Look, i'm gonna be direct. The new update for the system just released but it added literally nothing and i've been wanting to talk about some problems with the Switch and it's UI, feel free to share your problems in this thread.
>No custom original themes or themes based on games you own. >No music in the default menu. >No music or any sign of soul in the eshop. >No option to change the language of the newsletter. >Friendlist is absolutely useless. >No achievements. >No custom icons that you can design. >No icons from on Smash, Tropical Freeze, Pokemon, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, etc. >No third party icons from Bayonetta or Sonic. >No folders >No proper way to organize your games the way you want to >No virtual console
I thought they had these issues figured out by now with the Wii and 3ds.
It's pretty nice that you can now sort by hours played, game companies, A-Z, etc.
Too bad about no folders though.
Landon Hill
>No themes >No custom icons
With hacks you can. Everything else is just nitpicking
Asher Peterson
To be honest, A lot of System Menus feel Soulless, Or just something I wouldn't feel safe on at night. I talked this over with a friend a few days ago. Something about the Wii U's menu felt Soulful and Safe, Like it was nice and secure. The Switch just feels blank. I'd like it a lot more if the White background wasn't the nu-whiteshit that it seems every company is doing where they just make the white burn your eyes as hard as it can and make the text and everything else deep black.
Kevin Richardson
I mean if youre gonna hack your switch, why stop at custom menus, why not just download games? I think user wants a functioning switch
Angel Hall
>you have to hack your switch because it's a piece of shit that lacks everything you want Whoa....so this.....is the power of nintendo.....
Mason Rodriguez
I agree with most of your points op, but I couldn't care less about achievements or virtual console - if you want retro games, hack the system to put them on there for free, why would you ask to PAY for that at the extortionate prices nintendo charge for these old games?
On a similar note, many of the things you want can be obtained via hacks as well, although it's not ideal as unfortunately you can't play online and sometimes latest firmware is required to play newer games but it is an option.
I get the impression that the switch UI is as stripped down as possible so the system can boot and launch games quickly, which tbf is something it does well (especially compared to ps4/xbone). Personally, I want them to drop friendcodes in favor of adding people by username; add integrated voicechat to the system, preferably as some sort of app that can be overlayed in any game; also add folders or at least a way to tag a game as a favorite so you can sort your games better. Music and themes would be nice too, but not important to me.
Jaxson Green
>using the white theme use the dark theme nigga
Wii U menu really does have more personality to it, though, that I agree on. However, Wii U's menu and OS as a whole is slow as fuck. I have hundreds of pirated games installed on my Wii U and it takes up to 5 full minutes to load them all in, meaning I often have to sit and wait several minutes before I'm able to launch a game I want. I think making the Switch's menus bare and lifeless as fuck was a necessary evil to make navigation and launching apps significantly faster.
Zachary Fisher
Just hack your switch like what a normal person should do.
Ryan Lopez
>use the dark theme nigga I do, I just wish I could use the White theme, Way too much shit nowadays makes the white theme always have such a sharp black contrast and eye-burning colors.
The Wii U definitely was slow in some areas but even just a better background for the Switch and some music would liven it up a bit.
Dylan Ross
true, I doubt a background and music would slow boot times at all
Cooper Hill
I wouldn't be upset about any of these things if it wasn't for the fact that there's systems in place for them that then go completely unused. Like the friend page and account profile pic. They force us to use premade PFPs but then they only give like 12 incredibly basic pictures to use from. They implement a news a system and then HARD BAKE it onto the menu and unlock screen. It's not quite as bad as the 3DS was with abandon/bloatware features but the fact that niggers are still putting this kinda shit on their consoles only to abandon them is infurating.
Bentley Sanchez
You forgot the most important things >No webbroswer >No Netflix
Mason Johnson
>no music
lmao what a baby
Chase Williams
Can you use custom icons on Xbox and PS4?
Jace Young
>>No achievements. ZOOM ZOOM
Thomas Cruz
C-Can the Nintendo Switch please stop selling so much? Dear God please stop selling! I can't take it anymore!!!
Why do people want folders so bad? It doesn't take long to find games at all.
Hunter Perry
Im an old fuck, and it is retarded there are no achievements for switch. No achievements, twice as expensive games I already own, or could get on sale for half a switch games price on ps4 are reasons I don't buy or rebuy games hust for the portability. 3rd parties are putting games on sale finally, but nintendo first party games are full 69 dollars 1-2 dollars after release with occasional sales, like 4 times a year. Mario odyssey and kart should be 30 bucks or lower same with zelda, new.
Aiden Smith
>3rd parties are putting games on sale finally, but nintendo first party games are full 69 dollars Why does this myth continue even as several first party Nintendo games are on sale as I type?
