Wii U, 3DS eShops will go offline for 12 hours of maintenance starting later today

Nintendo had a bit of a mess on its hands during Christmas, and now it’s gotta spend its Friday evening cleaning it up.

The company’s digital-download markets on its Wii U, 3DS, Wii, and DS gaming systems experienced a number of technical difficulties on Wednesday that continued through yesterday. During the outages, customers couldn’t access Nintendo’s online stores to purchase downloadable games or to create IDs for the Nintendo Network online services.