The Switch 2 Home Screen and how you feel about it is an IQ test. We all know that Switch has a minimalist home menu so that 99% of the system’s resources can be dedicated to the game, and fancy animated wallpapers and music would subtract from the system power. But some people are incapable of comprehending it and screech that we absolutely NEED fancy themes and music playing.
The Switch 2 Home Screen and how you feel about it is an IQ test...
minimalism is a corporate psyop to make you enjoy paying more for less
I care more about usability than looking fancy, something like this would suffice, one row is very limiting.
The real question is how much memory is the OS using?
Go ahead and explain how an animated pikachu theme and pokemon music playing on the Home Screen makes Nintendo games more fun. Would you rather your games run slower but you have an animated wallpaper and BGM that you look at for 10 seconds before going into the eshop/a game?
It's fine. I always liked how simple the DS home screen was and I felt like the switch was a return to that.
You realize power for home screen shit will stop being used when it isn't on the screen anymore, right?
It would be nice to have some more themes, or even a more developed stock theme with a bit of music. But yeah, it's not really *needed* (and alternative themes will likely just be sold at stupid prices anyway instead of being free)
1 row portable and 2 rows docked would be ideal
It's not about need, it's about want, and I want a cool UI
I'd like background images at least. A plain screenshot would be fine.
given how pleasant the 3ds themes were and still are, I for one wouldn't mind. The switch interface has always been pretty dry, so I'm not surprised, but its still not that interesting. This is a company known for fun and interesting menus, from Mario and Luigi fighting on the FDS bios to the aforementioned 3DS themes, so it is a notable break from the norm. It feels less like ruthless efficiency and more like not wanting to have personality.
Incorrect, the OS is always running in the background that’s why when you press the Home Screen you’re immediately able to get there even if you are playing a game that really pushes the switch to its limits.
its about presentation and precedents. the wii u's home menu didnt have theme, but it had sovl
I want this but with options for the image displayed for the game. The golden ideal is taking screenshots in-game, and you can set those to the game icon or to the device background.
If I recall, it loads quickly in the original Switch. If it works it works.
animated pikachu theme and pokemon music playing on the Home Screen makes Nintendo games more fun
It sets up the vibe for what you're about to play.
Not everyone is a corporate cocksucker like you, theme music in home screens has been a thing since 2004. you are coping and excusing bingtendo for cheaping out on underpowered hardware that they will charge you an arm and a leg for
It has plenty of personality. The threadbare UI indicates to me that this is a GAMES FIRST console, not a menu simulator. The whole point of a games console is to play games, not decorate some stupid menu.
I really hated how bloated the wiiu menu was. That shit needed some minutes to just boot the fucking console. Retards love that garbage console for some reason.
I miss Folders. The 3DS had Folders. Why doesn't the Switch have Folders. And no, groups that you have to dig through three menus to get to aren't Folders. I want Folders like the 3DS had where I can drag and drop the games into them. They should add Folders.
why are switch defenders so adamant on having zero options for customization?
I don't buy the "it's to save on system resources" bullshit anymore. Homebrewed themes have been a thing on the switch for half a decade and have been shown to have no negative impact on performance. It's simply a matter of nintendo being lazy as fuck.
I wouldn't have even minded the lack of themes if they just allowed me to have more than 1 fucking row on the menu. But they couldn't even do that. A handheld from 2011, the 3DS, gives me more options to customize my menu than a $450 console in 2025.
There is no excuse for this. Stop being a fucking shill. Wake up. Nintendo died with Iwata.
Is there an Activity Log like the 3DS or anything better than the profile on Switch?
not everyone is a corporate cocksucker like you
t. Guy that’s begging Nintendo to release paid themes so we can get nickle and dimed over inconsequential bullshit that has nothing to do with playing video games
No, it's not an IQ test, it's a test to see if you have a soul or not.
i need more... uhhh... because... something...
Well said. Soulless people like gaudy home screens that cost money and ensouled people like minimalist presentations that are focused on utility over shallow bullshit
option for custom wallpapers
option for multiple rows and folders
dark or light text to match the wallpapers
Thats all i really want.
and it uses all that power for the games to look and run like absolute shit. thanks nintendo
I like it. Booting up windows/steam/xbox/ps5 is like opening a store thats trying to sell you shit with tons of commercials. A sale header or "dude dlc for your game" is still a commercial.
I like the switch because it kind of only plays games and the ui is build around that "which game?".
I like that it doesnt have a browser or netflix and youtube. I use it too only play games.
I'm selling my ally to buy a switch 2 for that reason. Boring moment? Youtube in the background and all that shit, while on the switch I only play games
1) im not a nintendo user
2) bingtendo is already nickel and dimming you with the switch 2 demo game & cartridge scheme
3) if I was stuck with a nintendo console I'd jailbreak it and pirate all of its games because they're not worth buying
No, it's quite the contrary.
