I know we’ve been hearing stuff about this for years but it seems more plausible for early dev kits to be out there now given the aging hardware of the original, that is assuming that a switch 2 is the path Nintendo will actually take. Either way I hope it has better ui.
I hope they don’t touch the UI honestly.
I respect your opinion, and I understand where it’s coming from, but I find the switches UI to be basically perfect. No fuss, no fuckabouts, just gets me into the game.
I know this is a super divisive topic on the internet, so I know you’re not alone in your opinion. I just don’t really see what else would be wanted because for me, it does literally everything I’d want it to do.
Iron out a few hiccups, Bluetooth audio quick access menu, eShop speed, but buy and large, I love the streamlinedness of the Switches UI.
What I really want from the UI is for it to be more like the 3DS. I just wanna customize my games into a 2D grid. With folders.
I fully accept that this feature is essentially pointless, and that the current system works for 95% of use cases, including my own - it’s just an aesthetic preference.
What makes the switch genius level of engineering is the Switch System Software microkernel architecture. When the switch plays a game, it doesn’t have bloated tasks running in the background to render some ads in some shop app you probably won’t visit while playing, but only plays the game. This approach is totally mandatory to get anything to run on the switch’s ancient hardware, but it is also so beautiful and rare to see today from a technical point of view. Where Xbox and PlayStation are directly derived from a multi-purpose desktop PC, the switch is more closely related with consoles and handhelds of the past.
Therefore a lot of flashy UI elements pulling information from the Internet or animating with some “expensive” (in a performance sense) effects aren’t really feasible, since these would hog up system resources the switch doesn’t have to spare and isn’t even designed to be able to spare. I hope when Nintendo updates the switch they keep this philosophy alive and this would very probably lead to another clean UI.
That’s alright too. I just really wish it had the style and fun of the wii and wii u’s menus.
I agree 100%. One of the reasons Switch got me back into gaming was the ease of picking up and getting into a game, and the minimalist UI is a part of that. Even opening Steam these days gets your eyeballs immediately flooded with ads and call to actions, so it’s nice to have at least one system that is only focused on playing games.
