{"id":123177,"date":"2022-03-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129166"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:00:00","slug":"talking-point-nintendo-finally-gave-us-switch-folders-in-a-very-nintendo-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/22\/talking-point-nintendo-finally-gave-us-switch-folders-in-a-very-nintendo-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: Nintendo Finally Gave Us Switch Folders, In A Very Nintendo Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4ac6829eb41c4\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4ac6829eb41c4\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"3Ok3FtBmp0Q\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>No-one can accuse Nintendo of taking its focus away from the Switch now that it&#8217;s over five years old, in fact it&#8217;s quite the opposite. The release line-up of major first-party content is looking packed, the eShop is still attracting excellent download games, and Nintendo continues to look at ways to boost the Switch User Experience\u2122. We recently had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/nintendo-switch-online-missions-and-rewards-march-2022\">&#8216;Missions&#8217; added to Nintendo Switch Online<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;ve now had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/nintendo-switch-system-update-14-0-0-is-now-live-here-are-the-full-patch-notes\">Switch firmware update 14.0.0<\/a>; it&#8217;s upgraded the Bluetooth functionality in terms of volume control, but most importantly has added folders! Well, Groups, which work a bit like folders.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of this page you&#8217;ll see our lovely video chums Alex and Felix chat over the addition of Groups, and it&#8217;s hard to disagree with a lot of what they say. This scribe&#8217;s thoughts range from &#8220;hey, that&#8217;s neat&#8221; to &#8220;Five years, it took&#8230; five years!&#8221;. It&#8217;s Nintendo, too, so rather than react to fan demands with a chirpy &#8220;hey we&#8217;ve been listening and here&#8217;s the thing you wanted&#8221;, instead it&#8217;s a begrudging rebrand doing the feature <em>Nintendo&#8217;s Way\u2122<\/em>. That&#8217;s fair enough, but it&#8217;s still odd.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Backlog Of Shame\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6cb4b059bbc4e\/backlog-of-shame.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6cb4b059bbc4e\/backlog-of-shame.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Backlog Of Shame\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The functionality itself is actually pretty good, albeit a tad uneven in some respects. It&#8217;s <em>brilliant<\/em> for taking the jumble of games in &#8216;All Software&#8217; and putting them into manageable groups. Creating a &#8216;Backlog&#8217; group is a big win, to be honest (assuming your backlog isn&#8217;t over 200 games), and should help those of us with sloppy purchasing and play habits to look at those unloved games in one place and actually prioritise them. There&#8217;s plenty of flexibility in how you name and present the groups, you can update them easily; that&#8217;s all good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Downsides? Like a lot of the Switch user interface, it&#8217;s painfully lacking in personality. No badges, colours or nice visual customisations beyond giving Groups goofy names and moving game tiles around. It&#8217;s also a bit of a pity that there&#8217;s no easy shortcut or access to Groups from the HOME screen, but that&#8217;s something that may be added in a small update in the future.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s functional, a little quirky in execution but maintaining the personality-free approach to the Switch operating system. Yep it&#8217;s Switch folders, but the way <em>Nintendo<\/em> says they should be!<\/p>\n<p>Overall though, it&#8217;s a nice update. Let us know what you think of it in the polls and comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube No-one can accuse Nintendo of taking its focus away from the Switch now that it&#8217;s over five years old, in fact it&#8217;s quite the opposite. 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