Switch Parental Controls App Update Suggests Firmware 5.0.0 Isn't Far Away

Ooh, that would be cool.

Filip Miucin has grown on me since taking over as Nintendo editor at IGN. Seems to have found his feet now

Not coming in 5.0.0: Any of the things you are hoping for

Not expecting much though...

Patiently waiting for some nice themes for my Switch. Don't care about any apps or extra features like playing music or whatever. We have other devices for that.

We're going to be 5 times as stable soon.

@BARSAMAN I have themes on my 3DS, thus i don't need them on my Switch. Yes i'm being obtuse but that's the logic you're employing here. Having more features on the Switch means having the option to use them on Switch instead of another device if the user chooses.

Later today then?

Finally!!! Freaking Nintendo wants to give us a new firmware update since what? December now after 4 months ago seriously when we should be getting every month like Every single other console is getting them ps4 xboxnone which they get pretty cool features and what do we get? This crap

@G0dlike No, sorry, I disagree. I think he's terrible and certainly not a patch on Jose. Peer is good at hosting the show, he should do it. I don't know if he's worried that because he co-founded the site that it would seem as favourtism or maybe he just doesn't want to do it. Sam Claiborn would be another excellent presenter, he's gone a great job anytime he had to fill in. The things Flip(as Peer calls him) hopes for in the update are so lame and tame. He's making sure not to step on Nintendo's toes. How's about something useful being added, like a web browser or folders?

So when will Nintendo release a password unlock option seeing as the machine is portable? Even the PS4 has password protection.

This needs to be done yesterday.

@Folkloner
Sure you're right, if people want to watch Netflix on their Switch it would be cool if it's possible. Personally I just want to play games on it, that's it.

Just hope that if they add stuff there's an option to keep it off the homescreen if you don't use it.

Jose was really great, no wonder Nintendo snapped him up. Peer is incredibly insightful and clearly a very well educated, intelligent man who holds the camera very well.
I personally feel that Filip, despite being a bit of a drip, has started to try to move the show in a new direction, more regular updates, extra content, let’s plays etc.
Not perfect, but growing on me!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

@Latinomex01
Crap is what PS4/XBO offer. The Switch is the closest we got nowadays resembling a pure gaming console, where you turn it on and it immediately starts the game without other unnecessary, unrelated [removed]. The only thing that would be nice in the future are folders, but besides that I donˋt realy care or need.

Coming in update 5.0.0: EXTREME stability.

Cya
Raziel-chan

@Ooyah sorry I think your wrong. It’s cute hd men with 6 packs. You forgot the HD

I'm expecting this update to be very stable...

I wonder how many parents actually use the app, or even know it's actually a thing.

I would like to see a few more new gamer pics and themes available

@Fuz I've been hoping for that feature since I found out the switch doesn't have it by default.

Switch is catching up with PS4, firmware finally reaching 5!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
I like Sam Claiborn on gamescoop but I think that he focuses on Nintendo history to much when he hosts NVC.

@G0dlike
I like Filip so far. Jose was good but he always rushed through or skipped the question block segment.

I think the real news here is the whitelist for the parental controls app...

No, seriously, as a parent that is awesome! lol.

To be able to re arrange icons would be very welcome thank you and goodbye.

Folders please!!!

The reason they'd do this is because the update probably isn't that huge and mainly contains the parental updates. Still, it is interesting to speculate what Ninty's up to with this one.

@Ooyah Yes Sony is evil but you're forgetting that it's okay to have a PS4 if you're going to play The Sims, because that game has shirtless guys with hd six packs and you can marry them.

...also Portal Knights but that has a Switch version now so the other versions must be destroyed!

@Zuljaras so glad I blocked that creeper months ago.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE @G0dlike Odd - I never liked Jose myself. He always sounded like a huge fanboy rushing to Nintendo's defense over every little thing. And I say that as a Nintendo fanboy. Not that I thought he was terrible, mind you. I'm sure Filip will gradually improve as well, though I do enjoy when Peer or Sam host the occasional NVC.

@Ooyah never ever can I forget this this. Sony is evil and always making people sin. Sin is bad. We should always play good appropriate games that the boards have chosen for us to play. Again I must tell you we can defeat the devil that Sony is with the power of appropriate games

Lord Nintendo, I just pray that the next update will offer more than just humble stability. In Mario's name I pray, amen.

5.0.0 was gonna happen in the next few months at the latest. Safe bet.

My hope for the OS remains themes, folders, and a proper activity log.

