Opinion: Nintendo Needs To Let Us Block The Crap On Switch 2's eShop

I do think there’s way too much crap on the eShop, but that honestly wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they got rid of the horrendous lag

It's the worst. Giving us a more coherent way to browse new releases and the store in general - along with the ability to hide or better navigate our purchased games (scrolling to the bottom of my current list of games to reinstall stuff like Xenoblade really needs to work better) would be excellent too.

I have dozens of games and demos that I'll never touch again so hiding them behind a new tab like PS/Xbox allows me to do would be a great addition.

I’d love to see a ‘not interested button to hide anything I’m not interested in. Not just crap, anything at all I don’t care about.

This would actually be an amazing improvement to the quality of browsing the eShop.

I personally think they should just ban the asset flips and AI slop outright, but this would be useful for horrible companies like Red Deer who do produce real games that are potentially even decent but present them in such odious ways that I personally never want to know what they are up to ever again.

The eShop needs an overhaul that’s for sure.

When we first got the Switch my kids were asking all the time for me to buy shovelware which I’d have to say no to (after we got burned buying some).

I’m not sure if they are just older and wiser or if it’s because we are mainly physical on Switch, but my kids don’t pester me for rubbish games anymore. We have 3 Switches in the house and sharing games between them is easier physically.

Biggest fixes Nintendo need to make:

• Fix eShop
• Add Netflix/Disney+ etc

This should be done for Switch 1 and 2…

It really is horrible. I use the store just to keep and check my wishlist for discounts, and look up specific titles if I'm interested in them.

Not interested in the 'hentai' and other stuff that gets thrown in my face. Get your store in proper order already Nintendo. There is no joy in using it.

Another reason to use Deku Deals and never touch the eShop.

The Switch eshop is an abomination and needs a complete overhaul. It is just not fit for purpose.

The whole online approach needs a rework on Switch for the new console. With the Nvidia tech rumoured it could be a great machine but if it holds on to this archaic online infrastructure then I don't think it will make the impact it could do.

@Tasuki It's not just that - it's directly a result of Nintendo not bothering to set standards or police any of this. I see a decent amount of this junk on the PS5 as well, but not as much by a huge margin on the Xbox storefront.

Switch had 3 individual games that are bad AI ripoffs of the highly popular TCG Card Shop Simulator game on Steam, and none of them should have been allowed on the eShop in the state they're in and with the very obvious way they're attempting to trick people.

For a company that used to have the Seal of Quality it sucks to see Nintendo be the worst platform for this stuff.

I agree, it can be a slog to scroll through. It IS good Nintendo isn’t strict like it used to be. But there’s just so much junk on the eShop. Some of it isn’t bad like Pretty Girls Poker. But a lot of stuff is just like “Why is this even here?”. I’m not saying they need to be strict again. Just maybe categorize better of something. Even something like “related to games you’ve played.” Though I guess if you buy one of those charming hentai games, you’d probably be stuck.

Now what would be GREAT on eShop, PSN, Xbox’s whatever it’s called, and general streaming in general is a ”DISLIKE” button! Seriously. A dislike button that WORKS would do wonders. I’m sick of always trying to scroll these stores and crap like Fortnite, Among Us, or whatever stupid fad is being shoved in my face relentlessly keeps showing up. If we had the option to just press +/Start/Options, and dislike something for it to never appear again everything could be so much better. Hulu kinda lets you. But half the time everything comes back. Tubi has it, but it does nothing. I know those are streaming services, but it’s absolutely what is needed across streaming, gaming stores, etc..

They need to add a shop cart too. I'm tired of having to buy one game at the time.

I think they need to block a lot of these titles from releasing on the platform at all. I mean even if you could filter out titles I feel like managing that would be a full-time in and of itself

NO! If I have to see the hundreds of thousands of H3ntai or Ecchi puzzle games, then you have to.

I don't mind having the flood gates open for everyone. But as you say - let us easily block/ignore devs/publishers/keywords.

And for the love of all that is unholy - have more genre tags and let us combine tags for search results. If I'm in the mood for a sci-fi mecha sRPG I don't want to wade through the eShops whole "strategy" section. 😬

@Geen Amen!

