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Nintendo Adds Small Update To Switch eShop
The Switch eShop can be, much like the rest of the system's OS, best described as spartan. Yesterday, however, Nintendo quietly added a "Games on Sale" category shop to help mitigate the store's flea market-like organization problems.
Despite the Switch's reputation as a successful platform for indie titles, the eShop itself has gone through very few changes since the console's launch in March. Although developers could put their games on sale by their own will, there was no way to surface that beyond outreach via social media. Now, putting a game on sale changes its categorization so that it will show up in the Games on Sale section.
The category can be found on the left side of the Switch eShop's front page, alongside New Releases and Coming Soon.
This is the first update to the eShop since Nintendo added a Best Sellers list for each region since April 3. In January, an update was promised for Switch owners to use the capture button to record videos before the end of 2017.
Our Take
Nintendo usually aims major firmware updates for the fourth quarter of the year, ahead of the holiday rush, so I wonder if this small update portends something bigger in the near future. There is still a long list of things Nintendo should tackle, but this is a good first step.
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