Lincoln Murphy
Is it true that there are new Switch models coming? I was planning on finally buying a Switch next month but if the new models are coming out soon I could wait a liiiiiiiittle bit longer.
Gabriel Scott
Honestly, the only thing it needs are folders for games. That's it. You only spend in the main menu is to search for the game you want to play.
Sebastian Fisher
they'll probably come eventually, but I highly doubt the rumored summer release is true given the literal zero news nor evidence on the new models and we're already in spring. If it happens, it'll be in time for xmas at the absolute earliest.
Jordan King
Name them, most first party nintendo games at most go 10 dollars off the 60 dollar price tag, i mistyped and said 69, they are 59.99 all fucking day long. They had mario day and put some on sale for 40 dollars for 1 while day. Mario and rabbits shit strategy game is part third party and is 20 dollars cause it is a not a great game. Zelda is 2 years old, odyssey is 1.5 years old, and kart is about 2 years old and alk are still 60-maybe 50 dollars retail. It isn't a fucking myth. Spiderman hung on for a real long time at 40-50 dollars but is now 30 dollars and isn't even a year old. Most ps4 games are half off 6 months after release and 20 bucks a year later. The only myth is that you believe first party nintendo games for switch aren't price gouging.
Anthony Gray
Well then fuck it, I'm getting a Switch next month. I don't care if they announce the new models literally the next day, I've waited long enough. I want to play Smash Ultimate, damn it.
Ryan Morris
The Wii had the best UI of any Nintendo console handheld or otherwise in my opinion. It stuck with it's theme and had plenty of bells and whistles. The whole "channel" schtick worked very well and all of the original music sealed the package very well. As much shit as the Wii got (rightfully so as I believe the quality of their games dropped drastically around that time with some exceptions) it really was their last great console. Backwards compatibility, a strong online store, a fun avatar system, etc.
>Mario and rabbits shit strategy game is part third party and is 20 dollars cause it is a not a great game. It's fucking great. Faggot.
Ethan Mitchell
>Name them How about you just pick up your Switch and look? Off the top of my head, Odssey, BotW and Xenoblade are all on sale and have been in the past and will contine to in the future. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Anthony Gomez
worst case scenario if a new switch model comes out shortly after you get yours you should be able to return it
Brody Sanchez
nintendo might make great games but they cant create OS's for shit
Thomas Allen
Just buy it. Play the games you want. If a new model comes then just hack/sell the old and buy new.
Gavin Allen
Did this update fix the USB polling issue that causes wired controllers to have a lot more latency than wireless?
Oliver Barnes
is it really good? it's basically the only "must have" switch game i dont own. i was always curious because mario xcom sounds like fun, but ubisoft games tend to be kind of shitty. the gold edition is on sale as well, with the donkey kong dlc, but it's $45 instead of $30 (australian). worth it without the dlc?
Nolan Hill
Online works fine with Atmosphere right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they start banning for it in the future though.
Nolan Collins
Xenoblade 2 isn't a first party game, odyssey and botw aren't on sale from what I saw unless you count the 5 to 10 dollars at certain retailers maybe said. Xeno is 40 at some retailer but not in store as far as I know.
It is so rediculius even on ebay used copies of the first party games are 40 dollars...... 40 dollars for 2 year old used games...
Oliver Richardson
not that user but m+r is underrated imo, I'm surprised it's gotten so cheap and still gets overlooked (I guess because nobody fucking likes the rabbids), gameplay is pretty good - like xcom lite but with some additional puzzle-y elements to help it stand on its own. Also has pretty good multiplayer, both co-op and vs.
Chase Green
The game is pretty good, way better than anyone would have assumed an Ubisoft-made game featuring the Rabbids could ever be. It's an Xcom styled game that does the gameplay pretty competently.
The game by itself without the DLC is pretty solid, though the Donkey Kong DLC was also very well worth it, I felt. But if you want to save money, you're fine without it.
Nolan Sanders
>Wii U's menu and OS as a whole is slow as fuck that's not a problem with its features. It's because the RAM bandwith is so shitty and the OS was rushed, it was barely finished. Also the CPU is like 100 years old.
Austin Hernandez
And guess what, because of all that the console itself is the fastest starting one out of basically any system in the last few generations. I don't give a fuck about music, trophies and any other crap, it's a device to play games and I want it to do that as fast as possible.
Elijah Rogers
>Xenoblade 2 isn't a first party game Yes it is. >odyssey and botw aren't on sale Open the eShop, doofus.
Lincoln Wood
it's both because of the specs and the bloated features
Luis Ortiz
arent they only on sale in europe
Adrian Clark
I agree on the UI themes, the basic one right now feels so boring.
Cooper Nelson
Maybe, but you can still buy them very easily from anywhere.
