Comment by talles
2 days 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.
2 days 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.
Speaking of - does anyone know of an HTPC frontend which duplicates the look and feel of the Wii menu?
Who even runs HTPCs these days?
I 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.
people who appreciate that Roku is a marketing company and not a gadget company
It'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.
People 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.
That sounds like such an obvious oversight with benefit of hindsight. They could have instantly plugged Valorant/Apex gateway into PC established by YT Live/Twitch through that if only they had it on the right joycon.
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That's a really old-school gimmick if so.
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Yeah, 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.
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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 yet somehow awfully slow and laggy.
I disagree. I find it delightful. The sounds are awesome.
Have you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.
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The sound design is in fact delightful. Nintendo is great at sound design.
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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.
> 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).
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400MB is huge, and cute touches can be very small.
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I hated the 3DS UI. It was not exciting, it was bad and inconsistent. At least with the Switch it is unobstrusive.