Nintendo Switch Sports servers are down currently, with no return date in sight

nintendo switch sports the servers are currently offline as a bug in the most recent update is causing the game to crash.

Earlier this week, the Nintendo of America Twitter account posted a tweet letting players know that it was shutting down the servers to investigate an issue with Nintendo Switch Sports. “A bug was found in the Nintendo Switch Sports Ver1.2.1 update that causes the software to crash during the pre-match loading screen,” the tweet reads. “Unfortunately, this is affecting both online and offline game modes. Therefore, we have temporarily suspended the release of this update.”

in a follow-up tweetNintendo continued: “While we investigate to find a solution, the Nintendo Switch Sports servers will be temporarily offline and online play will be unavailable during this time. Save data backup has also been temporarily suspended. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.” “.

Nintendo first reported the bug on October 14, and has since not stated when it expects the servers to be back online, nor has it provided any kind of update on how things are progressing.

Switch Sports has been continually updating the game since its release, such as back in the summer when it added some new volleyball moves, leg strap support for soccer matches, as well as the addition of an S Rank and an Infinity Rank. in ProLeague.

Nintendo Switch Sports’ review of VG247 viewed the game very favorably, giving it four out of five stars, saying, “One can see how Nintendo could have done more new stuff and included more completely new stuff. And yet… Nintendo Switch Sports It’s more or less exactly what I wanted. I can see how it would be one of my absolute favorite games of the year. That’s the magic power of Nintendo.”

Switch Sports was a bit of a surprise as it came out quite some time after the original Wii Sports, and Nintendo took the time to explain why back in May.