When it comes to the Switch eShop, there's plenty of room for improvement. In the past, many users have complained about how hard it is to navigate the store, sift through all the shovelware, and find what you actually want.
With this in mind, Nintendo appears to have released an incredibly minor update for its online store, which might make it a little easier to identify the good games from the bad ones. When you highlight a game on the eShop now, it will cycle through images of it. Here's a look at what we're talking about, courtesy of our friend Nintendaan:
According to Daan, this preview function works across all areas of the Switch eShop and means you no longer need to enter a game page to see the images. It's also worth pointing out this update arrived before the most recent Switch system update (Version 10.0.1) that Nintendo rolled out earlier today.
What do you think of this slight adjustment? Share your thoughts below.
[source gonintendo.com]
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It’s awesome. I noticed it yesterday then I felt like I was going crazy and it did it the whole time because I never read anything about it haha. Good stuff.
Extremely minor change but every little helps.
However, when the heck are we getting a dang shopping cart!?!?!
Yeah, no. When my internet is slow, which is often, the coming soon page spends so much time loading multiple images per game it rarely loads multiple games. Why do designers think the best use of my bandwidth is to load as much crap as possible? I want as fast as possible.
Yeah I noticed that, it's a nice little feature, great for going through upcoming games.
@Mjoen I did the exact same thing, I thought I was just getting old and hadn't noticed it. Not sure it exactly helps tell us whether a games any good or not but nice nonetheless
It's a nice little update, still they need to implement a cart feature so we don't have to purchase a game one by one.
I believe, they also changed the main page of the games. But I'm not entirely sure.
@KoopaTheQuick Yeah video game trailers are always worthless, you gotta check out the gameplay videos on youtube to get a real sense of what they're like.
Well, I guess I can just highlight something else when I want to read the title.
There was a time when a screenshot was all you had and you never saw gameplay till it was in your house
Give us a Fuc###g star rating!!! So then we can actually see what's good.
Welcome to the 21st Century Nintendo!
@NinChocolate I remember those days, all you had was screenshots in a mag to decide. As a kid I could only own 2 or 3 games a year so you really had to take your time and think about your purchase. To see a game demoing in a game shop was so exciting, and I always borrowed and lent to friends. I was burned a few times of course but even if you got a game that was not so good you still played the hell out of it! Whereas today I like many have a backlog that is crazy. I have had lady Layton since day one but haven’t touched it yet! One day. X x x x x x x x
@JimmySpades My thoughts exactly when I read this. I just about get by on a 4mb connection. The eShop is slow enough as it is.... I don't want it to take even longer.
This is awesome
That's a nice little thing, but it wasn't ever much of an issue with the eShop, which (contrary to other online store interfaces) remembers where you were scrolled to when you go back from a game profile.
I think the real difficulty is researching games on Nintendo eshop
I don’t like it. Now scrolling through, if you missed the title you have to scroll off the highlighted game or wait for the slides to cycle. I don’t use the eshop much. I prefer dekudeals.com.
Very good update. I like it.
“What took you so long?”
shows how poor the experience is that this is a major improvement
It's a minor tweak, but a nice thing.
This is far better!! Only took three year lol
@Mjoen Same here. Just saw it yesterday when looking to download the Ninjala beta. I was like, what the heck? 😂
I was happy when I noticed this update and I wondered if it was always there and I just didn't notice.
That's a nice change. I have seen so many games that have very nice cover art that is not representing the in game graphics in any way.
I noticed this on the eShop the other day and, as a newer Switch owner, assumed that it was a feature that had already been present that I hadn't noticed before. Neat.
Sure wish this was optional because it kind of drives me crazy!
Whatever they do, it's just less crappy.
Seriously...Nintendo take a look around.
Yay! Happy with this update, it makes it easier to shop quickly.
I noticed it yesterday and I found it annoying. It will be interesting to see if it affects sales.
@james_squared Hard agree. It's so quick to scroll off the game's title you basically have to highlight something else to see what it is.
That’s a very nice touch. Especially with all the indie games on the eShop. Nice to get a quick peek without having to dive into the games page.
Not my cup of tea, appears to be slower, the eshop isn't the best as it is. Still a change is as good as anything I guess.
Huh, kinda like Xhamster now then?
@RPGamer Yesh!
Screenshots? Lol
I’ll still take the eshop over the cluttered mess that are on the twins. Nice new feature though.
@JayJ That goes double for mobile games nowadays.
They really need to add the title of the games under the images now if they're gonna keep this. It's actually rather frustrating when you want to see the name of the game again, and either have to wait for it to scroll through all the images or open the game's page up.
Frankly I have NO IDEA why the names have only ever been in the "Featured" section to begin with, but at least previously you could see it via the thumbnail in the other menus. This update made that significantly more inconvenient...
This is what gets us excited now?
Buying games digitally on a Nintendo Switch is a vastly superior experience to buying games digitally on an Xbox One X.
I still click on the title every time to see a bigger image 😅
@robr agreed! The 360 dashboard and shop were perfect, the xbox one dashboard and shop still are to this day a hot mess imho.
@KoopaTheQuick I haven't seen that, but that is still no indication, that would just mean how many people have bought it. I have bought lots of rubbish games. it needs a 5 star voting system just like every other platform.
It still doesn't display the game name in text across all sections of the eShop! Some game names are hard to read the from the picture! 😝
I wish they had a 2-3 second delay before scrolling through the screen shots, they start cycling even before I read the game title.
@RPGamer I still have to watch like 50 episodes. Oh, ya I can't wait for the game coming out.
@jco83 Absolutely some are hard to read. Some are in small font size, some (probably all shovelware) position their title exactly where eShop promo text would be, like "33% off". Other game banners don't even put the title in there sometimes, usually I see that in bundles, yet the base games have it.
Of course, this isn't a fault of the eShop by any means, but developers are constantly complaining about a lack of options for discoverability. Take a step back and look at what you're doing yourself first.
@YANDMAN or link it to one of the score aggregate portals, like MC
@Krzysztof No that would be silly as you can vote or 'bomb' any game that you do not own. All console system ratings can only be made on purchases.
@RPGamer M2. Been watching other anime before I come back. I can't wait for the new Bleach episodes.
Loading went from super slow to ultra slow now...great job
I really need an unofficial review of Nintendo games, the reviews on Nintendo life are brilliant. although 80% of games on switch are really good, I still need the reviews to filter out some games.
love this update
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