On social networks, testimonials annoyed by the numerous problems with the Nintendo Switch eShop are multiplying. It must be said that the platform is accumulating problems. Poorly organized, it is difficult to navigate, in addition to having to deal with strawberry optimization.
“This is getting ridiculous. I searched for “Metal Slug” to find arcade games and found myself faced with a wall of identical games, and there are even more that haven’t been released yet! “. The experience user Metacrystal describes on the Metacrystal subreddit is sadly common. On the console’s eShop, although essential for purchasing games, navigation has always been a real pain.
In the comments, many people agree with the Internet user. The latter, who accompanied his publication with an image of the platform invaded by a single game, put his finger on a recurring problem of the store: spam. Indeed, even by typing the name of the game you are looking for, it is not that easy to come across its page, since the results will be flooded with more or less similar titles.
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Indeed, the eShop gives developers the possibility of having their games appear several times in the results by placing them in bundles. By abusing this technique, it is therefore entirely possible to invade the results page as long as the title sought belongs to the same category. To make matters worse, the platform is particularly slow and poorly optimized, which makes navigation even more unpleasant.
“The Switch isn’t super powerful, but it should be powerful enough to load a web page with a few small images without getting too slow,” laments another player in the comments. Unfortunately, the eShop has seen very few changes since its launch in 2017. It remains to be hoped that Nintendo takes advantage of the release of the Switch 2 to improve the formula or, at a minimum, take advantage of its more powerful hardware.
Source: Reddit