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[Hattori]

Wired Pro controller support, HDMI bug fix, and Wii U/3DS friends are a welcome addition 😊

 

[QuixoticNeutral]

One undocumented update: "Played for a few minutes" for times below five hours has been replaced with "Played for a little while".

 

[Dremorak]

Oh wow, lots of small changes. Neat!

The greyscale one is kinda fun. Shovel knight looks like a gameboy game

 

[Spirited]

Can I, you know.

Control that manually.

No, sadly not. I think you need to own like 12 games or something for it to unlock and then to open that view you have to go through the first row, click a button and then it pops up with your whole library.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Does it give me menu music? Because I don't fucking care otherwise.

 

[James Scott]

Felt like the audio was too low on Switch so its' a bummer they lowered it, lol.
Hope they address that in the future

 

[VanWinkle]

Gotta admit, I was a little excited when I saw 3.0 in the title. There is literally nothing that benefits me in here.

 

[L~A]

Some additional changes I noticed, sorry if already posted...

Parental Control quick access to Sleep menu
option to prevent Auto Archiving (related to the new "free up space suggestion" feature, I assume
seems to have fixed the Wifi icon (or fixed wifi reception itself, to be confirmed later!)

 

[Jonneh3003]

Wired Pro controller support, HDMI bug fix, and Wii U/3DS friends are a welcome addition 😊

Yep all quite major additions. Now let's bring on media apps and everything will be dandy.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Wait, how can you add friends from wii u??

 

[jobrro]

This right here

Weird that it disables amiibo scanning

It is to prevent the amiibo from gaining sentience.

 

[Spirited]

Felt like the audio was too low on Switch so its' a bummer they lowered it, lol.
Hope they address that in the future

They didn't lower it. It's a setting that lowers it that you can turn on and it's on automatically if you have parental controls on.

 

[Vic]

"Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable"

Ohhh :O

 

[Lynd7]

Wait how does it know your Wii U friends? I don't think I ever input my NNID into the Switch.

 

[Neoleo2143]

Wired Controller Support is Huge for any competitive game. Splatoon 2 is going to greatly benefit from this.

 

[Zonic]

So what channels are appearing for people? I see:

- Splatoon 2 (in Japanese)
- Voez
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Arms (also Japanese)
- Uhh...that Project Mekuru game?

Unfortunately, I don't think you can have it set for specific users. If one user is following it, then every user sees the news.

Wait, how can you add friends from wii u??

Go to your user page, Friend Suggestions, you'll see a Wii U icon. Just note the user needs to also have a Switch or else they won't appear.

 

[stan423321]

Sounds pretty nice. I'm especially interested in wired controller mode, hopefully someone figures that one out on PC and then I can buy Switch controllers with that in mind.

The controller firmware updates though always get me confused.

 

[thatJohann]

Hmmm was hoping for something big in a 3.0 update. Nothing that I would care for unfortunately.

 

[L~A]

Wait how does it know your Wii U friends? I don't think I ever input my NNID into the Switch.

Fairly certain you need to link your Nintendo Account and NNID.

 

[dreamer3kx]

Need some store features for sure, also i liked the wii u social stuff, is that in plans, just got switch.

 

[Neoxon]

Wait how does it know your Wii U friends? I don't think I ever input my NNID into the Switch.

I believe you can sync your NNID with your Nintendo Account on the MyNintendo website.

 

[Huge Succeeded]

dammit! Why couldn't that be increase max volume?

Seriously. This is the exact opposite of what I wanted. Playing Zelda on a plane with headphones, I couldn't hear anything from the game. The base max volume is way too low.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MFMW29I/?tag=neogaf0e-20

It's pricey, but totally worth it.

So I just updated my Switch.

The new Max Volume is much louder than the old with headphones on. Raising your volume past a certain point prompts a warning about how extended listening might damage your hearing. I assume that the old Max Volume is where it now defaults to when you lower the Max Volume in the settings

tl;dr - The maximum headphone volume has been raised

 

[JoeInky]

I have no idea what the point of inverting the display colours is but I like random shit like that.

They should add another grayscale option but use the GB colours, that'd be neat.

