The Nintendo Switch 2 was revealed almost two weeks ago and I’ve been slowly looking at various parts of the user interface thanks to the Nintendo Switch 2 home screen and the Nintendo Switch 2 website in both the US and Japan.
Nintendo Switch 2 Home Screen
The most interesting thing ever is definitely the home screen. It’s pretty similar to the original Nintendo Switch, but the game cards are rounded, with some new items along the bottom, and new multi-colored circles around them.
In contrast to the seven now, there are 10 items along the menu. they are:
Nintendo Switch Online (existing) chat (new) notifications or messages? (NEW) Nintendo ESHOP (existing) Gallery (existing) TBC (new) Controller (existing) Virtual Game Card (new) Settings (existing) Sleep (existing)
Nintendo Switch 2 Online App
The Nintendo Switch Online app will be back with a few changes. It appears to bring up many design changes from the home screen, including new multi-color selectors and rounder icons.
It would also be interesting to see what else is there, as there appears to be a new screen that displays a gallery of all the games on the Nintendo Switch online service, including GameCube games.
Nintendo Switch 2 Eshop
The Nintendo Switch 2 ESHOP has a red design, making it look completely different from what you see on the Switch today. It seems to be very clear which games are Switch 2 and which games are OG Switch games with banners present at the top of each title.
Most menu items are carried over, but some of them are new.
Featured (existing) Search (existing) Recommendations (new) Wishlist (new) Sales (existing) Ranking (existing) New Release (existing) Coming Soon (existing) Nintendo Online (existing) Enter Voucher (existing) (existing) (existing)
Nintendo Switch 2 Chat App
We also properly looked into the new Nintendo Direct chat app. This allows you to turn off and turn on items such as video, microphone, screen sharing. Perhaps you can tinker with the settings with another menu that allows people to add to the chat, but in the UI it seems to be very aligned with the rest of the Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 design principles we’ve seen.
