Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube817kUpdate [Thu 5th Jun 2025, 9am]: Lucky Alex-from-Nintendo-Life got his hands on Switch 2 a handful of hours before the rest of us (hey, some of us are still waiting for the postman to arrive!) and invites you to take a tour of the new console's Home screen and menus in the video above. It's all comfortingly familiar, that's for sure, but the speed! Join the 20-minute tour as he explores the system menu's ins-and-outs, and let us know your thoughts in the usual place. Now, back to peering out the front window for any sign of Pat...Original Story: With discoverability on the bloated Switch eShop causing headaches for players and devs alike, you can sometimes forget how slow the shopping experience on Switch can be. Likewise, though Nintendo hasn't bogged down the main system menu with ornamental additions, navigating the system menus is hardly a snappy experience, either. Well, it seems like Switch 2 is going to be a big upgrade in that department, as evidenced in this first look at the new Switch 2 eShop (which is now live) and the system's menus, courtesy of VGC editor-in-chief and lucky blighter Andy Robinson, who took delivery of a Switch 2 earlier today. Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube817k On Bluesky, Robinson noted that after the system transfer, all your Switch 1 games appear there, ready and waiting to download. As you can see, booting Switch 2 is a lot like booting Xbox Series for the first time was - all of your Switch 1 games are already there, waiting for you to redownload (if you did the system transfer during setup)— Andy Robinson (@andyrobinson.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T13:33:48.745Z Perhaps we're just used to the now-soupy speed of an eight-year-old console, but seeing the speed of the screen transitions in the video at the top of the page brought a smile to our face. Now let's hope they can do something about the slop. We'll be bringing you our own in-depth S2 coverage just as soon as we're able. Not long to go now! Update: We got one! *slams alarm bell, Ghostbusters-style* Let us know below your impressions of the new eShop and Switch UI experience (which looks an awful lot like the old eShop and Switch UI experience, just a damned-sight quicker off the mark, no?). Which do you prefer? A step in the right direction [source youtube.com, via bsky.app] Share:36 7 Gavin first wrote for Nintendo Life in 2018 before joining the site full-time the following year, rising through the ranks to become Editor. He can currently be found squashed beneath a Switch backlog the size of Normandy. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Related Articles Nintendo Appears To Have Updated Mario Kart World's Switch 2 File Size Some other file sizes have also changed Site News: We've Got A Switch 2 Come watch us unbox Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Version 4.0.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes The free Switch 2 upgrade has arrived PSA: Switch 2 Updates For Multiple First-Party Switch Games Are Now Available Updates for Mario Wonder, 3D All-Stars and much more!