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Nintendo is not Nintendo-y enough for a while now. The switch system UI is bland and on launch the gray switch was the one being presented.
by talles 2y ago
Nintendo is not Nintendo-y enough for a while now. The switch system UI is bland and on launch the gray switch was the one being presented.
- VyseofArcadia 2y agoYeah, I am not a big fan of the Switch UI. They really took out the "surprise and delight" compared to the Wii U and 3DS. Very bland and straightforward, and yet somehow awfully slow and laggy.
- jncfhnb 2y agoI disagree. I find it delightful. The sounds are awesome.
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- joshuakcockrell 2y agoHave you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.
- glhaynes 2y agoThat's the only part I don't like about the Switch OS, and, yes, it's very bad. And it always baffles me why they wouldn't improve the app that generates revenue of all things.
- saulpw 2y agoAnd you can only buy one game at a time, and have to enter your password in for each one? I like to do all my game research and shopping in one evening and buy 3-4 games at a time. If there's a way to do this I would love to know how!
- VyseofArcadia 2y agoThe sound design is in fact delightful. Nintendo is great at sound design.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoThere's a very good reason for this: The whole OS is under 400MB. Every Nintendo Switch game cartridge comes with a full copy of the necessary OS on it. Every game card is playable, no matter how out of date the Switch is, without any internet connection. I'll take that kind of functionality before "surprise and delight." We might get "surprise and delight" this generation though, if in part because the change to a modified Samsung NAND over Macronix might be cheaper at larger capacities if rumors are correct.
- Dylan16807 2y ago400MB is huge, and cute touches can be very small.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoIt's not that large considering the size of NVIDIA drivers + WebKit alone. By comparison, the Wii U with it's "nice touches" was over 5 GB.
- Dylan16807 2y agoThe necessary OS for running the game doesn't need webkit, and I doubt the important part of the nvidia drivers is super big.
- easton 2y agoI would doubt they made a build of the OS without webkit, or else you’d have a OS without captive portal or eShop support. Feels annoying.
- Shared404 2y ago> Every game card is playable, no matter how out of date the Switch is, without any internet connection. This is mostly accurate, but not entirely afaict. I had to connect my switch to wifi in order to update the OS to play Xenoblade 3 (or Tears of the Kingdom? It's been a while).
- kergonath 2y agoI hated the 3DS UI. It was not exciting, it was bad and inconsistent. At least with the Switch it is unobstrusive.
- RajT88 2y agoSpeaking of - does anyone know of an HTPC frontend which duplicates the look and feel of the Wii menu?
- KeplerBoy 2y agoWho even runs HTPCs these days?
- RajT88 2y agoI was interested in disconnecting my smart TV from the internet and using a replacement which I am in complete control of. As to "who", some part of the demographic who runs JellyFin/Plex/Etc.
- red-iron-pine 2y agopeople who appreciate that Roku is a marketing company and not a gadget company
- Johanx64 2y agoIt's so odd to see Nintendo who hasn't competed on hardware specs for decades to release new console without atleast some gimmick(s) to sell their severely underpowered hardware. Absolute zero gimmicks and zero excitement. I personally dont care for gimmicks, but I expect them from Nintendo.
- CitrusFruits 2y agoPeople are speculating that you can use the controllers like a computer mouse. You can see an allusion to that towards the end of the video.
- koolala 2y agoThat's a really old-school gimmick if so.
- bobthepanda 2y agoRetro things have a habit of coming back. See: polaroids
- dasKrokodil 2y agoYeah, and this might make first-person shooters and some strategy games play a lot nicer if (big if) it works well. Perhaps the next iteration of Mario Maker might also make use of it.
- 2muchcoffeeman 2y agoThey had it right with motion controls on the Wii. I could headshot on the Wii edition of Resident Evil 4 so effectively it was cheating. The Switch also has motion control for fine aiming in some games (Zelda, Borderlands 2). Joysticks for gross movement then motion controls for smaller adjustments. Much better scheme than Xbox or PS. Strategy games might benefit.
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