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Hideki Kamiya Calls Nintendo Switch Home Menu A “Piece Of Crap”

Hideki Kamiya, producer at PlatinumGames, is known for making very harsh and frank comments on Twitter. A few days ago, he’s made another one. The creator of Bayonetta blasted the Nintendo Sw…

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Delete if already posted...and a mod can make a correction in the title about Kamiya's name ?

 

[Mista]

Kamiya can fuck off. He's always complaining and shitting on everything like if he's the superior

 

[Virex]

He's not wrong

 

[mcjmetroid]

Kamiya can fuck off. He's always complaining and shitting on everything like if he's the superior

He comes off like a gigantic asshole alright. Imagine getting that upset about a menu.

Plenty of other switch related things to get upset about.

 

[joe_zazen]

Love that guy. Wish i loved his games....

 

[Mista]

He comes off like a gigantic asshole alright. Imagine getting that upset about a menu.

Imagine blocking everyone that's being nice to you? Imagine complaining about literally everything? What a prick

 

[ThatGamingDude]

Kamiya can fuck off. He's always complaining and shitting on everything like if he's the superior

He's not wrong

Literally in the homebrew scene on the switch one of the first things they pursued hard was themes and changing the home menu

 

[Blond]

He comes off like a gigantic asshole alright. Imagine getting that upset about a menu.

Plenty of other switch related things to get upset about.

It's a shit UI, no doubt though. This gens UI have all needed some serious overhaul because they just go from bad to worse.

PS4 > Switch > XB1 in terms of bad to worse UI.

 

[nuttyevans]

I don't mind the UI. Bland but at least it's quick.

Themes etc seem like a no brainer though, easy money.

 

[Mista]

Literally in the homebrew scene on the switch one of the first things they pursued hard was themes and changing the home menu

Yes I can see it's a problem for many but not for me. Still, there's a better way to say it

 

[ThatGamingDude]

Yes I can see it's a problem for many but not for me. Still, there's a better way to say it

Oh no doubt he could have not been a prick about it and put Ninty on blast

But the dude's got a very valid point lol
If you end up buying a lot of games, you can't have folders to organize them which becomes a big pain, which is likely what he's referring to

 

[MoreJRPG]

UI AND UX are trash. Locked to 720p, no themes, no folders. How do they keep getting away with it???

 

[joe_zazen]

UI AND UX are trash. Locked to 720p, no themes, no folders. How do they keep getting away with it???

you want dedicated handheld, where else are you going to go? Competition is the only thing that kicks corporations in the ass.

 

[Saruhashi]

To be fair the home menu is a bit rubbish.

I think the same could be said for both PS4 and Xbox also?

I never got the point of having themes for specific games on offer for PS4 when you can't see the damn theme properly anyway.
"Preorder now and get a cool theme that will be obscured by the giant icons running right across the middle of the screen.

 

[Breakage]

I see he is still doing the “angry guy yells” act.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Disagree. The simplicity is a strength. I can understand those accustomed to seeing all of their games displayed in a huge list might be disappointed, but personally I like the lack of clutter.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

He's correct

 

[Caffeine]

its simplicity is nice, but it hasnt really had any major improvements, and remained pretty basic.

 

[Deleted member 774430]

He's correct although there is a reason for that and Nintendo explained it.

They wanted to keep the OS as light as possible, and it's currently like one of the lightest OSes ever made, that was basically their response to the negative feedbacks to the Wii U OS which was incredibly slow and heavy.

Adding animations and other fancy stuff would have compromised that goal.

 

[Max_Po]

You want to see a Turd dump, hop into the Nintendo eStore or eShop. Its an unorganized mess.

 

[mcjmetroid]

It's a shit UI, no doubt though. This gens UI have all needed some serious overhaul because they just go from bad to worse.

PS4 > Switch > XB1 in terms of bad to worse UI.

I mean it's not brilliant but it's simple to use and that's all it needs to be.

I'll agree with the lack of themes, lack of multimedia support and the eshop layout being an issue but beyond that it's not a massive deal I don't think.

If he wants to whinge about something and be an edgelord then give out about joy con drift or the lack of a browser, or the piss poor shop layout or plenty of anything else.

I've never played the xb1 but I've heard stories of how bad it is.

 

[mckmas8808]

Imagine blocking everyone that's being nice to you? Imagine complaining about literally everything? What a prick

He sounds like a regular on GAF. Don't know if that's good or bad.

 

[GrayChild]

Kamiya is once again right.

Also, BLOCKED!

 

[Stefan.North]

Strange it took him this long to realize it.

 

[Deft Beck]

Most people who own game consoles rarely play more than 12 games, max. Enthusiasts need folders, but they tend to take a while to come to consoles because it's not a priority for the OS engineers due to the previous statement.

Then again, this thinking could be dated, since mobile app stores' surplus of games warrants folders on mobile devices.

