{"id":84544,"date":"2026-06-16T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84544"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:37:11","slug":"new-switch-1-update-finally-at-long-last-resolves-one-of-its-most-annoying-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84544","title":{"rendered":"New Switch 1 Update Finally, At Long Last, Resolves One Of Its Most-Annoying Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the flaws of the original Nintendo Switch, one long-standing issue has been the performance of the eShop. And no, I&#8217;m not talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/folder-and-eshop-music-less-gaming-console-turns-five\/1100-6501132\/\">lack of music<\/a> in the vein of the Wii; browsing the store itself was always an exercise in frustration due to awful performance. And now, with the release of a new system update more than nine years after launch, that issue has suddenly been resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Switch 22.5.0 update patch notes don&#8217;t lay out that specific change, instead just vaguely saying it has been &#8220;redesigned&#8221; and that dark mode&#8211;if that&#8217;s what your system is set to&#8211;will be supported on the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s good news for those who don&#8217;t want their eyes to get blasted with bright light when shopping, but the key thing is that you can smoothly browse through the store&#8217;s offerings. For years, it&#8217;s been input lag, images that take a long time to load in, and extended waits if you dared to scroll any distance down a given eShop listing page.\u00a0Now, while it&#8217;s not the most buttery-smooth experience, the updated eShop is a dramatic, night-and-day difference from how slow it used to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troubling as the lag was, it&#8217;s a problem that&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the flaws of the original Nintendo Switch, one long-standing issue has been the performance of the eShop. And no, I&#8217;m not talking about the lack of music in the vein of the Wii; browsing the store itself was always an exercise in frustration due to awful performance. And now, with the release of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":84546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84547,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544\/revisions\/84547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}