They should have a eshop 2.0 ready where this crap isnt even shown, only when you lit search for it.
They should have different tabs. Like:

• First party
• third party
• indie games

Within these tabs you should have
Sales, new games (first) or the filter for most popular etc.
And somewhere in small letters the option to scroll trough all the:

• trash 🤣

I don’t have a problem with anything and everything being approved for the eShop (of course with exceptions to particularly inappropriate content but that goes without saying). One man’s idea of shovelware is another man’s GOTY so whatever, if a crap developer wants to sell crap games then so be it.

Said games should absolutely not get full visibility on the storefront though. There needs to be curation. Nintendo knows exactly which games are worth highlighting and which ones aren’t so they need to stop propping rubbish up against games that actually deserve attention. Bury the trash where it belongs and make people seek it out if they really want it.

It's funny how Jon from Good Vibes Gaming put out a video about this same problem today. I'm listening to his video as I'm reading this article and agreeing with everything.

While it would be nice to have these AI games/asset flips removed from the eShop, there's no timeline I can see that happening in. With how many there are at this point, I don't think Nintendo would go to that length. Nor do I really see them enforcing some quality standard for publishers at this point. What's done is done. That said, having the means to block certain publishers, as well as some form of rating system (and other quality-of-life features) would make all the difference. If the 3DS can have it, there's no good reason the Switch can't. If I see any more editions of Moto Racing or AAA Clock, I'm going to scream.

They need to copy steam, I think anybody should be able to put a game on the Nintendo eShop as long as it functions properly, but if it's terrible in a AI generated trick and shovelware people should be able to rate it.

Also I would not be opposed to banning publishers or some other type of limits or punishment for publishers that keep putting out loads and loads of crap. I do not browse the eShop, and this is why I buy a lot of eShop games but only ones that I have heard of elsewhere browsing the eShop, it's horrible. 😭😭

Meh, that’s why I follow sites like Nintendolife, to cast aside all the garbage and let them make a curated list for me.
Then I just wishlist them on eshop-prices com to see which country has the best price and that’s it.
I don’t think its solely the eshops fault, but people who doesnt do their homework to see which games are worth it.

It's shocking how the AI generated garbage has been allowed to flood the eShop. I know they made some effort to reduce the amount of shovelware trash on the eShop at the start, like with not allowing RCMADIAX to make Switch games. Sad to see that they don't care anymore.

Yeah, it’s a chore. I also recently quit going through last weeks releases to favorite the ones that look interesting.

And now I have extra time per week to actually spend on my backlog

79 titles in a year? And I thought Data Design were bad

I agree here- I always sympathize with y’all having to create and hyperlink and type out all those (I’ll use the words) awful shovelware games. Back in the day I used to look forward to Thursdays and reading your lists but not this generation. It’s just mud and dirt and like one or two actual games. It’s gotta be crushing for the developers too having their game tucked in the cracks between all that crap. It should be the other way around having the crap tucked in between the gems.
Options are great, I hope there are some decent tools to block developers.

On another note. I took part in one of those .99 cent game per day all month things one year and I highly regret it now. My purchase history is littered with crap games I’ll never play and have never played. They’re not downloaded but they’re on my Redownload tab with no way to permanently hide them. More garbage to sift through to get to what I actually want or need.

Last time I went through the e-Shop to check out the bargains, I spent too much time scrolling through endless heaps of garbage. It really is in a horrible state.

@Geen Couldn't agree more. There's simply no better way to hunt bargains and keep out any unwanted garbage from view. Nintendo really should take note. I want a "Don't wish"-list and simply be able to remove games from view in the shop.

I find it weird that "publishers don't want you to block them" means anything because visibility doesn't change my purchasing decisions. We can already block them mentally.

This shouldn't even need to be said!

I rarely use the estore or any store that doesn't let me block weeb or other trash. Apple is a huge problem too, just adware all day everyday. Same at play store.

Steam has it best. Just write weeb/anime as a hidden tag, and poof, you're mostly safe from their demented rotware.

Estore unusable, honestly.

