Tom Nook Sawyer
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They also don't normally pull the eShop for 24-hours at a time. Wonder what's going on?
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They also don't normally pull the eShop for 24-hours at a time. Wonder what's going on?
InspectorSpaceman
Neo Member
They will when they are going to take their digital store down for an entire day
Pokemaniac
Member
Yeah, it's rather strange. I wonder if it's finally web eShop time.
Just checked the eshop for the first time in a little bit after hearing the news about the maintenance. Wasn't prepared for the spookiness. Also, Human Resource Machine is out already huh.
I'm sure this'll all blow over and everything will be fine. They're probably just changing it from eshop to Miishop. No Directs to speak of.
I'm sure this'll all blow over and everything will be fine. They're probably just changing it from eshop to Miishop. No Directs to speak of.
Pokemaniac
Member
I don't think I've ever seen people care so much about one of Nintendo's investor briefings as they did last night. The fact that there was a Direct confirmed for this year seems to have kicked things into overdrive.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Metroid Prime 8 confirmed.
-shadow-
Member
So revolutionary they HAD to skip 4 through 7!
Half Direct 3 confirmed!
Interesting. Hope it means a wee overhaul or something cool..
Considering how it's eShop related, I doubt it has anything to do with SMM. A maintenance specific for Mario Maker will probably appear in the next future.
24 hours is a lot, what would need such a huge downtime? Maybe Nintendo Accounts (even if MyNintendo comes out next year). Or, as L~A posted on his own site, IARC related? The eShop has just adopted the international rating, as we can see with enthusiasm here too (hi, Gualtica
). I'll probably open a thread on the matter later. Still, it could be related, i.e. making the eShop completely conformed to the new rating system. Or it's just something that no one here could've predicted.Ok I loled😂
But really did they have such a big downtime for other directs?
Kissenkopf
Banned
Dagobert Duck
Member
Who said its direct related?
We just know.
We had to call Prime 8 because the plot is that Samus was turned into a monkey and is trying to turn back into a human.
Dagobert Duck
Member
AcademicSaucer
Member
November direct here we come .
Pokemaniac
Member
Considering how it's eShop related, I doubt it has anything to do with SMM. A maintenance specific for Mario Maker will probably appear in the next future.
24 hours is a lot, what would need such a huge downtime? Maybe Nintendo Accounts (even if MyNintendo comes out next year). Or, as L~A posted on his own site, IARC related? The eShop has just adopted the international rating, as we can see with enthusiasm here too (hi, Gualtica
I don't think IARC could be the cause of this. If I understand IARC correctly, you still get the regional ratings, and the difference is all on the developer side.
If I had to guess, I'd say that this maintenance was for the Web eShop, NX prep, Nintendo Accounts (the timing for these was left super ambiguous), and/or proper cross-buy support. 24 hours is a long time to take a digital storefront down for maintenance. Whatever they're doing must require some sort of massive infrastructure overhaul.
Vampirolol
Member
It's probably the day one patch for TP HD that turns every character into Malo.
Smiles and Cries
Member
so Monday night should be interesting?
Conrad Link
Member
Hmm interesting, it must be something of note. Seems too much to be nothing.
Pokemaniac
Member
It's not guaranteed, bit it is looking pretty likely.
Which Direct?
.... I just realized i made that up.
Fuck, the hype is getting to me.
This. C'mon people, I really hope all those posts about getting hyped are sarcasm/tongue-in-cheek.
Probably. I don't expect anything at this point.
I was pretty sure something was gonna happen last week when Twilight Princess HD was just leaked, there was this maintenance along all stores and we had all those rumors regarding Splatoon and Smash and we got nothing in the end. I learned my lesson from that.
We're all super thirsty but I'm not gonna hype myself up for this though. This could just be preparation for holiday rush.
EndlessFloydian
Member
Yeah, probably just prepping the servers for the holidays. I remember the holiday directly after launch of Wii U, the servers were slammed and was pretty slow for a couple days.
AcademicSaucer
Member
We will always have next week .
Pokemaniac
Member
Maintenance of this magnitude is not typical of preparing for holiday rush. Normally, that process shouldn't require any actual downtime at all. While the "holiday rush" explanation is somewhat plausible, I find it unlikely, since they seem to handle the extra load mostly fine without doing stuff like this (at least when they're not doing stupid things like releasing Pokemon Bank on Christmas). Maintenance of this magnitude indicates that they are changing something deep in their infrastructure. It could definitely be for scaling reasons, but, considering the fact that they're going to necessarily be making significant changes to eShop related things soon due to Nintendo Accounts, My Nintendo, and NX, and this isn't the kind of maintenance that they want to be doing particularly often (any time the eShop is down is a time when people can't spend money on it), this maintenance likely goes beyond simply making things more robust.
There's still a decent chance we won't see anything tangible come out of this anytime soon, but there's no reason to assume this is mundane. This maintenance is highly unusual.
Pokemaniac
Member
My Nintendo is supposed to launch in March, but the Nintendo Accounts were actually left much more ambiguous.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/151029/04.html said:
They appear to consider My Nintendo as a service built on top of Nintendo Accounts, and they specifically stated that My Nintendo would launch in March, but they didn't really say anything about Nintendo Accounts.
Oh I missed that bit. Then there is a high likelihood we see the account system before the end of the year, especially given all this backend work.
So your basically telling me that Retros next game is another fucking Donkey Kong.
Dr. Buni
Member
It could mean something of significance, yes, but it also could not. I am hoping for the best and expecting the worst, as usual.
Kissenkopf
Banned
Doubt we will see anything...looks like they prepare for something in the near future.
Pokemaniac
Member
It will almost definitely be significant, but it may not be significant right away.
Dagobert Duck
Member
So was it significant?
So was it significant?
It's still going on lol