Nintendo Switch Version 5.0.1 Is Now Available For Download

Can we please stop with all the stability jokes!! It's so played out!

See, you say that I "literally will not be able to tell that there has been any change whatsoever" but we all know there is a very obvious major change that you cannot miss.

When I check the firmware version, it'll say 5.0.1 instead of 5.0.0

Your attempt at humor failed.

One can only fathom how much stability they can reach!!

This is the type of article that reminds me why Nintendo fans don't deserve nice things.

On separate not, Snake Pass was also updated. The old icon is dead. Long live the Snake Pass icon!

Geeze, tough crowd. Haha

@Spoony_Tech The jokes will end when the stability ends

@Spoony_Tech never!

@Spoony_Tech Until the day Nintendo decides to say upfront the update is for "patching out any possible hacking exploits" instead which will happen... never.

Well...
My Switch now is soooo Stable, i can ride on them for Horse Racing.
Eh... Oopsie.

I don't think the stability of the readership here will last with these sad puns.

And with that, I hereby suggest a name change to Nintendotroll.com. All in favor...

Finally some stability. Damn thing kept rocking back and forth >.<

@Nintendult Well isn't this embarrassing, we seem to be wearing the same profile icon.

(Granted, yours is cropped much better than mine )

Stability, as in supports third party docks without bricking the console?

@AllAmericanGeek Seems possible, but who is going to volunteer their Switch to experiment and verify?

@Spoony_Tech That's why it's so funny. Haha. The joke is so tired that it gets funnier every time.

I don't even read the articles anymore. I just head down for the stability jokes.

@Spoony_Tech ...but they're so fun to read!

@Aerona ditto! LoL!

We're already to the point of critical stability with the 3DS. I wonder when the Switch will become just as stable?

Can we please stop with all the stability jokes!! It's so played out!

That joke works better with the 3DS.

I'm tired of these stability updates. Wuzzahek Ninty

@CptProtonX Nintendo fans don't deserve nice things as in features that we should've gotten a long time ago that the competitors do?

more stability jokes, please!

Look I too want things like themes, save back ups, and folders. But I also appreciate these stability updates. Why? Because they find bugs and exploits and fix them before they become real problems.

@Spoony_Tech AMEN!!!

This is a hacking killer update. What else?

@Spoony_Tech says you. I love them.

At least we still have the ability for more stability.
For some unfortunate souls, the 5.0 update means their system has an inability for more stability.
So next time you turn on your Switch, say thank you Nintendo for the ability for more stability.

Keep me stable!!!

the first stability joke was funny
the second silly
the third annoying

knock it off

@Spoony_Tech Only when Nintendo stops first -_-

Also by the look of this comment section, I say we have some Stability Naysayers on this site. Its time we settled this once and for all. THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THOSE WHO LOVE STABILITY JOKES AND THOSE WHO HATE THEM. LET THE WAR BEGIN!!!

lol thanks, this is definitely one of the more amusing articles I've read here. You had my hopes up for a split second haha

Well there’s some time I’ll never get back...

"bringing with it a much-demanded feature that fans will be relieved to see."
...Don't...just....stop...

@SwitchVogel At the very least, there was no stability in version 5.0. Otherwise there had been no need for 5.0.1. Stability ended a long, long time ago.

A better question is, who ISN'T glad to see more Switch stability. And we likely know the answer. Well, they did tease the bull in public.

I think the sore people here are the ones who actually read this up to the word stability and realised they'd been fooled!

@CptProtonX damn. Finding the "controversial" icon intact despite the earlier PR cave-in when I bought the game last year was a big relief for me. Now I'll have to look at the initial one and remind myself not to view it as a monument to audience meddling. It IS a neat piece of artwork and deserves much better than to be associated with any fanbrained scum out there, but this is still sad news.

While I don't mind those jokes, I also don't really get them. I mean, "stability" is just code for "little useful and maybe for the future important little things that are not major enough to mention to consumers of don't concern them".

I mean, what are they supposed to write?
"implemented an easier way of freeing memory by calling object.dump()", "implemented new testing cases in class (insert Name here)." of "fixed a bug that sometimes caused a single frame to be dropped"...

Every company which provides regular patches does these things, just some wait for the next big update to have a big package (without mentioning the details either) and some others want to get them out faster in small updates.

I just have to open Steam to get some 10mb game patches without any patchnotes, same thing, really.

I wonder if this is also a stealth fix to the bricking problem.
It's possible that Nintendo takes a Cao Cao approach here: acknowledge your mistake and fix it, but never admit to it.

I prefer stable and speed over features.

If both can be achieved then yay, but the strength of the switch os is how snappy and quick it is with its games.

If the eshop loaded as snappy though...

I feel like nintendolife.com has lost its Nintendo life. 😦

Revali’s stability is now ready!

@Spoony_Tech Yeah it is played out. How quick will people be to [removed] and moan if an update that isn’t stable arises too. Perhaps they’ll rethink the position that stability fixes are somehow insignificant.