Brandon Hernandez
monolith is owned by nintendo. lots of first party games are at least 30% off on eShop right now. zelda, xeno, odyssey, lots of stuff. monhun is 42% off
Andrew Jones
With ps4 yes. You link it to a fake Facebook account.
Nathan Harris
I agree op. The UI sucks so fucking badly I hate it. Let me organize my fucking digital games, instead they go all the way down after playing other games and I have to search for them every fuckin time
Leo Ramirez
>No custom original themes or themes based on games you own. Are you a girl? I want to play games not show my pretty bootup to my boyfriend
>No music in the default menu. Cringe
>No music or any sign of soul in the eshop. Cringe
>No option to change the language of the newsletter. What? Really? Not even your consoles language preference?
>Friendlist is absolutely useless. I search for non-shitters to play Splatoon 2 with in my friends list..
>No achievements. There's achievements built into the games that need it.. like smash has an achievements board
>No custom icons that you can design. You sort of can with the miis.. but yeah, icons don't mean much.. play games. Do you really care how you are represented to snot faced johnny
>No icons from on Smash, Tropical Freeze, Pokemon, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, etc. Weird but yeah.. pointless
>No third party icons from Bayonetta or Sonic. Absolutely makes sense.. Nintendo wouldn't want to pay royalties for their home console you nonce
>No folders Autist
>No proper way to organize your games the way you want to Aaaaaauuuuuttiiisssmmm
>No virtual console We have another console for that. :^]
Jordan Murphy
Take note people. This is how your average corporate boot licking pedo looks like. Don't you have squids to jerk off to you sick freak?
Andrew Taylor
>>No music in the default menu. Good >>Friendlist is absolutely useless. What the fuck are you talking about, what are you expecting it to do? >>No custom icons that you can design. Good >>No virtual console This belongs in a different list
Colton Adams
I love my switch. It doesn't need to change
Gamefreak needs to change.. see look I can hate on Nintendo :^^]]]]]]]
Music and backgrounds are unecessary bloat that serve no real purpose. Keep it simple, stupid.
Noah Myers
They have a web browser programmed, they just refuse to implement it because that's how all their online systems got cracked.
Isaac Smith
Oh look, it's my wife, Mii Gunner
Christian Sanders
Like 70% of ur "problems" have been solved with homebrew, unless u like playing on Nintendo's lag ridden, baby userbase of a server, u have no reason to not hack it
Colton Carter
The RRoD console from 2006 has more OS features than the Switch, how fucking sad is that.
360 has more features than the bone and ps4 as well, dipshit.
Landon Bell
Joke's on you, nintendo doesn't have a server. It's p2p all the way down.
Connor Peterson
So in 2035 will Switch 4 have the same features as a PS4?
Benjamin Bell
almost as if that was the entire point of the 360, right down to the name
Adam White
Fatbox even had more shit on its OS than the Switch
Ayden Gonzalez
Mostly just to organize icons however you wish or group them together by series
Angel Green
>Drones defending every single flaw of the Switch ITT Fucking hell that's just pathetic, they do it do it FOR FREE
Cooper Brown
defend THIS *farts* oopsie woopsie, i made a stinky winky :3
Cooper Gutierrez
How does the background match your controllers?
Angel Cooper
>you should never ask for improvements or updates that better your experience Shut the fuck up
Luke Price
i never understood why defending a shitass barebones UI and OS is the hill nintendo cultists always die on its like they always enjoy being 10 years behind everyone else
Brandon Robinson
I mean I don't mind the Switch's menu, I sort my Steam games by recently played too, but it's fucking retarded that they bothered adding a half-assed feature to the all software section and not giving any options to what first appears on your Swtich when turning it on.
Robert Campbell
>deflecting >scatological humor switchlets are children confirmed
Luke White
That's why you curate what's on your HDD.
Andrew Robinson
I will quote you since I agree with you on most things. I would love to organize games alphabetically, and would love to have even smaller icons for games (that are on my console), but what's the fucking point of folders? Still not sure about achievements.
Anthony Ward
It's ahead of the Xbone at the very least. All it needs is folders and the ability to skip directly to the "all games" screen. It's barebones but barebones is fine on my game machine so long as it still plays GAMES.
Luis Wood
they did the same for the Wii U, Wii and DS, they just don't care if nintendo lazily cuts corners on their consoles, they're already used to playing on weaker hardware
Leo Ortiz
>no music Good >no achievements Good
Jordan Robinson
I'm just glad the UI absolutely obliterates the competition in quality, nitpicks and all. Nothing else since consoles got complex UIs has been this fast and self explainatory, everything is right there in front of you, no sub-menus, side bars and labyrinth of of links that take you to the same place. They can fix the minor issues later for all I care.
>I'm just glad the UI absolutely obliterates the competition in quality Now this is delusional
Logan Wood
How much do you get paid? I'm nintenbro as fuck, but even I'm disgusted by you.
