Pokemon Sword and Shield online servers slammed with major traffic

When you have 6 million people scooping up Pokemon Sword and Shield in less than a week, it's no surprise that the games are getting a lot of online activity. As a matter of fact, so many people are trying to get in on the online action that it's causing some major hiccups in Japan. Multiple users are getting error messages pertaining to online, and Nintendo's network status page has pointed out that people may not be able to gain access at certain times. Things should smooth out as we move forward away from launch day.