The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch eShop sucked for a very long time. For the console’s entire lifecycle, it was a slow and laborious means of purchasing digital games that I’d only touch if I had to. I don’t enjoy navigating it, since at any moment it feels like a digital peddler wil𓆉l appear to try and sell me something untoward. Nothing about it feels as polished or refined as it should.

So, when the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch 2 was released last month, and suddenly it was a breeze to jump into and browse, it felt like a revelation. I could buy digitalಞ games without the whole screen becoming a slideshow of dropped frames and time-out errors? What a concept! Nothing is perfect though, and the storefront still remains plagued by countless spam games that only serve to bury real triple-A and indie efforts that are actually worth our time.

Nintendo Is Finally Doing Something About The Switch eShop

It turns out that Nintendo has quietly made some major 🐓changes to its publishing guidelines for 🐟titles wishing to be sold on the eShop in an effort to reduce the a💮mount of ‘eSlop’ found on the storefront. Right now, it only takes a brief scroll through the latest titles to find myriad games generated by AI or crudely assembled puzzle titles with some twist on ‘hentai’ in the title. This is a platform meant for all ages, so it feels pretty bizarre to have games inspired by a genre of animated pornography slapped on the front page.

Theꦦ guidelines were first introduced on June 5, although it appears developers with existing games on the storefront will be able to skirt around them by changing game titles and altering product descriptions. I can picture this happening with a lot of ‘hentai’ games.

Developers speaking to have expanded on exactly what these guidelines entail, and the steps that studios are expected to follow when it comes to releasing titles on the platform. It’s apparent that Nintendo is taking steps to reduce the amount of potentially “sexual” content in its digital s🔯tore while also ensuring games don’t specifically depict insensitive content without justification.

This includes games that “overtly support or criticize real-life countries, organizations, or ideologies", or anything potentially "damaging to the Nintendo brand". This change is soꦦ needed, and will hopefully do something to repair the reputation of the storefront, which most people want to use, but are freque𒆙ntly pushed away from by mountains of needless garbage.

Next up is introducing some sort of policy ꦍon AI-generated content, or at the very least, it should follow in Steam’s footsteps and force developers to make clear whether it’s been used. Since on the eShop, there are hundreds of games made for cheap and sold for far cheaper in order to take advantage of unaware consumers.

But Nintendo Isn’t The Only Console Giant That Needs To Make A Change

I𒉰’ve written about the obscene amount of shovelware to be found on the PlayStation Store in recent years, and the situation has only gotten worse. Take a single scroll through the recent games section of the storefront, and you’ll be greeted with a deluge of AI-generated trash, an overzealous amount of sexually explicit asset flips, and maybe a real game if you’re lucky. It buried games you might ac𓄧tually want to consider purchasing with slop that Sony has given permission to slip through the cracks. We are quickly approaching an all🐻-digital future, and if we want it to be worthwhile, things need to be more curated than this.

Finding and enjoying games is a chore, while simply navigating it from a user perspective is now the equivalent of going to a flea market and seeing a bunch of blatantly bootleg stuff on display. Nobody is doing anything about it, but you know, deep down, this can’t be okay. In the past, I’ve also spoken with developers and know how hard it is to get noticed on a store like this, and where exactly you are placed is vital. Unless a player is already aware of you, they aren’t going to hit the search function. They need to see your name, your art, your price, and have a way to discover you naturally. Right now, that isn’t possible on Switch or PS5.

I’ve not used Xbox enough in recent memory to claim that it suffers from similar ills, but I’d not be surprised. We have reached ღa point where the digital ecosystems on consoles have become the primary means of purchasing and consuming video games, meaning now only the biggest fish float to the top while the rest are left to struggle for purpose. There are so many excellent games on Switch and PS5 that deserve to be discovered, but the state of their re♌spective storefronts is so dire that it proves impossible. New guidelines and strict submission processes could change that, but we still have a long way to go.