 

[BitStyle]

Oh thank god

 

[BiggNife]

One undocumented update: "Played for a few minutes" for times below five hours has been replaced with "Played for a little while".

Oh thank god I fucking hated that

 

[BetterWorldz]

Wish they'd done something to improve the WiFi a bit. Feels like the even the original DS got better reception...

 

[ThisIsMyDogKyle]

So I just updated my Switch.

The new Max Volume is much louder than the old with headphones on. Raising your volume past a certain point prompts a warning about how extended listening might damage your hearing. I assume that the old Max Volume is where it now defaults to when you lower the Max Volume in the settings

that's great, it always seemed a bit quiet with headphones on before.

 

[aBarreras]

Wish they'd done something to improve the WiFi a bit. Feels like the even the original DS got better reception...

L A said they apparently did

Some additional changes I noticed, sorry if already posted...

Parental Control quick access to Sleep menu
option to prevent Auto Archiving (related to the new "free up space suggestion" feature, I assume
seems to have fixed the Wifi icon (or fixed wifi reception itself, to be confirmed later!)

 

[ryushe]

This new follow channel thing is pretty cool.

 

[doop_]

No amiibo while wired is to prevent hacking.

 

[Neoxon]

No amiibo while wired is to prevent hacking.

Oh, I guess that makes sense.

 

[DontBlink]

Small addition but you can now give a "Great!" or "Oh." feedback on news articles, and some show other related videos.

 

[Giolon]

No ARMS icons? Nintendo, what are you doing?

 

[Spectromixer]

I hope this fixes my battery power indicator issues

 

[ldar247]

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Still waiting for save data backup and media playback.

 

[morpix]

Improvements to prevent unintended HDMI input change with certain TVs while the console is docked in Sleep Mode

OMG Finally?! Please confirm someone!

 

[Cheesemeister]

Is it region free yet?

Well, is it?

 

[Zonic]

Small addition but you can now give a "Great!" or "Oh." feedback on news articles, and some show other related videos.

I don't know why, but "oh." is perhaps their funniest/best way of saying "I don't like this"/thumbs down.

I don't know if this was included from the start, but when looking at the play activity for friends, why are certain "played for # Hours" & "first played" highlighted in blue? It's not games that I own because it showed up for ARMS which I don't have.

 

[ghibli99]

"- Improvements to prevent unintended HDMI input change with certain TVs while the console is docked in Sleep Mode"

LOL... knew the response to this one would be huge!

 

[ryushe]

So I just updated my Switch.

The new Max Volume is much louder than the old with headphones on. Raising your volume past a certain point prompts a warning about how extended listening might damage your hearing. I assume that the old Max Volume is where it now defaults to when you lower the Max Volume in the settings

tl;dr - The maximum headphone volume has been raised

you're so right!

This update tho!!?

 

[Atheerios]

"Update connected controllers
To update, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Update Controllers"

Interesting, so now controllers can also be updated... I wonder if something like this will ever be implemented for the dock.

 

[Yukinari]

Eshop music update and better eshop layout would be nice.

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

- Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable

Megaton

What does this mean exactly? I can plug in my Switch pro controller to the bottom of the Switch, undocked?

 

[KingBroly]

- Improvements to prevent unintended HDMI input change with certain TVs while the console is docked in Sleep Mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU

 

[Blam]

Excuse me? Splatoon 2 icons are nothing??!!

Yes for a system update which jumps a complete version number icons are not a QoL or a feature that is being added.

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

Thank god they're working on the HDMI bug. I guess it's time to turn it back on and see if I'm one of the lucky ones.

 

[HyperHip]

Holy Shit Pokken Pad Works!!!

 

[Diablohead]

What does this mean exactly? I can plug in my Switch pro controller to the bottom of the Switch, undocked?

It means the controller signals are sent over the cable instead of still using bluetooth while charging from the dock.

This is probably something to do with allowing cabled controllers in the future.

 

[Jonneh3003]

What does this mean exactly? I can plug in my Switch pro controller to the bottom of the Switch, undocked?

If you wanted, most will probably do it docked though. It gives the Pro Controller wired inputs which is huge for competitive games.

 

[Vic]

Oh my god, the sound through the audio jack is so much louder. Best feature of this update!