This is so fucking boring.
Would it have killed them to at least let you change the background to whatever color you wanted?

>>715115404 (OP)
>using basic light
ISHYGDDT

I don't understand why people love customizing menus so much. I usually just launch a game immediately, and if I'm tinkering with the settings or something, having fun backgrounds is completely irrelevant.

>>715115404 (OP)
What color would you change yours to?

>>715115532
solid colors are soulless and stale and cooperate and communistic and anti individual and anti white

>>715115532
You don't have a soul. That's why you don't get it.

I've had low expectations ever since Iwata died.

>>715115532
You used to get a new PS4 menu theme with custom music for preordering games digitally and nintendo would make bank with that idea with how hard they push digital now.

>>715115404 (OP)
It's extremely fast, somehow faster than the Switch 1's. Simple and to the point

>>715115761
Playing with the menus instead of your games is soulful?

>>715115841
Iwata was only kino from the Nintendo DS to the end of the Wii. Wii U and 3DS were some absolute "dead" years of Nintendo, and since then they've produced mildly interesting things again.

I do miss that DS era though. So many unorthodox games got made and it didn't even seem like a big deal at the time thanks to the open minded dev space he created through it.

>>715115657
Purple, nigga. It's gotta be purple.

>>715115404 (OP)
>wasting ram on the OS is a good thing
really?

>>715115952
You don't change it all the time, idiot. And yes, putting some personalization into your interface can add 'soul' to it. Apple and its bland white homogenization have been a disaster for technology. What's wrong with wanting to make something look cooler than Solid Black or Solid White?

>>715115404 (OP)
kiketendo are so mindbroken about piracy that they fear letting people do that would introduce a new exploit in their console
fuck these faggot kikes

>>715116582
>NOOOOOOOOOO! you must let me steal from you!

>>715116678
imagine being this retarded

>>715115404 (OP)
Yes.

>>715115404 (OP)
>>715115841
>>715116009
At this point, I'm convinced the modern leadership dislikes system customization simply because it was Iwata's thing and he's still resented for having almost killed the company.

>>715116582
Didnt Bingtendo charge you for wallpapers on the 3ds and switch? They're probably gearing up to do that again.

>>715115952
anon was right. you're a husk.

>>715115404 (OP)
It's too risky. Colours other than white or black are too open to vulnerabilities from hackers

>>715119150
The Switch had no wallpapers.

>>715116009
Wii U was peak Nintendo, you're an idiot

The 3ds had game related themes added after the fact, maybe the switch 2 will also. It seems like the settings theme selection is designed for more than just 2 options but Nintendo are lazy niggers so I doubt it

>>715115952
Do you live in a room with only white walls, a chair and a desk?

>>715115886
>You used to get a new PS4 menu theme with custom music for preordering games digitally and nintendo would make bank with that idea with how hard they push digital now.
Nintendo did the same thing on 3DS.
>>715119547
>The 3ds had game related themes added after the fact, maybe the switch 2 will also.
Unlike the 3DS, the Switch doesn't have room to add customization. Maybe the empty space at the top and bottom can be filled up.

>>715119972
i do hate the main menu part having no space i wish theyd let me make it a grid and move shit around myself not just recently played. the 3ds was perfect to me i loved the grid and folder layout it was like a file manager

>>715115404 (OP)
It's a shame that no company tries to make their console OS fun and unique anymore. Wouldn't it be better for brand-recognition in the long term to try to create specific visuals and audio cues that players wil associate with this era? Like how people have nostalgia for the Gamecube bootup sequence. Those sounds alongside the marketing, packaging, shape of the console itself etc all evoke a certain feeling that people who remember it will think fondly of. Nobody is going to have a Switch 2 T-shirt in 20 years.