@Folkloner actually, I’d be kinda on board with that. System loading times on the 3DS noticeably dipped once they added the option to have themes. Even if you opt for the default vanilla option from launch, it still takes longer to load now than it did before, because the system needs to verify what that setting is.

It may not be a huge delay, but it’s there and as someone who was used to the old speed of the system, the added pause is disappointing. You get used to it, because you have no choice, but still...

It’s nice to have the option to customise, but to suggest there is no possible negative impact on the system is disingenuous.

On the other hand, having 100% optional apps like Netflix or YouTube is completely fine. Don’t want em? Don’t download em. Just don’t make it mandatory to download and install a system-impacting option that may not be wanted just for the sake of offering options.

@roadrunner343 Jose was around during the WiiU days and I can’t help but remember him being pretty tough on Nintendo on the usual, and almost predictable, dumb moves they made during that learning curve of an era. To each his own Though. 🙂

@Bruh That's a given, though. Even the fanboys have to do that =) But still, I remember him sticking up for certain choices, while everyone else on the show disagreed. Again, I didn't dislike the guy - just something about him as the host that irked me every now and again. Just a personality difference, I suppose.

@G0dlike He’s certainly better than some the cracker jacks on that site.

I use the app to control my daughters Switch

A proper data management system would be nice where you get to decide whether your games are on the system memory or the microSD card.

@NintyNate Pearl and Marina.

Cool to see so many NVC fans in here. Get the thing. (Still not sure why Peer says that, but I dig it)

@Dizzy_Boy "how many parents actually use the app"

I use it, but not to control my kids, but b/c Ntineod left out the log after having it in Wii, Wii U and 3DS. It doesn't do as good of a job of tracking as the Wii U or 3DS, but the app is much better than the Switch itself.

Though I agree with your overall assessment that probably not many parents beside myself are using it. But, and this is just a hunch, most of the 15m Switch sold are going to gamers for Zelda, Splatoon, ARMS and Mario, more than kids. Once Pokemon releases I think you'll get more kids on the system and maybe more parents using the app. Maybe if parents pick up some Switch for Labo use. Really there shouldn't' even be an app, it should just all be on Switch itself, but you probably already knew that.

Voice chat and themes and folders and an improved shop and a browser and applications! - The clueless optimist

I want themes, folders and a more user friendly eShop. And don’t forget about saves backup, either to the cloud (probably not coming until September at the earliest) or to a micro SD card.

No VC, no update

Over a year later, we should be finally getting savegame backups. With a x.0 firmware release, it would suggest something massive in the updates which should definitely include savegame backups. So, it's almost guaranteed this won't have savegame backups... because Nintendo.

#SaveOurSaves

Despite the jump to a new version number, I'm going to keep my hopes aimed low and hope for something easy to implement.

How about other color options for the home menu beyond the basic Black & White? We don't even have to go with a full on theme shop like the 3DS. Just a Red/Blue/Green option would be nice.

@Latinomex01 I don’t want updates constantly. It seems like every other time I use my PS4, it or the game has an update, which I’m too impatient to wait for and just end up playing switch.

While I don't think huge features will be revealed, as I reckon they could of briefly mentioned things like apps and a web browser at the Direct very quickly, but we could see the little things like folders at least.

Can we have a Princess Daisy profile picture in 5.0.0

Who cares if or when 5.0 comes if it doesn’t include anything cool

@Donutman auto updates ....they work

@ValhallaOutcast which adds to my annoyance with these consoles. It’s not always in stand by mode. It goes days without use especially since I got my switch. I guess I should I at leave it on 24/7 waiting to be updated.

@Donutman you need to get out of that mindset that standby mode is a bad thing for the console , it’s designed to always be in standby

So, stability-wise, is the Switch catching up on the 3DS? How many years would that take? Anyone?

@Dizzy_Boy Thats a good question. I know I personally use it. Kudos to Nintendo for a really well done app. It works as intended. My only gripe is that notifications for wrong pin entry sometimes comes much later. So once, I freaked out at work that someone had broken into my house and took my Switch. My daughter was with my mother in law. So I knew it wasn't her. So it had to have been a notification from much earlier. It happening again another time.confirmed it

This Nintendo Switch have so much potential but they develop it so slowly...

@MrBlacky Like I said before we haven't had any Any new features put on the Switch to make it The ultimate Gaming console as you said which it lacks apps,Folders,Cloud Saves and a Really Good Web Browser,YouTube,etc the list goes on and on as all the other home consoles have that already why can't we? U get my point right? We at least deserve all that crap in Our Nintendo switch home console at least not some old out dated crap that we have no use for not even Themes on ur home screen we can put.

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