It's annoying that on Switch itself, you need to open the game's page just to remove it from your wishlist. You can't remove games from wishlist in wishlist itself! It's (un-)laughably stupid.
Also, web version of Nintendo eShop on mobile/PC has more options in filter than on Switch itself! Why?!

Instead of putting the work into our lap, I'd rather that Nintendo would just get some actual quality curation on their shop for once by hiring people who are cultured in gaming and the genres at play, whether gameplay, story, visuals, art, ect.
Because they way steam does things by tags, it will blanket ban everything on your end, even actual GotY games, because a community member decided to tag it as such. So it's a wonky system that does the job crudely, hence why I think it's a bad idea to use it outside of AI, which is always obvious given the "creativity" is actually from a machine.

The AI stuff is the first that needs to go, then the ones which are clearly asset rips and copy paste soulless puzzle games we've played a billion times. If they do that, then I'll see that the eShop is generally putting out quality that generally doesn't appeal to me instead of something I can unashamedly call bad and a waste of internet load speed just to get to the potentially good stuff.

@Geen yeah. Dekudeal is where its at!!

@N8tiveT3ch Give me real ecchi and eroge, not this cynical AI generated slop produced by people who's sex ed came exclusively from watching too much pornhub....

I want real cultured stuff like Trouble Days, Senran Kagura or Saya no Uta on my Switch.

I rarely use the eShop now. I just got on Deku Deals. The amount of lag on the eShop is more frustrating than the shovelware in my opinion. There's absolutely no excuse for that.

@Samalik heh, alright alright I feel ya.

I actually don’t think the solution to all the dross is to add in better filters but to try and drive it off the platform entirely.

I’ve long felt that the solution to all the shovelware is to mandate a minimum price of something like £15. My thinking is this would discourage developers from listing stuff they know no-one sane would pay that much for. A solid refund mechanism for any poor souls who get suckered in would help too.

It's kind of insane that Nintendo went from one of the most the most curated storefronts to becoming one if the most p*rn-filled, plagiarism-ridden storefronts in a single generation.

Giving us the option to filter out certain publishers on the eShop would be huge. So many asset flips, shovelware, and just straight up trash out there. So many variants of Clock, Calculator, and spicy anime characters.

switchscores is the best site to see what decent games have been released imo.

I wish I could remove/block games from the lst, would make life so much essier when browsing.

I agree and disagree. I agree with the problem, but I just think the solution is that Nintendo should take a bigger role in promoting “real” games to the top of searches, sales, new releases, etc. And if you REALLY want to go mud larking in the depths of the E shop for the perfect ecchi puzzle it will be there waiting.

The eShop needs a complete ground-up rebuild. It was an inexcusably awful chore to navigate eight years ago and somehow it's not gotten better at all.

My guess for this gen on why the eShop sucks on Switch is cause Nintendo purposely made it sucks as a way of punishing those who once abandon the Wii U. Y'all were not there when the eShop was great so now y'all got a crappy one. Get use to it, fortunately I had a feeling this is just their way of collecting feedbacks so they could improve the Switch 2 ones and then pretend that it was their idea all along. Nintendo ain't dumb, they knew it sucks and made it sucks on purpose cause of our sins from last gen. Just hope that next gen would be better, they ain't fixing the Switch one.

I think the limit of wishlisted items needs to be raised, as I hit the cap hard earlier this year due to my unemployment and for the past four or five years I have been grinding hard against it. I see that as a bigger problem than the "noise" on the eShop, because the only fix is to create and maintain a second wishlist (in my case in a text file currently stored on my laptop) of links to the product pages on the eShop that I can't add.

Until I can comfortably add more, I guess you can say my desire to actually want more is greatly limited. Once I can, and therefore want to add more, shortly after I'll probably start caring about all the trash. But even then, maybe not--because don't sites like this one have plenty of articles of "best games of X type on Switch eShop?" Then there's word of mouth.

I've taken to using Deku Deals and just ignoring the actual eShop on the console. I browse for games using Deku Deals, I use the links there to purchase them, and if I have to activate a code I use the Nintendo website from a computer.

