{"id":99963,"date":"2019-09-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/talking_point_please_nintendo_can_we_get_these_things_in_switch_firmware_version_10"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:00:00","slug":"talking-point-please-nintendo-can-we-get-these-things-in-switch-firmware-version-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/talking-point-please-nintendo-can-we-get-these-things-in-switch-firmware-version-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: Please Nintendo, Can We Get These Things In Switch Firmware Version 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new firmware update for Switch has dropped<\/a> and we\u2019ve spent a good amount of time today examining the minutiae of Version 9.0.0. The jump from v8.1.0 has brought a few minor enhancements along with it, including the ability to search for specific articles in the News Channel, use a QR Code to interface with your Nintendo Account, set alarm notifications in supported software and change the sensitivity of the touch screen to better function with a stylus (handy if you\u2019re playing Super Mario Maker 2<\/a><\/strong>). There\u2019s also a Switch Lite-specific feature enabling you to turn on\/off button input while you\u2019re playing with a wireless pad.<\/p>\n

A sexy blue notification LED<\/a> that had us reminiscing about the old days of Wii and Wii U has also apparently been activated with this update, although an inter-office, cross continent effort to activate the blighter by sending a litany of invites and requests failed to result in a cool blue glow emitting from any of our pads. Quite why Nintendo would wait until thirty months after launch to activate this neat feature is a mystery, but we get the feeling that these \u2018alarms\u2019 and \u2018play invites\u2019 for \u2018supported software\u2019 probably refer to the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>. After all, you don\u2019t want to miss the opportunity to flog your turnips because you slept in on Sunday, so a little alarm function on your Switch with lights and vibrations will come in handy. In the meantime we\u2019ll continue trying to make the Home button light up (or just cheat and connect it to Steam) because we find these tiny bells and whistles inordinately exciting. Just look at that blue!<\/em><\/p>\n

Still, there remains a host of features or alterations we\u2019d love to see in future updates. We love Switch\u2019s laser focus on games, but there\u2019s plenty of room for the inevitable firmware v10.0.0 to provide some of the features we\u2019ve enjoyed on past Nintendo consoles and have come to expect on a modern console. They’re familiar features and reasonable requests – it’s about time they turned up.<\/p>\n

So, here is a short and sweet list of the top 5 things we\u2019d most like to see in the next<\/em> significant firmware update…<\/p>\n

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