I came around on the stability joke this time

with all these lackluster updates, my enthusiasm is tumbling

Lol Stability is my Friend and memes got me on that one Haaaaaaa! Nooooooo.Coming Coming! Next Year YouTube! Web Browser! And Ohhhh Background themes with music playing in the background Yeah fingers crossed XD Ohhhh Who's Ready for Rocket League Spring Update! I know as heck I am! Tournaments and Optimized resolution btw I have a really Good Kick Azz team hopefully someone here will Challenge us and know who We Are I might be Streaming it live since its something Big now Happy Racing GooooooLLLLLLLLLLLLLL........................

@SanderEvers @Kirgo - At least most developers tell you what's been fixed, giving you a sense that something of substance has been improved.

I think more people are bitter about Nintendo's updates because we wait so long for decent UI improvements but they rarely happen or are lacklustre.

@Prizm No developer tells you every detail of what has been fixed. As in my examples, some things just don't directly concern the consumers. Some developers just hide those little changes in the next big one, which actually is more of bad, than a good thing, since useful little things get delayed that way.

It is also not like they are doing useless small updates instead of usefull big ones. That is not how it works.
So yeah, I don't get what is so funny about that. It is not even that unusual.

Sorry.
I just... had to.

Articles are written not just to entertain and to inform but also to generate a revenue. NL is a business, we get that. But can we please stop the articles about every single firmware update? Nintendo doesn't even provide change logs most of the time so what the bleep is there to report on? It's plain to see that almost every visitor of this site is tired of the "stability" joke, so please NL...stop it.

More stability is much appriciated regardles how light the Switch in dock is.

Haha, well written. Very well.

Can confirm stability; Switch will now balance stood up outside of the dock.

5.0 seemed to break something in Galaxy on Fire causing a delayed release for the game, so hopefully this is somewhat in response to that.

I was dreaming of this day, finally my switch will be even more stable! I may shed a tear.

Stability is an illusion. All the current Switch has a vulnerability that's hardware based and cannot be patched. Nintendo is introducing a new revision of Switch to fix the problem. The new firmware is only making things difficult for hackers but it can't fixed the Nvidia Bootrom exploit.

What's the difference between me and the Switch? One is getting more stable with age!

Come on, that was funny!

I'll be in the clocktower...

I thing Nintendo should stick at making games, they just can't get this stability thing working properly!

Ugh. Gotta block those hacks!

Maybe add stuff to the os Nintendo. Folders would be an amazing (and basic) start. And yes I'm aware Sony took a while with folders too.

@Vriess That's like asking NL to stop adding clickbait titles to their articles, as well as provocative flame bait thumbnails .

Still somewhat more stable than UK government...

Looks like Teresa May does the update planning at Nintendo - strong and stable, strong and stable, strong and stable repeated over and over....

Come on Nintendo give us some style and substance to these updates!!!

@readyletsgo Updates like these are not always about blocking hacks...

These is tons of stuff they can work on that is just not interesting for consumers, but for the devs.
I've tried to explain this before, but all companys that provide regular patches patch in a lot of stuff that we hear nothing about. In many cases changes like this are just part of a bigger package.

@Spoony_Tech NEVER!!!

@Kirgo ah yeah I'm aware of that. Just venting. I hear in the 5.0 update, there was an update to, I guess, 'future proof' any internal upgrades that might happen in the future hardware that the average customer wouldn't need to know about.

Stability. A good conservative value.

Stable, yes. But is it also strong?

@AlexOlney That's it! That's the Nintendo Life spirit!

Surprised they didn’t call it 6.0

I just updated my Switch to 5.0.1. So can anyone tell me what it does? Like will it recongize when I turned off the Parental Controls' timer for today when it is in sleep mode?

I wonder if it’ll get stability updates constantly like the 3ds as it’s party a handheld.

I love the emphasis on stability going on here. It extends into my real life and I feel my confidence in society restored.

But in all honesty the only thing I feel the Switch NEEDS is themes like the 3DS. It's not even necessary but that's the only thing I feel would be a feature I'd use. As far as everything else.... When do I ever just go mucking around in the menus? Almost never unless I'm looking at my friend's games etc. I turn my Switch on and play games — I don't think anything is lacking.

I was there... #Stability2018

No, I think stability is the best and most important feature and should honestly be the only thing Nintendo works on. Cant wait for Stability: The Game!

It really did come out of nowhere, but I knew it wasn't anything to write home about.

Oh cool. A reason to take my Switch out of Airplane Mode for a few.

In this one-time-only instance I really WAS super hyped for a stability update. I don't know what this fixes. But after 5.0 I noticed my Switch(s) which used to keep the ethernet/USB ethernet powered down at all times would suddenly have fully 1Gbps link while docked and sleeping after sitting for about 15 hours, and then just stay there.....more importantly, the system would run permanently warm in the dock while sleeping. And a few times I picked up the Switch to see a warning that both attached joycons had low batteries (I'd just undocked it....and a reboot would then show both batteries full.....)

