Nintendo reported a widespread outage to its network services at around 4 p.m. on October 20.Not just Nintendo, multiple network service providers also reported service failures during the same period.

As of the time of publishing this article, Nintendo reported that network services on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch and other devices have experienced comprehensive network failures.In addition, some Nintendo smartphone apps for iOS and Android platforms are also experiencing network connection issues.Nintendo has apologized and said a full recovery may take some time.In addition, the official social media account of "Eudemons Parlu" also reported that many games including this game have experienced unstable connections in multiplayer online modes.

In addition, data from Downdetector, a website that records the operating status of various services based on user reports, shows that reports of a wide range of network service problems, not limited to Nintendo, have surged in a short period of time.On social media, there are sporadic reports of connection failures in services such as Steam.The service scope of problem reports is not limited to the gaming field, but also involves foreign online shopping platform Amazon web services and video platform Hulu.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of this month, various network services, including Steam, also reported connection failures one after another.There was speculation at the time that the cause might be a large-scale DDoS attack.The cause of this large-scale failure is still unclear as of the time of writing this article.It remains to be seen how well each of the services that failed will recover.