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Soundwave on 10 May 2024
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Doctor_MG said:
Pemalite said:

As above... It is certainly memory hungry for the "work" and features the OS has. Which isn't a lot... And it still ends up being slow on top of it.

Completely disagree here. Switch OS is snappy, and I actually can't understand how anyone would think otherwise. It's certainly faster than the Wii U, and even faster than the PS4 for certain tasks, such as going to the home screen mid game or switching profiles. 

The Nintendo eShop is the slow thing, not the OS in general.

Yep. As much I thought ideas like Miiverse were neat ... if you're going to put RAM into a video game console, the RAM should be for games first and foremost. 

The Switch OS does everything it needs to do and does it fast enough, honestly I wouldn't mind if Nintendo just reused the exact same OS but just made it faster due to being on UFS 3.1 (way faster than EMMC) and kept the foot print at only around 1GB of RAM usage total but they'll probably allow it to have 2GB this time around. 

I don't need or want to see commercials on my OS or what's new on Netflix or breaking news or any of that shit, just show me my games and let easily select what I want to play or get into settings or eShop. Sony/MS both failed to do that whole "center of your entertainment universe!" idea, face it the smartphone (Apple and Samsung/Google) won that by ten country miles.