What Time Does Nintendo Repair Center Open

Nintendo Switch repair centers are back: How to get your Switch stock-still

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Due to the Covid-nineteen pandemic and the encroaching release of the PS5 and Xbox Serial X, the Nintendo Switch has been selling at an incredible clip this year. As a issue, information technology has been perpetually sold out despite Nintendo's all-time efforts to resupply.

But customers looking to purchase a new Switch weren't the only ones affected. Nintendo as well had to shut down its repair centers, leaving customers with broken parts high and dry. Now the company has finally updated its support site indicating that information technology will "gradually restart services" (via SlashGear).

Unfortunately, only some of the repair centers are able to reopen at this time, and that is dependent on the policies where they are located. It's likewise worth noting that many repairs were stranded at the repair facilities when stay-at-dwelling orders went into consequence, then these volition have priority over new repair cases.

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Current Nintendo Switch repair centre policies

If you have a repair asking but haven't notwithstanding shipped the Switch, you should concur onto it until Nintendo sends an email notifying you that the repair middle is fix to handle your repair.

Repair requests remain in Nintendo's organisation for 180 days, so any request that you put in during the last couple of months is withal good, and the associated repair shipping label will withal be valid.

Nintendo also stated that if your Switch's warranty expired during the period that the repair centers were closed, they will still honor your warranty as long as a repair request was made prior to the warranty expiring.

At present, but Joy-Con repairs tin can be made using the online repair asking. Unrelated fixes for Nintendo Switch or other product repairs must be made through either chat/SMS back up or Nintendo's phone support at 1-800-255-3700.

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