Switch eShop Has Some Credit Card Issues

This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.


If you’ve been looking to pick up Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition or perhaps one of the 2K collections that released last week, you may have come across an issue when attempting to pay by credit card.

According to Nintendo’s maintenance page, a number of regions have had problems over the weekend at various times. The times and locations effected are as follows:

30 May at 11:25 PM PT
31 May at 2:25 AM ET
31 May at 7:25 AM in the UK
31 May at 8:25 AM in Europe

Nintendo haven’t provided any further details, stating only:

“We are currently experiencing difficulties with our network services.
Please try again later.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

Fingers crossed everything will be back up and running again properly soon. Be sure to keep an eye on the maintenance page for any more updates!