Can't have it both ways. I'd rather they not make it impossibly difficult for games to get on there. I can search for what I want. I can scroll past what I don't. All they need to do is make the eshop faster and maybe bring back the seasonal music. But I suspect they won't because a slow moving shop makes it harder to fast scroll and more likely to snag impulse buys. All their eshops have been slow, and I'm sure that is not on accident.

Remember Drink Driving Simulator? Is that still up?

I would really like to be able to sort my wishlist by price. Right now it's sorted by the time the game was added, with no options at all on resorting it.

Filters to block out AI generated content would also be nice but I definitely don't want Nintendo censoring games on their platform like Sony does.

Ecchi Oppai being the title of a game you can buy on Nintendo Eshop is crazy. The title literally means Lewd Tits.

If I can block the unwanted eshop games from my sight, the first thing i'm going to do is BLOCK All the rated 18+ games then the hideous AI looking games.

I find the search options on Switch eshop more robust than Xbox or PS but the lag absolutely kills it.

Don't care about user reviews, something is either the best thing ever or the worst and ergo completely useless.

it cant be that hard to let users block certain publishers from appearing in our feeds. that way indie developers wont be inhibited and customers wont have to deal with the "games" that are even an insult to shovelware. win-win

but yeah, this shouldnt even have to be a consideration. surely nintendo are losing money by having a barely-functioning eshop? theres essentially no "new releases" or "sale" tabs anymore since these are full of ai slop, so new games have less of a chance of being discovered and purchased. the 3ds eshop was pretty great because there was actual moderation. nintendo should punish publishers who constantly release things that can barely be called games, instead they push everyone toward dekudeals for god knows what reason

I agree, but there may not be a viable solution given the amount of shovelware. Maybe nintendo could add a 'shovelware' filter tag.

Like others I imagine, I check a dozen or so 'recent releases' and 'coming soon' at a time. I don't slog through the sale games anymore.

Don’t forget to pick up Monkey Kong which is coming soon… a rip off of Nintendo’s own IP, lol

I -really- hope the new system arrives with an empty eshop, and that developers have to re-release to make in on there.

Can't they just unlist stuff that doesn't sell from non trusted developers (Maybe after the first sale?) Not so much an elitist curation, more like containing eshop swell. I mean, if shovelware sells enough to keep a roof over someone's head then I guess that kind of nullifies any sort of argument for blocking / filtering etc. Surely they can't sell that well? Can they?

Interesting to hear what the preservationists have to say about delisting anything...

It’s slow and there’s no sense of discovery. Fix that first

It's not going to happen.

I still say Nintendo should have a curating process. They can still have it so anyone can add stuff on the eshop, but in order for it to show up without users searching for it (ie show up on the front page) it should have to be selected by Nintendo.

Remember they shut down WiiU and 3DS service, but have the server traffic for all this junk.

There HAS to be a happy medium between blocking Binding of Isaac, and having no curation at all. All these copycat unity asset flips are not hard to identify.

I love me some Deku Deals, but even it is missing the ability to block entire developers/publishers wholesale instead of having to hide each game one-by-one. I saw a ton of those hentai games show up in the Latest Deals section the other day and I started to block them, then gave up when I realized how vastly outnumbered I was, lol

It is disappointing that I can't just cut my children loose to window shop on the vanilla e-shop. I don't know about parental controls (my kids are 2 and 8 months so no need to do that yet.) But I'd rather it not come down to parental controls since I'm a parent and don't want to see any of that myself either.

I really hope that the eshop adds a filter feature or at least a hide feature, even if we manually have to do it!!

Also, it would be great if the eshop was a little more informative with analytics of how many sales, ratings (👍👎🏻 in the very least), if not allow comments on games such as steam.... obviously with a heavy flagging of certain words and abusive language.

On a level of going further.... it would be nice for Nintendo to employ the quality seal again.... to designate between indys and 3rd party along with smaller game studios with as being FEATURED as they do with their Independent Showcases as they do.

Maybe even encorperating the software ratings as all physical games have in most countries.

The one thing I'm jealous about in regards to the Wii U is its eShop structure. I still know what to search for, but not everyone is like me. They should've kept that structure.

