Games for Breakfast: Switch UI

<p><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Georgia&semi; color&colon; &num;333333&semi;">Welcome to Games for Breakfast&comma; a new feature series here on BagoGames&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Georgia&semi; color&colon; &num;333333&semi;">Games for Breakfast&comma; written by Features Editor Angelo De Bellis&comma; is a daily opinion piece of about 250-500 words—I gotta keep it brief—that engages topical game news&period; Every new post will go live at<span class&equals;"apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span>9am<span class&equals;"apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span>EST so that you can grab your cup of coffee and read a brief account of a particular gamer’s take on the latest goings-on in the industry&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>When the Wii was preparing to launch&comma; I yearned to learn everything about its user interface&&num;8211&semi;I wanted to know where my games would be selected for playing&comma; I wanted to know when and how the News and Weather channels would arrive&comma; and I wanted to know what the new Mii thing was all about&period; Fast forward a handful of years later and the excitement was the same for the Wii U&period; And then add a few more and you&&num;8217&semi;ve got the Switch launch&colon; a few leaked screens of the UI and a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;FNmepiHOwHk">video<&sol;a> that released last night by NeoGAF user hiphoptherobot that details the entirety of its interface&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The excitement leading up to the launch of the Switch was the same&comma; but now that I&&num;8217&semi;ve actually seen what the UI is all about&comma; and not from Nintendo might I add&comma; the excitement is gone because it&&num;8217&semi;s just so bare bones&period; Aside from your typical settings and profile management functions that are expected in a device of this kind&comma; the only kind of new things are the unique jingle that plays upon the startup of the console and the News area&comma; which seems to be nothing more than a space for propagandist updates and such&period; While there is something to be said about the clean look of the interface&&num;8211&semi;it reminds me of the days of the original DS when the idea of a robust UI wasn&&num;8217&semi;t really a thing with Nintendo hardware and gaming was all that mattered&&num;8211&semi;a capable piece of hardware like the Switch should have some other fun features&period; For example&comma; the Wii U had its very own social network called Miiverse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you think about the Switch&&num;8217&semi;s interface&quest; Do you think future software updates will take it to where it needs to be&quest; Or do you like the simplicity of its design&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;