Circumstances that do not crack, screens that do not scratch
![Nintendo Switch cracked fan vent](https://images.nintendolife.com/70b0b46382e2a/nintendo-switch-cracked-fan-vent.900x.jpg)
Whereas drifting Pleasure-Con took a while to materialise at a big scale, from the early days of Swap studies of scratched screens and warping instances, with the worst instances of the latter even leading to cracks. Whereas teething issues with new, unproven {hardware} are to be anticipated, maybe, you’d hope that Nintendo has discovered sufficient over the previous six years to launch new {hardware} that avoids these pitfalls.
‘Swap 2’ Wishlist
And now we transfer into the ‘not-a-dealbreaker-but’ part…
An OLED display from the beginning
![Nintendo Switch OLED Advance Wars](https://images.nintendolife.com/02329fb446e50/nintendo-switch-oled-advance-wars.900x.jpg)
You may by no means return. If, as rumoured, the display in Nintendo’s subsequent handheld is not an OLED, it will need to be one attractive piece of package to make us neglect the colourful colors and excessive distinction of the OLED mannequin’s attractive display.
Actually, we virtually put this within the ‘Important’ part, nevertheless it’s additionally true that there are nice non-OLED screens accessible, and in the end it isn’t going to be a dealbreaker. It is simply going to be laborious to swallow if the display on the ‘new’ Swap, no matter decision, would not look as vibrant and beautiful because the one many people have proper now.
Respectable in-built voice chat
![Nintendo Switch Voice Chat](https://images.nintendolife.com/9d657925a416d/nintendo-switch-voice-chat.900x.jpg)
We kinda received bored with asking for this, did not we? Sure, all of us simply hit Discord or one other app after we need to play on-line and interface with different human models, however would not or not it’s good if we may simply do it on the system itself with out getting our telephones concerned, hmm?
Non-fiddly cart slot cowl
In case you’re of a nervous disposition otherwise you chew your nails for another purpose, you will in all probability have had hassle getting the Swap’s cart slot cowl open. It is not a biggy, however it will be nice if this was tweaked to be a bit of clicky door.
![Nintendo Switch OLED Game Card Cover](https://images.nintendolife.com/73aa361418d29/nintendo-switch-oled-game-card-cover.900x.jpg)
Extra inner storage
The Swap OLED mannequin doubled the system’s inner storage to a whopping 64GB, however video games — even Swap video games — are fairly hefty today, and even in case you’re a physical-only gamer, the variety of required downloads and updates you will must retailer implies that 64GB is not ample anymore. In case you purchase your video games digitally, there are a number of Swap titles that merely will not match on the system until you’ve got received a micro SD card. Our complete file measurement for NBA 2K24, for instance, is sitting at 61.4GB on the time of writing. Nicely, that is beneath 64GB, so that you’re alright!’ we hear you say, however Swap’s working system and firmware take up a bit of the inner storage, so no, if would not match.
Realistically, virtually everybody does complement inner storage with a hefty reminiscence growth, and the costs are comparatively modest today, however the extra onboard reminiscence the higher in our e-book. We might wish to see ‘Swap 2’ coming with not less than 1TB.
![Nintendo Switch Micro SD slot](https://images.nintendolife.com/ca8a5d2023c61/nintendo-switch-micro-sd-slot.900x.jpg)
Analogue triggers
Not an enormous deal, however it will be good to have a bit of further analogue management in racing video games that assign the brakes and throttles to shoulder buttons. Having a binary on-off and never with the ability to gently feather the fuel leads to us spinning out, and whereas we will typically remap the accelerator to a persist with get the precision we wish, it will be good to have analogue parity with different consoles and get again the shoulder management we loved again within the GameCube days.
FLUDD in Tremendous Mario Sunshine will surely respect it.
![Nintendo Switch OLED Joy-Con Shoulder Buttons](https://images.nintendolife.com/068ed1fb156ab/nintendo-switch-oled-joy-con-shoulder-buttons.900x.jpg)
Themes
Would we take themes over a zippy non-nonsense menu system? Not if we had been compelled to decide on, no, however blimey Nintendo, how about some color choices? Absolutely throwing in a ‘Purple’ or ‘Orange’ choice alongside the regulation White and Black is not going to pressure the chipset to breaking level!
Sure, natty 3DS-style themes and folders could be the final word aim — and we would do unhealthy issues to get some catchy music within the dwelling menu or eShop — however only a splash of color could be nice.
![Nintendo Switch Themes](https://images.nintendolife.com/fc81760891cae/nintendo-switch-themes.900x.jpg)
StreetPass
Ah, how we miss ye, StreetPass. Our pretty video producer Zion has been on a mission this 12 months to maintain the 3DS StreetPass candle burning in 2023, and the function’s absence on Swap has definitely made it a much less ‘enjoyable’ transportable to have about your particular person. The social aspect it dropped at 3DS — to not point out the enjoyable little StreePass sport catalogue — was a delight, and one we would like to expertise once more on new Nintendo {hardware}.
![New Nintendo 3DS StreetPass Quest](https://images.nintendolife.com/2fc0cd0137cfd/new-nintendo-3ds-streetpass-quest.900x.jpg)
Slicker on-line, and adios to Buddy Codes
A few perennial favourites right here. Swap made some progress with pal strategies and social media connections through Fb and Twitter, however it will be good to have a slicker system for including buddies on a brand new system.
And, after all, there’s the previous on-line chestnut. For the Nintendo devoted amongst us, years of simply placing up with on-line foibles and unconventional approaches to seemingly solved issues has left us a bit of drained and hopeless. Swap is not the worst, it may simply be easier than it’s. May this be the time Nintendo comes out with a web based system that simply connects merely and works constantly?
![Switch OLED](https://images.nintendolife.com/1d91daaede58c/switch-oled.900x.jpg)
There are many different issues we would wish to see come to a possible new Swap that are not present issues to repair quite than pitfalls to keep away from. In addition to hopefully migrating the Nintendo Swap On-line subscription choices to the brand new console, Swap has notably gained numerous accessibility and quality-of-life capabilities all through its lifecycle through firmware updates. Ranging from scratch could be a mistake, particularly in the case of bare-minimum choices similar to button remapping and the power to zoom textual content.
There’s nonetheless a lot room for Nintendo to advance in these areas, and there is completely no must be going ‘backwards’ by hitting reset on the gradual UI and have enhancements we have seen roll out since 2017. The Swap we have now in 2023 is absolutely the baseline from which to construct. We do not need to be writing about why ‘Swap 2’ would not assist Bluetooth headphones or something like that.
These are our hopes for the subsequent console, however what about you? Tell us the problems you assume most want addressing with ‘Swap 2’ within the ballot and the feedback under.