If you've ever owned a Nintendo Switch, you'll no doubt know what the system's menu looks like. However, a prototype Switch NAND that's been discovered shows that Nintendo had a much grander home menu for the Switch, in the early days of the system's development. The UI images are taken from a mockup that was found on the NAND of a prototype Nintendo Switch unit. The user who shared the images notes that they must be moderately early on in the Switch's planning cycle, as the final UI style was locked in around late 2016. The early menu images are dated 2015, though it's uncertain if the album date is correct.

In the images, you can see a large banner would have been displayed for each game, with the game icons shown at the bottom, as well as the battery for individual JoyCons, the Switch itself, and the internet connection all being shown in the bottom right corner of the screen, instead of the top. The mockups also show 3DS and Wii U titles being used as placeholder images.

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[K3Nv2]

This probably made the xmb drop fps.

 

[Ethelbert]

I'm gonna be real with you bros, but I don't really care about the menu. Not something I look at a lot.
Same with themes. When Atmosphere updates you always see people having issues with broken themes. It's always funny to me. I'm on default, launch a game and that's all I see of the menu.

That said, this early one looks nice.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Jeez, we were ROBBED.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

Oh my god, this would have been SO MUCH BETTER. The consoles that preceded it had art direction in their menus. The Switch has fart direction.

 

[SylverReZ]

The Switch has fart direction.

More like drift direction. Sadly on their website, there isn't an option to send your Switch Lite in for drift repairs; only the Switch V1/V2 and Switch OLED have these issues apparently.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

More like drift direction. Sadly on their website, there isn't an option to send your Switch Lite in for drift repairs; only the Switch V1/V2 and Switch OLED have these issues apparently.

Why would they care, you already bought it!

 

[SylverReZ]

Why would they care, you already bought it!

Well, I bought a used Switch Lite on my birthday, and after getting it, the D-PAD started screwing around with the controls. Doing a little endeavor with a camera, reveals that the membrane underneath has been either damaged or squished. So, I believe that Nintendo should fix D-PADs for drift, not just for the sticks.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Does the new theme break mig card thingy?

 

[jurai]

ITT: bad takes from 15 year old weebs

 

[TheStonedModder]

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If you've ever owned a Nintendo Switch, you'll no doubt know what the system's menu looks like. However, a prototype Switch NAND that's been discovered shows that Nintendo had a much grander home menu for the Switch, in the early days of the system's development. The UI images are taken from a mockup that was found on the NAND of a prototype Nintendo Switch unit. The user who shared the images notes that they must be moderately early on in the Switch's planning cycle, as the final UI style was locked in around late 2016. The early menu images are dated 2015, though it's uncertain if the album date is correct.

In the images, you can see a large banner would have been displayed for each game, with the game icons shown at the bottom, as well as the battery for individual JoyCons, the Switch itself, and the internet connection all being shown in the bottom right corner of the screen, instead of the top. The mockups also show 3DS and Wii U titles being used as placeholder images.

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We where robbed

 

[kb7cxWMSrPwL]

So not too dissimilar to the PSP, or to a lesser degree, the Vita. In a sense the Switch is also spiritual successor to the Sony handhelds, in more ways than one.

 

[eater_ofcrayons]

God I hope that the switch 2 is backwards compatible

 

[Purple_Heart]

would be cool to make a theme with that layout xD would do it but i cant create layouts.

 

[BraveDragonWolf]

The menu we have now feels just soo...lonely...

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Huge widescreen full game art per game would have been sick. Especially if it could be animated or something too.

Really interested to see if someone makes a theme of this.

 

[osaka35]

Maybe switch 2 will have something more fun and useful.

The less clicks i have to do before i get to what i need, without it becoming a jumbled mess, the better. This ui would seem to do that, but i guess speed was an issue.

They did get raked over the coals with the wii u's load time, so they most likely tried to optimized as much as humanly possible. But that's me thinking it was for reasons other than a desire to not listen to their employees.

 

[Viri]

It looks okay, so does the current one. I don't really care about features on a menu. I just want the menu to load up asap, so I can pick my video game and play. I personally disliked the Wii-U/Wii menu for different reasons.

 

[MohammedQ8]

I like current Nintendo switch menu more.

 

[jesus96]

I really hate how companies are still on the lame and simplistic style for new products like how the ps5 can't get themes but the 4th did and the switch was supposed to be like this but we got a lame menu

 

[ksc]

to be honest I prefer this one