It appears that a variety of Nintendo services as well as a small handful of specific games, may experience issues of varying frequency and severity from 3 p.m. Eastern on Monday, January 28 through 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, January 29, as Nintendo will be conducting emergency network maintenance.
The full maintenance schedule, which can be found here, includes work on Wii, Wii U, DS and 3DS eShops, as well as matchmaking for Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper and network services for Pokemon Black & White and Pokemon Black & White 2.
We aren’t entirely sure what kind of network issues are occurring with Pokemon,…maybe someone left a Rattata in the server closet but we are glad Nintendo is on it.
Source: Nintendo