Nintendo Fans Praise New Switch 2 eShop Feature, And Far Smoother Performance

Nintendo Switch 2 is retired today, and fans person been speedy to praise the console's improved eShop for adding a useful caller feature, and for not moving similar an online storefront built astir a decennary ago.

Load up the Switch 2 eShop present and you'll beryllium successful beforehand of the store's main paper wrong conscionable a mates of seconds. Browsing is besides noticeably snappier, with the virtual store's assorted sections and merchandise pages loading near-instantly.

Overall, the caller eShop has been fixed a precise affirmative effect online, wherever fans person besides noted that Nintendo has present added an "on sale" filter to the eShop's Wishlist menu.

This caller diagnostic allows you to spot astatine a glimpse which of the games connected your Wishlist are presently connected merchantability — thing that's useful if you're presently tracking a agelong line-up of titles to bargain erstwhile they're adjacent connected offer.

On reddit, Nintendo fans with a Switch 2 already successful their hands person described the console's eShop browsing acquisition wide arsenic "very responsive," "so zippy," and "finally, not a buggy mess."

As 1 instrumentality wrote: "S**t is truthful creaseless to operate, Switch 1 eShop felt similar I was connected the PS3's PSN shop."

Switch 2's eShop Wishlist diagnostic — present with an On Sale filter.

In different affirmative Switch 2 news, fans person been pleasantly amazed to find that Switch 2 Editions of immoderate games already released connected Switch 1 — specified arsenic Zelda: Breath of the Wild — are reverse-backwards compatible connected Nintendo's older hardware.

But not everything astir the caller console's motorboat has been truthful rosy. Earlier today, IGN reported connected the contented of damaged Switch 2 consoles owed to retailers puncturing the console's bladed boxes with staples. It has besides emerged that Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour — the console's $10 Switch 2 mini-game postulation that galore fans judge should person been escaped — requires you ain astatine slightest $95 of accessories successful bid to implicit 100%.

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