Topic: Why hasn't Nintendo implemented folders for Switch yet??????

Its been far too long the road now not to have them. I have so many games to scroll through and the benefit of folders would do wonders!

They need to reserve such a substantial and industry-forward feature for the Switch successor.

@Vivianeat Maybe it would slow down boot up time (something which is great as is.) Do other next gen consoles have folders? I mean, it does appear software sells very well on Switch so I'm not saying their isn't a need for a solution...but I don't think appeasing folk wanting to be able to see all their games at once instead of the 10 they are currently playing outweighs a compromise to how clean it starts up.

Probably because it's a pretty unnecessary feature. Even with 600+ games it takes me less than ten seconds to find any game I want as long as they're sorted alphabetically. It'd be pretty low down my list of potential improvements to implement if I were them.

Because this is Nintendo we are talking about.

As someone who never used folders while on 3DS, I do question how useful they would be on the Switch's interface compared to the 3DS'. The 3DS was 2 small rows rather than 1 big row and was far simpler to navigate thanks to touch controls. This could be possible on Switch since it does have touch built in but to me, while I absolutely won't argue against it, I wouldn't be begging for it either.

You forgot this is Nintendo we're talking about.
They kind of dropped the ball when it came to basic features for the system.
But most people are willing to ignore that cause it has good games.

In all honesty, as a Switch owner whose collection is 95% physical, 5% digital, I would like at minimum one singular folder. An old man such as myself has a difficult time remembering which games are physical copies and which are digital. And to have a folder in the second spot on the home menu, behind the dedicated inserted cartridge spot to separate my digital games from my physical games, would be swell.

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Folders are an outdated way of organising data.

Ive no idea if the game files have metadata tags, but I could imagine that adding and editing them could be an added feature.

Then you could create multiple ways of organising them.

If metatags were added to the game files, they could self-organise.

Only a next gen console of immense processing power could be capable of a folder.
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I have no idea, but honestly IF folders would impact speed in even the slightest (doubtful, but still), I'll keep the snappy UI over folders any day.

@rallydefault You probably wouldn't even able to notice the delay if that were the case.
But I doubt folders even affect the speed of the speed by any margin like you said.

There's already one folder on the Switch, which is the one entitled 'All Games.'

Accessing that doesn't seem to slow things down unduly. All they need to do is add the facility to create more of them.

Its badly needed and honestly one of the reasons I’ve slowed down my gaming purchases. I think the reason is laziness and nintendo as per usual being out of touch with its user base.

I honestly don't understand why on earth people keep going on about this. It's such a non-issue. What are you guys actually doing when you boot up your consoles? Scrolling through your games and organising them in the UI or actually playing them?

The only place I've ever found "folders" for games useful are the automated lists and genre searches on Steam. Especially with such a large library. Like most recent titles, unplayed titles, titles that are controller compatible etc. Same with music and movies, you split by artist/album for music but beyond that? Folders mean nothing. You just want genre searches and a list of new/recently played stuffs. When we had folders on the Wii U / 3DS the only value they ever had was to split the VC titles (and each individual system) from regular games. Which is a thing on the Switch already.....

So yeah, I don't get why this is such a hot button issue for so many people. Why anyone cares about this I have no idea

I booted up my Wii U the other day to play some Nintendo Land, and the UI is so much better.
Plus the Wii U soundtrack is amazing and nostalgic.

@Fizza
I changed the rows on my 3DS to be like 4, so I had more on the screen at once.

As a pretty much a total physical person, I dont have this problem as I put the cartridge in and it comes up as the first one.

What I want is to change the colour or theme, they gave us two at the start (white or black) but haven't expanded since, there was a few mock ups a few months ago of how the UI could look like and they looked great.

I think alot has to do with HomeBrew and likes. I think they can do the folder issue that makes system transfer alot easier rather then using Wifi and Account to move large systems over. When I upgraded to v2 Switch this took over a hour to do system migration on Wifi and both system connected to Power at the same time. This is the frustrating part the most if wants to buy a new OLED they can't buy transfer and get re-sell value back for their older v1, v2 Switch as Trade-In. That's the problem here most people just one want System unless a big family but majority is just one Console one Player. This is the part Nintendo is lacking support for to have file/folder systems so one can do transfer using their PC rather then having to do a arcane system type transfer.

I hope so but this is just software so they can still do it for the older O/S Switch consoles it's not like they can't on current systems already since they control the O/S on the Switch anyway.