You can think of a million ideas
>Could've incorporated Welcome Tour minigames into the OS, like the mouse dodging on a calibration page. Or SMB 1-1 4k on resolution select page.
>If you leave the console idle, the avatar icon opens up like a door and a little pixel Luigi starts wandering around, if you touch the controller he gets spooked and runs back inside
>Background could change during seasons, snow during winter, leaves during fall
>Shake the console in handheld mode too much and the buttons fall everywhere
>Mario Paint type mode lets you doodle on top of the screen, write notes, or draw on screenshots
>When you plug headphones in Mario says "Oh, hello!"
>Poes show up at 4:44 am
>Deleted files eaten by Kirby
etc

>>715120448
The "fun and unique" lunchbox lost to the PS2. Hard. Gamers want sleek minimalism and the industry has been delivering that for 20+ years. We got lucky Iwata cared enough to make that style work and even stand out from the rest. His successors clearly don't.

>>715120448
>Add any/all of it
>Takes several seconds to start up
>Takes up a significant amount of data
I’m here to play VIDEOGAMES

>>715116379
>>715123209
>modern gamers are so used to poorly optimized software they think some animations that require laughable processing power will make the system chug
Grim.

>>715118956
Are you kidding? It's just some dumbass corporate decision to make everything "streamlined", because something something market research.

It's a menu. That you spend 2 seconds on. Lmao.

>>715124317
>i'm ok with 2 seconds of my life every time I use this device to be worse

>>715115532
Adding a custom background to my PS4 and computer really adds an element of cosiness.

>>715124317
This is the corporate money saving think that will rob kids of magical nostalgic memories like
>PS1 music player
>Gamecube intro
>PS2 Memory card menu
>OG Xbox UI overall
>Wii shop music
>Mii Plaza
Who the fuck is going to get nostalgic over OP's image?

>>715124095
Are you saying they're unaware of the loud tendies online who moan and complain they don't have themes anymore? That it never came to them to release a BOTW themed wallpaper swap to test the waters and maybe open up a new source of easy revenue?
Yeah, no. There's no cold business logic or trust in a research team that explains missing something this obvious. It's personal.

Console menus are for faggots. It shouldn't even boot unless there's a cartridge in the shit, and when there is it goes straight into the game.

>>715116252
Based. I’m a purple bro too

>>715118956
As per dev interviews they said the reason was that the switch was designed to be a “pick-up-and-play” console and they wanted it to be instant, whereas with all the extra stuff would make that take longer since it all has to be loaded in like with the 3ds. Yea more color options would be nice, and if they wanted to go all in they could’ve and let people weigh ease-of-use against all the decor themselves, but it wasn’t them just going “we hate fun now”

A time when nintendo console still had sovl
https://youtu.be/z3CItT7BAGA
https://youtu.be/wlfxjNeViHk
https://youtu.be/q8FL2crrVV4
https://youtu.be/Gx7sUmun6zE

>>715116009
Just because Wii U was a failure doesn't mean it wasn't full of soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_50jgjhVXQ

>>715125685
this is such a cope, nigger its le current year it would make literally no difference in load time to have a fancy theme with all the icons on your main screen. go boot up a modded wii, or psp, or modded 3ds, or even a $35 chinkshit handheld. these devices have 1/100th the power of a switch 2 in processing and storage speeds

>>715125685
I get simplifying things for practical reasons, what I don't get is the lack of an attempt to reintroduce a concept that could make them easy money. Would replacing the white/black background with a PNG from Mario Odyssey impact boot/wake times at all? Modders do way more fancy shit than that on their hacked Switches with zero issues.
IDK, I just can't see a purely technical reason for not giving us themes.

>>715127396
Nintendo would never lie about this they said it was to make things quick they wish they could make it cool but its impossible with the current technology

>>715119513
>defending the “console” that had ZombiU as a launch title
lmao

>>715127493
See, that's the thing: I understand corporations lying to justify saving a few bucks making a simpler UI, but passing an opportunity to make what's basically free money is what puzzles me.
Something as simple as pic rel being sold for $5 translates to thousands of dollars in revenue. Multiply that by hundreds of wallpaper swaps and you're looking at possibly millions.
It may not be the Iwata thing, but there's certainly some non-business reason for their resistance to themes.

