videos over 20 minutes long… Zorpix if you mean the youtube app, I dont think anyone really uses the thing. If they do, they shouldn’t. Much faster in the browser Andrew Chambers It was until YouTube on the Browser started crashing my Wii U… It’s a good thing my laptop has an HD 4000. Elem187 I have the same problem.. close all tabs and clear your browsing history, it should clear it up. some reason it only happens to me when I’m viewing videos over 20 minutes long. Zorpix youtube on the browser is fine for me though Andrew Chambers When did you get your Wii U? SonicLucario Im busy with college on Mondays anyways so its all good majora :D That’s why they did it on monday SleepySkullhead same SkateRyan Seriously, Monday is my busiest school day. I have three classes that take up 6 hours and 20 minutes. Then, I have one class per day for the rest of the week. LOL ezquimacore n64 games, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Re4wii2008 I’ve been dreaming of playing Super Mario 64 and OOT on my Gamepad since I got the system at launch If it doesn’t come soon I’ll be sad π Ducked I’m wondering what happended to Nintendo making N64 games in 3DS. We get Star Fox 64, and OoT in its first year. Then we get nothing. Lazara the Last They started making new games. Those games was only to give players something to play while waiting for the first party titles! ItzameyaToad I agree more N64 games are a must especially Donkey Kong 64. The only problem is which N64 games are worth releasing/the effort. I think they should re-release alot of the games already released on Wii virtual console as well as a bunch of other N64 games they skipped over with the Wii. Battle Tanx’s is on the top of my list as well as all the Turok games( I can’t remember which one I played as a kid, I think it was the 2cnd one) Baum γγγͺγΌγ iirc they’re not even allowed to put DK64 on VC, because it still belongs to RARE or something like that. ItzameyaToad No, Nintendo owns full rights to DK64 they for whatever reason have not released it though. Rare theme-selves have even said Nintendo owns DK64 and that they don’t understand why Nintendo hasn’t re-released it. Magnus Eriksson They probably will in some sort of DK-collection. Or pushing up the price as they did with Earthbound. SmashFinale the REAL reason is because the Rareware videogame “Jetpac” is in Donkey Kong 64 and it’s a REQUIREMENT to play and beat in order to complete the game. Now they can remake DK64 but putting it up on VC could cause legal trouble. Baum γγγͺγΌγ okay didn’t know that, thanks for the info ^^ Robert Distefano Fall update inbound! Crowner Pele m.k. that was funny lol…….. Crowner Pele oh yeah…… for update. EricNavedo Please folders for Wii U menu! Like 3DS but u can make it different Nintendo!! And out the clock on the menu cause i hate it when it says A friend is online, it covers up everything.. date clock. important stuff. Sdudyoy While I’m exited to see what updates are in store for us, I doubt it will be a small one with a nine hour maintenance process. Jon Just so you guys know, you might not want to say “Yay! it’s the update!” because if it isn’t the update, then we will get a bunch of people and probably more trolls going on about Nintendo lying and being bad, blah, blah, blah and then you have a bunch of people mad at Nintendo because they “failed” to deliver what they promised when they never gave an actual date for the update. Martijn Plasmans According to Nintendo, another update β presumably the big one β will be available between “the end of September and beginning of October”. Jon yeah, but I know saying the beginning of October could mean several days into October… Remember the VC release rage? They posted saying “3 days” and that was just for the release of the list of games to come on it first while everyone actually thought it was coming in 3 days. Martijn Plasmans The beginning of a month is not so long. We’ll hear it tomorrow during the Nintendo Direct. π Elem187 Anytime Nintendo announces any kind of update or Nintendo direct, you get the trolls coming out of the woodwork to predict some really off the wall never going to happen things, and when Nintendo doesn’t name those crazy off the wall never going to happen, the trolls breakl right into “Nintendo is the worst company in the world” .. It happens every single Nintendo direct. The True Gamer Most updates for any system rarely add major features. Jake You think this is for the fall update coming really really soon. Mayber October 1st or 2nd. Tell us nintendo this isn’t a brand new game CMB since when does iwata have a mustache? KoopaShell That’s his mouth. Jeffery02 I wonder what it’s for. There’s plenty that it COULD be, but I’m not gonna hold my breath. I’d rather it be a surprise if it’s anything special. MYCO ok AAAkabob They do a weekly maintenanceO_o? Baum γγγͺγΌγ they don’t. but they’re planning to start with it next week Mitch Hall Won’t affect me, fortunately. I’m at school during that time. I wonder what the update is, though? uPadWatcher At least I’ll be playing The Wonderful 101 tomorrow night. Elem187 Nonstop everyday π I logged 65 hours into W101 so far and it is still just as fun as when I first started Pikachief I don’t mind. It’s not like there’s even any online games out for the wii U yet! Trolololololo Baum γγγͺγΌγ uhm…if I understood Marty’s post correctly, there was no maintenance before so….it’s not really a replacement for the planned 4 hours. simply because it’s the first time they do it. sharlo galmo This must be also for the big update, cause tomorrow a Nintendo direct. ..i am so hype, i hope we will see new games, or new trailers from the games what release this year. Martijn Plasmans In the absence of systemsellers like Mario Kart & SMash Bros, i hope some Virtual Console (N64) news Shota Central European Summer Time. 5pm-1am Nope.avi So why does this affect the 3ds? And both at the same time? Maybe they are moving to a unified system soon? Jon NINTENDO DIRECT TOMORROW! 7AM PT / 10AM ET / 3PM UK time. Just saw it on Nintendo Life! π http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/nintendo_direct_wii_u_and_3ds_broadcast_coming_tomorrow Johny seems big :O expecting big things of the big update… when its coming Eric nintendo Direct Oct 1st at 7 am PT juancamiloarq Something big must be coming! This is no ordinary maintenance and there’s gonna be a Nintendo Direct tomorrow. What could it be!? Lets hope for the best!! The True Gamer This is why I like Xbox. Nintendo and playstation have maintance for their networks. Then again, they are both built upon offline games, while Xbox is pretty much a online fps system, so I assume it doesn’t cause a major Inconvience