Themes are being phased out, PS5 doesn't have themes and the one time it did, it was limited time for a month.
I'm selling my ally
Why not just keep the ally?
X is an IQ test
idiotic screed follows
Never fails.
You can set a wallpaper to the activity page but you see that for 0.5 seconds before getting into a game.
funny because now we got both
dogshit performance and soulless aesthetics
all know that Switch has a minimalist home menu so that 99% of the system’s resources can be dedicated to the game,
If the Gamecube, Wii, PS2, 3DS Dreamcast, and PSP could all pull stylish menus off without hurting the console performance, so can the Switch.
Honestly I just want a better organizing system than the
single horizontal bar
big ass cluster of every single game ever ordered in specific ways
clunky folder system
At least let me pin some stuff to the top
Some anons might be poor and need to sell their things I guess
Would you rather your games run slower but you have an animated wallpaper and BGM that you look at for 10 seconds before going into the eshop/a game?
but they already run slower without themes and bgm
There's difference between soulful minimalism, aero and just nothing
Windows XP... home
Don't need but liked the option, less options = bad.
NOOO I NEED NINTENDO TO WASTE TIME ON FRIVOLOUS BULLSHIT OR IT'S BAAAAAAD
genuine autism
Based goy
It's not frivolous if it's fun.
It is pretty plain dude
Hell if it's possible third party devs can try to support cross-platform saves between X86 platforms and the switch 2.
If the supposedly stronger Switch 2 is still incapable of running a theme without melting, how is it worth $450?
Proving OP's point
The "new" eShop runs better already. They just don't want to add themes.
Yeah, thought so. I do wonder why all 3 competitors have just given up on themes at this point. Do people not use them enough for the implementation to be worth it?
Hardcore tendies have no preferences outside of what’s approved by Nintendo. No themes? Ugh this is genius, I actually prefer it this way, it’s a games console first and foremost, thank you so much Nintendo. Has themes? Ugh this is so soulful, I actually prefer it this way, thank you so much Nintendo. Metroid Prime 4 has no open world or any innovation since the GameCube? Ugh this is perfect Nintendo I love this so, so much this is EXACTLY what I needed. Mario Kart suddenly has open world? Ugh this is perfect Nintendo I love this so, so much this is EXACTLY what I needed.
Hi. Same anon fromJust admit you are a shill and log the fuck off. If the fucking DSi could let you move your software (same row organization as the switch btw) then there is no excuse for the switch to not let you do the same thing.
Stop settling for less.
considering the fact that in the span of 8 years they made no meaningful change to the home menu, do not expect it. The green icon is just a rebranded news icon
Just say you are a shill and log the fuck off.
Weird since 3DS, which is weaker than a smartwatch, could handle these with 0 issues
Nintendo really gave up didn't they
Idk why i repeated "just say you are a shill" in the second paragraph, that's my fault. Point still stands though
People just dont care like you see with OP and his squires, consoles are so fast now that the least amount of seconds wasted getting into a game, the better.
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Still the ps4 theme i have set.
You lost me with those last two, considering those are two different games with two different goals in mind, and we don't know enough about Prime 4 to properly write it off as not innovative
Since about late 2019 yeah.
Early switch years were roadmapped by iwata, from 2015 to about 2019. He had a big part in the switch's development and it wouldn't have been as successful as it was without him. So ignore the trolls who tell you otherwise. What you are seeing at the moment is an Iwataless Nintendo. Things are not looking good. And they will probably not get better until they fire Furukawa and Doug Bowser.
Hell, the early switch menu concepts actually looked pretty promising, as picrel shows. (These are from 2015 or around that time) Shit just hit the fan after his death
Personally I would prefer it if neither franchise became open world, but you had people arguing like hell just a week ago that open world sucks, it doesn’t fit any franchise, it’s a mistake, and then every single hardcore tendie goes on to praise open world for a series it arguably makes less sense for
Fuck Nintendo
true use the Nintendo Music App for music dumbasses. You spent 1 minute a day in the menu
I've defended their firmware in past because it is very lightweight and efficient while taking minimal space on that shitty 32GB emmc card. Boot up the PS5 with the latest firmware with no games installed and its egregious how much space it takes up. However you want know what was also lightweight and efficient the 3DS firmware. And that much more customization available without needing to install modded firmware. The atmosphere OS for modded switches isn't that onerous on the switch hardware either being able to run purely off a SD card. running custom themes have a negligible impact on performance other than slightly longer cold boot up times.