@RejectedAng3L allowing for ratings and comments would result in insane review bombing.

@Fortang1980 It sure looks like it's gone. It doesn't have an image in my purchase history. Which means that between me having it on my Scarlet/Violet OLED Switch and the NSO Playtest Program, I have a one of a kind console that could command thousands of dollars online /s

It really is a mess. I've been trying to maintain a thorough eshop wishlist for years just to avoid sifting through all the garbage more than once, but I've repeatedly hit the entry limit and had to trim it down. No idea how many decent games I've lost to the sea of shovelware at this point. There is at least a way to block higher age ratings from the eshop, but as far as I can tell, you can only do it for children's accounts, and only through their website rather than the console settings.

I’ve never once experienced this issue. Because I NEVER browse the eShop. Why would I? My gaming time is limited, why would I waste my time doing that when I could be playing games.

I only ever search for specific titles I know I want on the eShop, to either buy there and then or add to my wishlist so I don’t forget about them. If I come across an interesting game in my travels then again I’ll do a specific search for it. That’s it. Simples.

It's not just about hiding the rubbish... people would buy more if they can find it. I got stung one too many times with utter rubbish so now I don't buy anything on the eShop.

I'm sinking all my spare cash into second hand games now, but that's another story entirely.

Fact remains though... Nintendo have lost my custom because they can't even be bothered to hire an intern to sort eShop titles into categories and lists.

Back when games were 100% physical it was a lot easier to pick a quality game. People don’t seem to realize how much the digital game movement is destroying gaming not only now but for the entire future if it doesn’t stop.

Someone here told me today there wasn't any games like these terrible games on Switch because of Nintendo's strict quality control...They were supposed to only exist on PC.

Anyway. If you use GG Deals site as Switch shop, you can block any game you want.

Steam have a block button for these games.

@GravyThief That's fine if you're only interested in megahits or critical darlings, but some of my favorite Switch games don't even have a metacritic score. I never would have known those existed if I didn't look for them myself.

never seen any of those games in the article. I just want a larger wishlist. I keep maxing mine out.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the eShop slop would be 1000% more tolerable if the eShop itself wasn't so horrible performance-wise.
OK so you need to scroll through 30 crap games to see last week's new releases. But should it really take like 5 minutes to scroll through 30 games?? These things are just jpegs with a price on them - a web browser could scroll through hundreds of them in a split second. Why does it feel like I'm torturing my Switch whenever I want to browse through their shop?

@GrailUK
I mean, I'm usually all for preserving even bad games but even given that it feels like theres a difference between a game which is bad and those asset flip or ai generated games which flood the store

That said i agree with what commenters like @N64-ROX mentioned in that a lot of it would be a lot more tolerable to scroll through if it wasnt for how much of a hassle the act of actually browsing the eshop was, both on a performance level with the menu lag and how things like the sorting and filtering isnt quite as intuitive as it could be.

am hoping the switch 2 has an overhauled eshop, i felt the wiiu one was pretty good but then we didnt see how it would have faired if the wiiu ended up as popular as the switch and was flooded with games, but it did feel easier to browse.

also hoping switch 2 has eshop music.

I’m all for this. I want to block games, terms, AI and publishers. I’m never going to buy an AI generated visual ‘novel’. I’m never going to buy anything with the term ‘hentai’ in it. I’m never going to buy any of the games RedDeer Games published a ‘new edition’ of each month such as ‘AAA Clock Special Definitive Gamer Deluxe Edition’ or ‘AAA Clock Ultimate Definitive Gamer Deluxe Edition’.

But I might be some other stuff that I currently can’t find as it’s buried under all this garbage.

@Magician Filtering out publishers will not work. Many of these shovelware publishers often go by many names. If they find out if their products are filtered out by their company name, they will just use another.

Like most, I sort games by review score on deku deals, set up an email alert for when it reaches the right price and never scroll through the eshop.

I'm sure I'm missing the odd hidden gem without enough metacritic scores.

One way Nintendo could allow people to sort through the crap is to allow user reviews on the eshop like they did with the 3ds. They wouldn't allow people to review a game unless they had bought it and played it for at least a few hours which prevented fake reviews.