>>715115657
Blue, or even a character or something since 3DS had themes you could buy. Nintendo is sitting on a goldmine

>>715119613
>comparing a living space to a "choose a game" menu
yikers

>>715115509
FPBP, using the default ass light theme is way worse, unless OP stole that pic from somewhere

>>715115404 (OP)
Why don't they add some compatibility with the Nintendo Music app? Like you can choose your Home menu music from the app. That'd be nifty

>>715116252
Based Purple Enjoyer! Same here Purple Bro

>>715115509
>>715129071
It's from the home menu trailer.

>>715119513
>Wii U was peak Nintendo

It’s debatable, the one thing I hate the most is the fact that you’re forced to use the Gamepad to change settings, free up space or even set up an internet connection. My damn charger cable is cooked and it’s hard for me to get it to work, I have to bend the wires a certain way to get it to work

>>715115404 (OP)
Nintendo is the best! Doing anything different from the Nintendo way is piracy, your Switch 2 will be bricked. Playing other systems and playing non Nintendo games is piracy, and will cause your Switch 2 to be bricked. Only play Switch 2 on default settings.

>>715115532
Is this your desktop?

>>715129897
>implying he bothered to change from the default wallpaper

>>715115532
I like to put naked women on the background

>>715131189
When I was a teen, I wanted to put those desktop strippers on every Windows XP computer I used.

>>715121767
Dumbass, the XMB was as sleek as they come and had hundreds of themes, even allowing custom images for backgrounds.

>>715129897
Unironically that is how my desktop looks

>>715115404 (OP)
That'rr be $5 extla.
Pel corol of coulse.
Prease undelstand

what's with trannies and trying to customize shit? A real man keeps it spartan

>>715115509
>Mario's page
Mario fucking Bros posts on /v/??? What a fucking loser

>>715129071
>Mario’s Page

>>715115404 (OP)
Wtf Mario is posting on /v/?

>>715115404 (OP)
Flat design has and always will be completely uninspiring and sterile. I hope Nintendo eventually figures this out.

>>715115532
I think it’s stupid too. They’re the same type of people that put almost naked anime girls as their phone backgrounds, praying somebody sees it and acknowledges them as cool

>>715115509
I know it was a left over from the 3DS, but on a big ass bright modern screen it doesn't work. Dark theme should be the default.

>>715128593
>Time obscured by the starman
>Menu buttons look out of place
>Game title hightlight too hard to see
>Background might not scroll
It's a start.

>>715129897
i just have the default wallpaper

>>715129202
God that 2DSXL was so sexy. I'm mad at myself for not getting one or the PokeBall one.

>>715115532
I think UI can be fun, it kinda feels like you're making your console a bit more personal.

>>715128593
They had them for the New 3DS line. Dunno why they didn't bring them back. For the most part they were also $1 or $2 each theme, which came with custom folders/icons, a wallpaper (sometimes it animated), and song based on the theme.

>>715127396
No a png file would not affect load times to any perceptible degree at the switch 2 resolution

>>715115404 (OP)
Forget console UI, let me change colors/themes in RPG menus again.

No folders or organization is the real crime. If you're going to make every physical game have an icon at least let me stuff them all in a folder except the one I have inserted.

>>715115727
>Ahhhh the white race will go extinct over a dull background
Why are wignat sissy crybabies and will cry and say everything is muh anti white??

>>715115404 (OP)
EVERYTHING MUST HAVE ROUNDED CORNERS GOY

>>715129202
>nintendo logo is red
>nintendo theming is red
>nintendo store is red
>nintendo mario is red
>every important nintendo system had purple
what does it mean?

>>715115532
3ds themes were pretty cool same with PS3 just seems every company hates them now

>>715136884
>every important nintendo system had purple