So sleep wasn't fully sleeping all the time (at least if you have a USB ethernet adapter) when docked, and something was weird with the joycon charging circuit in 5.0.

I've been waiting for a really fast 5.0.1 that would hopefully fix this....and lo...here is 5.0.1.....I'm guessing they did notice the problem, but we shall see!

I tested it out and it worked! When I turned off the alarm on my parental controls app, I turned on my Switch and the alarm was off. It worked! Sweet!

You know, my Playstations have always crashed way more than my Nintendos so we really can't knock all the stability fixes

At this point, Ninty should just add a Stability icon on the Home screen and every time there is an update that is just stability, it should say 'click here for more stability.'

I figure the next update that actually brings anything of interest will either be around E3 or most likely the Fall update with paid online, sadly.

If you owned a 3DS, you're already use to every 19/20 system updates being exclusively stability.

Yay, Nintendo....

Yes! I've been waiting for this update! Finally my Switch is so stable that it can't magically fall out of my hands! Thanks Nintendo for this awesome feature!

@SwitchVogel I love the sarcasm in your article.

Good to know, but I am just going to hold out on updating my 5.0.0 Switch I like my Switch to be less stable, and there isn't really any reason right now for me to even turn my Switch on. Done played Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, and some of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe battle mode. So I am pretty much done with the Switch until e3 at least maybe longer.

I have to agree with @Spoony_Tech, the passive-aggressive sarcastic stability jokes have been done to death. They were funny, but now it's getting rather tired. These kinds of articles are just not needed. I think it's fair to say that at this point, only report on a OS update that brings with us some much-needed tweaks to the UI like Folders and the ability to store save data on microSD cards rather than being locked to internal memory, and maybe Cloud Storage capability....stuff like that. Nobody cares about stability updates.

I really want folders and themes.

TROLLED. Almost had a glimmer of hope to turn on my switch once again for a second.

And useless

@DarthFoxMcCloud In this case I actually was waiting to see a post about a stability update (see post above)....assuming it fixes the annoying issue 5.0 introduced

Though I agree that the jokes are kind of old...this was the best of them yet, but it kind of falls flat since it's such an ancient meme. But I was glad to see the news post about the firmware all the same. I was keeping my eyes peeled for it.

Wirelesss headset compatibility would be nice and I don’t mean plugging in a dongle and still having wires around!

Jesus the stability joke is so dead, please leave it be.

I like that my console receives stability updates. I want to read on Nintendolife if there's something big I should know about like themes, or new settings, something new. As for stability I'm happy to have it improve but I don't need a whole article about it, good God.

@CptProtonX Good. The old Icon was terrible. It's a good game, but seeing that crappy android app-tile icon was always just... It didn't fit in.

@SwitchVogel You mean the attempts at jokes will end when the stability ends. They haven't been jokes for a long, long time.

Who are all these people still demanding stability above everything? I am pretty sure folders have been the most demanded feature lately.

Then again, I wish Microsoft would focus on stability. My laptop has been stuck on a windows update from several months ago that it tries to install and fails every time I turn it on.

So you see, stability is rather important.

Crickets. ...

@guamyankee I refuse to buy windows PCs/Laptops but my work uses them and that stupid frown face with the update stuck at 0% drives me nuts

Can we please just have a Youtube channel Nintendo?

@Spoony_Tech Maybe Nintendo will see one of these articles and finally realise that it’s something that consumers think is rediculous and make a small change (add something minor for a small win) with each update rater than just stability.. unlikely.. but the hope is real.

Does this update fix my 3rd party accessories? >

How about a Wii U and 3DS update that removes the Miiverse icon and it’s traces. I feel unstable still looking at the darn thing.

This is literally the same article you've been talking about with the consoles and their stability. This is nothing but pure cynical clickbait.

you guys don't get it. this is a website of mostly intentionally bad comedy, of driving every joke into the ground until it comes out in japan. not unlike 'family guy.'

Anyone noticed after the update 5.0 when waking switch via the pro controller you no longer get the little haptic rumble, when it connects, I thought maybe that's what the update would fix but nope, it's not my controller because it's fine with games. Idk if it's just me, hence my asking??

Ahh man I was just thinking about more stability the other day. Thanks Nintendo, I now feel more stable

@RC_Russ98 Turn on the radio.

I was browsing the Wii eShop for final purchases over the last 2 days and could not mute the tv fast enough.

I've just noticed NintendoLife created a specific tag for Stability. Well played guys. Well played.

Xenoblade 2 runs much better after the update. Check it out in Gormott where the framerate is significantly improved...

The 3DS was born stable due to hardware design. The Switch will need a lot of stability software to make up for unstable hardware design in order to catch up to the 3DS.

I think Nintendo needs to have a stability update everyday — One every so often is not NEARLY enough since stability depreciates by the day...