Customization is a feature that people are willing to spend hard cash on. For a company as greedy as nintendo they are really stupid sometimes not even giving people the option. Nintendo could even hard cap custom themes to under 1GB and restrict the number of animated elements to conserve system resources ban hosting any themes that exceed those parameters.
paying to listen to nintendo music
Lah Mao
So your complaint is that they aren’t nickle and diming us over pointless crap like system themes?
If that's true then why does my Switch choke and have a stroke when I open the eshop and it dies trying to load a bunch of AI generated shovelware?
I have a modded a switch, I'm not paying for custom themes. I won't be anytime in the future. But they are leaving free money on the table out of stubbornness.
Kike.
I agree sorta, IF and only IF that helps me turn it on (From sleep mode) and jump into my gaming within 2 seconds then by all means, consoles didn't use to have one and if they did, it was super simple like Gamecube or PS1.
Love this for JRPGs because I can just quit mid dungeon without having to save, even mid fucking battle, it's great.
Couldn't they at least make it different than the switch 1 UI? Like having the games be arranged vertically or having a different shape ?
I FUCKING hate Square Enix because their switch icons are just a souless blank background with the name of the game in most cases, at least the PR have the Amano art.
We all know that Switch has a minimalist home menu so that 99% of the system’s resources can be dedicated to the game, and fancy animated wallpapers and music would subtract from the system power.
You keep repeating that meme, Treehouse retard. This was never a problem with the Wii, Wii U or 3DS menues, nor any Playstation ones.
You will get nothing more than "10 hours or more played" for your 10 most recent games, and you will be happy.
3ds had fancy themes and music playing yet the home button always worked seamlessly. The switch hardware is just anemic. You can tell they wanted to add themes to it at some point, but the 4gb ram held the idea back.
um actually chud why do you care about game covers? dont you want your eyes to be optimized to read the title of the game first instead of looking at useless details?
one row is very limiting.
Sad, but true.
So true!
Switchsheep wish they could have 1% of the soul that the 3DS had m.youtube.com
It's a testosterone test. More feminine men and women care about themes and customization and personalizing it to represent themselves instead of just playing a game. Same reason things like Animal Crossing and the Sims appeal to women..
dude, SQUARES!
Why are Nintendo cultists like this?
i wish we could at least get themes like the 3ds
Concept art drawings in the background
Neat. Looks really cool.
needs more option for the game grid tile, I dont care for retard wallpaper theme. I just want an easier way to browse my game without needing an extra click, maybe something like the wii and 3ds game tile
I don't know anything about that OP. But a pleasant home screen would in fact be nice
We all know that Switch has a minimalist home menu so that 99% of the system’s resources can be dedicated to the game
if that's their goal then they're failing miserably by necessitating it look like something from an Apple presentation.
Talking about testosterone in regards to literal children's toys
Implying men don't like to customize their toys
Retard.
the original switch home screen was minimalist because they put minimal effort into it, it was literally 1:1 a rebranded 2 year old nvidia shield that they slapped together didn't expect to sell anywhere near as well as it did
them not improving on it 8 years later is nothing but laziness and complacency
ITT: Tendies are actually coping and pretending to be happy while swallowing corpo goyslop.
Grim... but expected.
Tell it like it is, name names you coward: minimalism was made up by Big Small to make you buy more less
When I Bing Bing Wahoo, I do it like a MAN!
LMFAO
No where did I say high testosterone men play Switch. Just the more effeminate one is the more they care about the homescreen. Jumping to conclusions and the hyperbolic remarks are very feminine by the way.
High test men appreciate art and beauty. Hence why most male hobbies are about cuwtomizing things. Low test men swallow grey goyslop and make excuses for it.
busy and bloated
fine, but it should still have 16GB of ram instead of just 12
Yes. It was never about fancy themes and looking nice, it was about basic functionality, not having the homepage cluttered with every game you've ever played (including ones you have on cartridge that aren't in the machine) and fucking folders.
The 3DS got this right, themes or not.
They just had to go one step further and gather the separate icons into one row and remove the black line to really save on those precious System Resources.
Funny how the one thing that did change was the slap sound the new joycons made in the reveal. That was quickly replaced by the old snap sound again in the direct. Did they realise it sounded like shit or was it just too big of a sound file?
Lick that boot, yeah, lick that boot
i just want to be able to have a grid view
anyone who doesn't love this home screen is either too young or didn't actually play the Wii / WiiU and in both instances their opinions can be ignored
If you care that much about a non-essential thing like prettying up your menu screen then you're a 3DS tranny. I play games, not dollhouse sims.
This is bait right? Tendies aren’t so retarded that they think the system animations and music are playing in the background during the game.
…right?
This. A low test man wouldn't create the Sistine Chapel.
I have a Shadow the Hedgehog theme and it has 0 impact on performance.