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Yeah, 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 ye

Yeah, 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 ago
I disagree. I find it delightful. The sounds are awesome.
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- joshuakcockrell 2y ago
  Have you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.
  - glhaynes 2y ago
    That'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 ago
    And 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 ago
  The sound design is in fact delightful. Nintendo is great at sound design.
  - dcrazy 2y ago
    Didn’t a third party company design the Switch UI?
    - jncfhnb 2y ago
      That sounds like an extremely unlikely claim
gjsman-1000 2y ago
There'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 Every game card is playable, no matter how out of date the Switch is, without any internet connection.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 ago
  400MB is huge, and cute touches can be very small.
  - gjsman-1000 2y ago
    It'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 ago
      The 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 ago
        I 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 ago
I hated the 3DS UI. It was not exciting, it was bad and inconsistent. At least with the Switch it is unobstrusive.

Yeah, 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 ago

I disagree. I find it delightful. The sounds are awesome.

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joshuakcockrell 2y ago
Have you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.
- glhaynes 2y ago
  That'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 ago
  And 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 ago
The sound design is in fact delightful. Nintendo is great at sound design.
- dcrazy 2y ago
  Didn’t a third party company design the Switch UI?
  - jncfhnb 2y ago
    That sounds like an extremely unlikely claim

gjsman-1000 2y ago

There'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 ago
400MB is huge, and cute touches can be very small.
- gjsman-1000 2y ago
  It'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 ago
    The 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 ago
      I 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 ago

I hated the 3DS UI. It was not exciting, it was bad and inconsistent. At least with the Switch it is unobstrusive.