 

[Sybb]

I think it's exaggerrated to write something like that, based on not having all games in a single menu. It's not a deal breaker, so why lash out about it like that? But Kamiya will be Kamiya.

 

[Rat Rage]

Kamiya is right, though!

 

[Dane]

They should do an Anger Management tv series with him.

 

[Enjay]

He must have just recently gotten around to turning his on, which is understandable as mine hasn't been used since December 2018. Also wtf is he talking about when he asks if they played nintendo fanboy's switch?

 

[Starlight Lotice]

Kamiya can fuck off. He's always complaining and shitting on everything like if he's the superior

Just tell him if he eats his mother's shit to make him feel better about himself. (Referencing his Eat Shit and Your Mum jokes)

I already know he wants to Mod it with all Icons with himself with Japanese Models/Porn Stars.

 

[Aion002]

Friendship with Nintendo ended? Now his best friend is?

 

[Enjay]

Friendship with Nintendo ended? Now his best friend is?

It won't be Microsoft. Their last outing resulted in them forcing Inaba to force Kamiya to write these tweets which ended up being lies tbh.

 

[Ten_Fold]

I mean could be worse lol, I got confused when I used the xbox one for the first time just looking for shit lol.

 

[Blond]

It won't be Microsoft. Their last outing resulted in them forcing Inaba to force Kamiya to write these tweets which ended up being lies tbh.

EEEEYIKES

I've never seen these but those tweets are clearly not him behind the keyboard. The use of English there is clearly someone trying to type on his behalf and pass it off as him. The comma, period usage not to mention that usage of too are WAY to proper for him.

 

[Jooxed]

I mean it’s bear bones but it’s also functional and super fast. I guess the only thing I would want is folders.

The e shop on the other hand.

 

[Panajev2001a]

He's correct although there is a reason for that and Nintendo explained it.

They wanted to keep the OS as light as possible, and it's currently like one of the lightest OSes ever made, that was basically their response to the negative feedbacks to the Wii U OS which was incredibly slow and heavy.

Adding animations and other fancy stuff would have compromised that goal.

You are basically calling them incompetent or technically inefficient which is not fair IMHO.

Switch, even in portable mode, is running on a LOT faster HW than PS Vita, for example, and with quite a lot more RAM too and yet say what you want, but PS Vita OS UI was lighting fast and had lots of player focused features and animations too.

720p OS UI when the device is in docked mode?!?

 

[Panajev2001a]

I mean it’s bear bones but it’s also functional and super fast. I guess the only thing I would want is folders.

The e shop on the other hand.

EShop partially suffers because it is yet another HTML5 e store and because of choices like not having a shopping cart have still to be addressed. Still, sure it is functional and fast, but given the HW it runs on (vs say PS Vita) it is a bit of a low bar IMHO. Also, 720p UI in docked mode?!

 

[MoreJRPG]

You are basically calling them incompetent or technically inefficient which is not fair IMHO.

Switch, even in portable mode, is running on a LOT faster HW than PS Vita, for example, and with quite a lot more RAM too and yet say what you want, but PS Vita OS UI was lighting fast and had lots of player focused features and animations too.

720p OS UI when the device is in docked mode?!?

Exactly. It’s literally tile icons, how slow can it be? It’s not like Sony or Microsoft which build in adds, music, animations in background, TV apps, game streaming apps. It’s a plain screen with no sound and image files output at 720p docked. It’s so backwards.

 

[Katsura]

Still no folders. It's a travesty of a proper home screen to be honest

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

I fired up my Wii U the other day and was surprised to find I liked the menu set up more. I also liked when you start a game, there's a loading wallpaper and a little song snippet from the game; it feels classy. The Switch feels barren and boring.

 

[Danjin44]

The menu on Switch is nothing special and has no extra features and basically bare bones but one thing I really like about it is that it fast, smooth and on point and all I want is get to my games as fast as possible I never mess around with any of the "extra features" on my other consoles.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I agree that SONY has the better main menu however you shouldn't be stuck at the menu of any system.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

The crazy thing is that it still hasn't gotten any better in almost 3 years.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Microsoft BROKE THIS POOR MAN.

 

[Hendrick's]

He isn't wrong. Everything about the Switch is disappointing.

 

[Mista]

Friendship with Nintendo ended? Now his best friend is?

His master

 

[SLB1904]

Strange it took him this long to realize it.

i mean he had to work on bayo 3 at some point

 

[infinitys_7th]

3DS had a great menu system. I don't understand why the Switch's sucks so bad, aside from some directive for it to be as "simple" as possible.

 

[JimmyJones]

The Switch is garbage, he is correct.

 

[V4skunk]

The crazy thing is that it still hasn't gotten any better in almost 3 years.

At least it isn't a cluttered incoherent mess like on Xbone.