Joseph Russell
Because I can launch a game on my Switch while my PS4 is still loading the fucking menu. This alone makes it 100x better than anything other system propose (outside of PC obviously)
Brandon Cox
imagine being happier for having less things, is this cuckoldry?
Lucas Parker
Debate me. No other UI displays everything you need to see in three neat rows on the same screen from the second you turn on the system, with self explanatory icons. Your favorite designed-by-committee UI might have more bells and whistles than the Switch, but the elegance of the Switch UI just simply doesn't exist on other modern consoles, handhelds or PC. It's really quite impressive.
I'm not hacking my switch until we get a proper coldboot cfw. Using autoRCM damages the battery.
Dominic Price
Switch OS is great because its fast and just werks. I'm using it to play games, not ogle at the menu design. I'll take something thats clean and snappy over the Wii U's more detailed but slow as all hell menu any day. This user knows whats up. I own an Xbox and there's so much bloat and ads everywhere, and your game library isn't even on the start page for fucks sake. I don't know how people can honestly prefer that. Only thing about Xbox thats better is social features like friends and party access but Ninty online sucks anyway and I literally haven't used it outside of Tetris 99.
They should add more icons and folders, but those aren't a big deal to me. I agree completely about virtual console though, as well as media apps like Netflix, internet browser, etc. Its fucking 2019, there's no excuse for these to be omitted at this point.
Connor Williams
Tell me about it, every time I start up my ps4 my eyes want to bleed because it's such a cluttered mess with ads for shit like game of thrones. God forbid you're using an animated theme. Shit even lags.
Nicholas Cooper
Nintendo console OS' and UI's are Japanese as fuck and it shows. At least Sony was smart enough to not let Japs design theirs.
Lincoln Hernandez
Yeah, imagine a world where PS4 didn't have a bunch of video stores, scolling ads and flashing lights everywhere. That would be truely hell on earth.
Jeremiah Roberts
>At least Sony was smart enough to not let Japs design theirs. Which gave us the worst UI to date.
Cooper Thomas
I don’t spend enough time on the menu to give a fuck about all that. Quit your whining if you want custom themes and music either hack your switch or play on your 3ds you child
John Watson
>less is more >That which is less complicated is often better understood and more appreciated than what is more complicated; simplicity is preferable to complexity; brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity. quotations
Joshua Flores
>No custom original themes or themes based on games you own. Only children would care about >No music in the default menu. Who the fuck wants this? I always mute this shit when its there >No music or any sign of soul in the eshop. Really, who the fuck cares about this? The music on the WiiU was annoying as shit >No option to change the language of the newsletter. More petty crying. Who the fuck cares >Friendlist is absolutely useless. Ehh, I have no issues with it but i barely play online too >No achievements. Who the fuck cares about acheivements? >No custom icons that you can design. Wahhh >No icons from on Smash, Tropical Freeze, Pokemon, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, etc. Wahhh >No third party icons from Bayonetta or Sonic. Wahhh >No folders Kinda legit argument though not really that necessary >No proper way to organize your games the way you want to Same as above >No virtual console My only legit issue and the only one that non-man children should have. Like how do they not have at least snes and gameboy games on here now?
Joshua Russell
If you want Nintendo to make any meaningful changes you have to be native japanese, we're just dollar bags to them, nintendo never takes input from the west.
Noah Flores
>All these non-argument Atleast put some effort into being a drone, you dumb NPC
Ryder Sanchez
>Who the fuck wants this? I always mute this shit when its there I have to admit it is annoying. Especially if you get a phone call and it's one of those games that still plays music while it's paused.
Julian Carter
What are you talking about user?
I run XS OS and I don't have any problem with the UI and organizing.
And then it got cracked anyway, so what's stopping them from letting us use it? Publishers often remove denuvo and other DRM from their games when they get cracked
Aaron Perry
>No cheevos shouldn't need them, the game should be good enough motivation on its own >friendslist is useless lists your friends, I dunno what else I want a friends list for it's not there to stroke my shaft, user. it's there to list my friends >no proper way to organize your games isn't this what this update added
Colton Hall
no friendlist message system is whats needed. i added people from splatoon and there is no way to play a game with anyone else ever because nintendo is afraid of pedos talking to kids
Anthony Morales
So?
Anthony Reed
>any sign of soul in the eshop. i dont think ive ever heard a more fucking stupid complaint than the "THE DIGITAL STORE HAS NO SOUL"
Easton Bennett
Dude fuck the OS, where is Netflix? The fucking 3DS has Netflix, what the fuck is up with that?
Bentley Brooks
hulu is probably paying some exclusivity which is funny since that shit isn't available anywhere outside the us
Ryan Smith
people say mario and rabbids is pretty good, akshually