I know in its current state its terrible, but i kind of enjoy browsing through and reading the descriptions of terrible games sometimes. I use deku deals for legit shopping.

Also, i think its great that they allow more adult orientated content these days, though there should probably be some sort of filter for children and puritians.

I have literally thousands of blocked items on my dekudeals, something like 3000 blocked items.

Sounds like we're largely in agreement here. I want to block all games that try to sell on an AI or anime picture of cleavage. Pitiful and depressing is right!

There's far too much crap clogging up the e-Shop & it's already slow as is. If it was me I'd flag the Hentai/ecchi stuff as well as the AI & those awful "brain rot" phone games that are usually flooded with endless ads every few movements on the phone side. It's seriously annoying that I can't flawlessly go through the coming soon section without seeing some variation of that garbage on there. Nintendo is already draconian with the legal stuff why not bring some of that to the e-Shop to curbstomp the endless slop on their shop? Hentai/ecchi banned because the kids could come across it if the parents are too lazy to work the parental controls.

It’s surprising that the problems have persisted so long. It’s another online thing with bad servicing from Nintendo. But they’ve made more money than all their other consoles so why improve? They’re richer today for not doing anything. May it not always be the case.

I agree. It's my most despised thing about Nintendo right now. They make zero sense allowing all the trash and clutter. Won't let two adults have a chat feature to play Tetris but I can download nsfw anime child pic puzzles all day for .99¢...

@nocdaes you could always use their website. I'm shocked at how much better it is.

Just a reminder that Switch 2's eShop is going to have Switch 1 games too. I think Nintendo needs to take action so that this slop isn't included in that catalog.

Maybe someone mentioned this but I didn't see it anywhere. Wouldn't the best solution be to toggle a filter that hides games with fewer than a certain number of downloads/wishlistings?

Maybe that's confidential information or something, I don't know, but I think that would solve the problem much more than hiding certain publishers or genres, which will almost certainly be worked around by developers. Sure, some cheap stuff may sucker enough people to break a given threshold. But for the most part, consumer knowledge, word-of-mouth, and sites like this will do the job of separating the wheat from the chaff, as long as there's some convenient way for us to see what everyone else is playing.

Ideally, there should be a "spam folder" of sorts, where these games get automatically shunted. In practice, if Nintendo could categorise games into major games, indie games, and casual/frivolous games, then we could easily filter the shop accordingly.

I don't have any issue with the shop opening in its current format so every new release is visible. Just give us the option to cut down that list with a click. That would be invaluable if you don't check the shop often.

To be honest I can't remember the last time I browsed the eShop for games. I already know what I'm looking for before I go to the eShop and if not, it's already in the wishlist.
I agree a publisher filter would be useful, and that Nintendo should mandate AI generated games being labeled as such. Having to get all my info away from the eShop before I get to it can't be a win for Nintendo, can it?

you should be able to say you don't like a publisher and then you don't have to see hentai games in your feed anymore

People who insist upon using Bluesky are funny

I do not agree with the opinion we need to be able to block games or publishers on the Switch 2 eShop.

We need that ability on BOTH eShops. Switch isn't dead the moment Switch 2 releases. It will still have years left to it.

The switch can’t even run its own eshop without lag. It’s such a massive slog. Switch 2 will be the first Nintendo console that has a lag-free eshop. I hope!!!!

Blocking the crap would be a massive improvement.

Nintendo's eShop looks like Apple's appstore
1% good games, 99% crap

To date, I have now hidden 2931 shovelware items on psprices. So sick of seeing weekly re-re-re-re-releases of 'Diamond', 'Gold', 'Platinum' versions of the same weekly tripe, which takes up so much space in every catergory like Coming Soon, Offers, New Releases etc. That sort of stuff should be banned. So many true indie gems get burried under that trash.

I never even use the eshop. I discover games via gaming sites and I buy games via the Nintendo website.

Even if the eshop were fast and easy to use I don't see why I would. I'm never going to buy a game just based on a blurb and some screenshots.

