At Last! The Switch Has Folders Now!

[A Black Falcon]

Nintendo is calling them "groups" for some reason, but same difference.  This is pretty seriously exciting, the Switch has very badly needed folders since its release and it's absolutely insane that it took this long.  I know this is something I have complained about a lot since the Switch released, so it's pretty fantastic that Nintendo finally, at long last, listened.  The groups can be large, too -- you can have up to 100 groups with up to 200 titles in each one.  Titles can be in multiple groups. Pretty nice.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com...a_id/58092

[Dark Jaguar]

Not so fast...

Groups are far more awkward to manage than they've been on the Wii U or 3DS.  Instead of just dragging and dropping titles, you have to go through a rather awkward series of nested menus to even see the button for making it.  From there, you have to navigate through your entire list to manually add them one at a time, and as a result it's easy to overlook titles you didn't manage to stick into a folder yet.  Putting titles in multiple folders actually presents more problems than solutions due to this.

There's one other critical problem.  You still can't actually stick these folders on your main interface or rearrange icons there.  You still need to navigate into your "all titles" section and then hit another button to pull up a list of your folders.

In other words, the interface is still inferior to what they had on the Wii U or 3DS, and the one additional feature I would actually like (nested folders) is the one addition they didn't bother with.

[A Black Falcon]

There's one other critical problem. You still can't actually stick these folders on your main interface or rearrange icons there. You still need to navigate into your "all titles" section and then hit another button to pull up a list of your folders.

Yeah, this is definitely pretty annoying.  While having folders is nice, you really need to be able to access some of them from the main menu!  The whole point is to improve game access and sorting, yes?  So why do they require you go into the full list submenu to get to them?  It's definitely a poor design.

  From there, you have to navigate through your entire list to manually add them one at a time, and as a result it's easy to overlook titles you didn't manage to stick into a folder yet.  Putting titles in multiple folders actually presents more problems than solutions due to this.

That is quite similar to how it works on Xbox.  It works, but yeah it does get easy to forget whether you've forgotten to put a game in the folder it goes in or not...

[Dark Jaguar]

There's one other critical problem. You still can't actually stick these folders on your main interface or rearrange icons there. You still need to navigate into your "all titles" section and then hit another button to pull up a list of your folders.

Yeah, this is definitely pretty annoying.  While having folders is nice, you really need to be able to access some of them from the main menu!  The whole point is to improve game access and sorting, yes?  So why do they require you go into the full list submenu to get to them?  It's definitely a poor design.

  From there, you have to navigate through your entire list to manually add them one at a time, and as a result it's easy to overlook titles you didn't manage to stick into a folder yet.  Putting titles in multiple folders actually presents more problems than solutions due to this.

That is quite similar to how it works on Xbox.  It works, but yeah it does get easy to forget whether you've forgotten to put a game in the folder it goes in or not...

On XBox One you can stick them in groups (come to think of it, MS calls them groups instead of folders too) right from the main game list without having to select the group itself first.  It makes it far more workable to go through your whole list one item at a time and pick a list on a per item base, rather than targeting each group one at a time and going through your game list after.