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It looks like Switch 2's finally fixed its predecessor's painfully sluggish eShop


Switch 2 is finally getting into the public's hands, meaning answers for all sorts of previously unanswered questions a…

Switch 2 is finally getting into the public's hands, meaning answers for all sorts of previously unanswered questions are beginning to emerge as the system gets a thorough go-over. Switching between store sections could cause the eShop to hang, while scrolling though the 2,000+ titles perpetually on sale would inevitably prove so traumatic for the system it would squeal and force a full page reload. We already had some inkling this would be the case, of course; a recent interview with Nintendo's Switch 2 development team highlighted a variety of promised eShop upgrades, including assurance it now "runs smoothly".

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