I can't tell, is this an article about Nintendo's eshop, or a testimony to what the internet has become?

"Love Elysium: Secret of the Goddess" and "Pick My Heart Chapter 1" are literally the same game. How do they get away with this?

Another way to filter through the crap is adding games to my Wish List. Every Thursday, I check the Wish List to see if anything has gone on sale so I can buy it.

There needs to be a curating process - either Nintendo do it and set a basic level of quality or somehow let me design and save my own filter. The only way I use the shop now is to search for something by its title name that I already know. Life is too short for keyword/combination searches as it's just chock full of crap. This is bad news for smaller developers and is a real step backward. The chances of stumbling across a gem are vanishingly small unless it happens to have been reviewed on NL. The only people this benefits are the shovelware/AI generators not genuine vendors. This late in the cycle we're going to have to shrug our shoulders and hope things improve.

I remember once upon a time when everybody complained about what Nintendo wouldn't allow on their digital storefront, and now look. While I'm sure no one asked Nintendo to completely take curation off the rails, some of this was to be expected. They absolutely need the ability to literally block games or Publishers of your choosing. The other thing I think they should do is if a game does not reach a certain threshold of downloads, or money, within a period of time, and/or low or no ratings, then it be removed by default. In English terms, if it's trash, no one is buying it and no one is talking about it, and that should automatically remove it from the eShop.

There SHOULD NOT be 40 new games a week. Only 1-5 are actually real proper games. It just saturates the market and makes it hard to find good content with devs that actually give a damn.

Give me the good 'ol days where Xbox and Nintendo actually had standards and would reject this dollar store trash. I'd rather miss out on a hidden gem (like once a qtr) than have to deal with hundreds of crap games each month.

• Against the ridiculous pricing / constant sales: if a game is on sale more than 4 times a year (once every season), the sale price would automatically become the standard price (it wouldn't appear in the 'Current Offers' menu anymore).
• Against shovelware: bring back the 3DS rating system (those who buy it and play at least an hour with it, can rate it) and let players filter for 1-2-3-4-5 star games.

These would be easy to implement changes and a lot of problems would be solved. (Not the lag, though.)

I agree, it was what set the platform apart from uncurated platforms like the playstore.

The eShop in general needs a makeover. Nintendo's a fun company, how can their digital storefront be so dull?

> Ecchi Oppai
> Hentai Girls: Racy Rabbit

I roll my eyes, just looking at these. Especially the first one if you have a bit of Japanese knowledge and ESPECIALLY if you watch the first word of the second quoted game.

How the heck does these two titles are allowed to exist on Nintendo's eshop with these names? That's rated "A" for adult bait (but they can't be since Nintendo does not allow R18 games (no current mainstream VG storefronts do in fact)).

For those who are unaware, the first "title" I quoted basically translates to "Perverted Boobs".

I use this website and the reliable youtuber Nintendo gamer stations to help me decifer what is worth it and what isn't. I rarely browse. I used to for bargain basement stuff, but not anymore because the mountainous backlog. It IS overloaded with dross though. Wow.

The block feature I feel won't happen. The devs and producers will complain because they would want as much visibility as possible on the eShop. Shame, tbf.

@Vyacheslav333 there's a trash can icon next to every entry on your wishlist, you don't need to open the game's page to remove it just click on the trash can icon. It's very simple

The eshop is like the Death Star garbage compactor scene - the longer you're in there looking around, the more the garbage crushes in on you.

Personally, I would prefer a curated - gatekept even - experience to the unmanaged landfill we have today. But hey, some people love dumpster diving, so que cera, cera.

Either way, I buy physical 90% of the time. I'm thankful for that option, and hope it lasts.

As someone who 🏴‍☠️ games I almost didn't even understand the complaint at the beginning. Been a long time since I've seen the eShop 😅

My eShop is called dekudeals. I haven't launch the switch eShop in ages because it's a slow unusable turd. I'm not sure it's much better on other consoles. I haven't bought a single game via the PS5 eShop either.

@batmanbud2 if they (developers) make good games then they should live without fear. The companies that churn out A.I. art/visual novels and Hentai games deserve it!