5 Ways the eShop Needs to Improve Before the Switch 2 Arrives

With 2025 in full swing, all eyes are on Nintendo to see if the rumors are true that the Switch 2 will be announced later this month. Rumors are swirling that it will include new Joy-Cons that can act as mouse pointers, a new ‘community’ feature button, and a more powerful system overall.

However, one big aspect that users want to see is improvements to the console’s storefront, the Nintendo eShop. Launched alongside the Nintendo Switch in 2017, the shop lets users buy and download games, DLC, and demos and save some of these to a wishlist that they can easily find to buy later.

Yet in the seven years the shop has been active, few improvements or new features have been added to it. Nowadays, it’s simply a chore to browse, with a very slow interface and lacking basic features that the Xbox and PlayStation stores have offered since their debuts.

With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the five top things we want to see in a new and improved eShop by the time the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement arrives.

Table of Contents Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. 5 Ways to Improve the Nintendo eShop for Switch 2
3. The Bottom Line
4. FAQs
5. References

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Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. 5 Ways to Improve the Nintendo eShop for Switch 2
3. The Bottom Line
Show Full Guide
4. FAQs
5. References

5 Ways to Improve the Nintendo eShop for Switch 2

Shopping Cart

It’s simply baffling that, in 2025, you cannot group up a bunch of games on the eShop, have them in a shopping cart, and then buy them all at once. Since the Switch’s debut in 2017 alongside the eShop, you have to look for each Nintendo Switch game and then buy them individually.

That’s simply bizarre, especially when you factor in the amount of discounts and new games the Switch sees almost every week. It’s simple, Nintendo: bring a shopping cart to the new eShop soon to make it easier for all of us.

Faster

Most of the 12,000 games available on the Nintendo Switch can also be bought and downloaded on the eShop — which has meant that the storefront has been slower to use in recent years.

Yet the most pertinent point of this is when you’re scrolling through a list of games, and eventually, the eShop struggles to even load the images of the games listed. Even worse, the Nintendo Switch store becomes far less responsive, with a lot of lag, and button presses are barely registered. So for a new and improved version, let’s see some massive optimizations where browsing the eShop after an amount of time won’t result in everything slowing to a crawl.

Less Mobile

Although the Switch can be taken out of its dock and be used as a handheld, that shouldn’t mean the eShop would always reflect that. As you browse the store and search for games, the interface looks like an expanded version of the 3DS eShop from 2013.

The layout of the storefront doesn’t take advantage of the many televisions that are connected to it when docked, nor does it take advantage of the Joy-Cons. If there were a cursor to let users directly choose certain games without having to scroll to it, that would be a far easier method instead, or allow for more space so that more images, information, and perhaps multiple windows can be shown at once.

Personalized Recommendations

A player’s taste in games on the Switch can be markedly different from their friends and family who also own the console. Yet when it comes to the eShop, recommendations for new games to play are non-existent. To help with this, let’s see user reviews and star ratings for games.

These can better highlight games for players who may become more interested in buying them. This way, a new section in the eShop could appear where players are shown new Nintendo Switch games that may fit their tastes based on the reviews and ratings given, as well as what they’ve bought in the past.

Better Moderation

Arguably, one of the eShop’s biggest issues is a lack of moderation, with many games seemingly approved that feature nothing but AI-generated art and others that are fakes of other games. For example, Wren Brier, creator of the puzzle game Unpacking, posted on Blue Sky in December how a ‘Deluxe’ version has been available on the eShop for weeks but has nothing to do with Brier and her team.

It’s a fake, which, when bought, is a poor imitation of Unpacking. It’s examples like this that are a bad look for Nintendo, and in 2025, this simply shouldn’t be happening. Instead, let’s see a team employed to fully take charge of what’s on the eShop, and have plans in place for fake games to be immediately removed.

The Bottom Line

Although the hype has never been higher for the Switch’s successor, there’s a similar amount for Nintendo’s eShop improvements. For too long now, players have had to endure a slow interface, a lack of a shopping cart, and limited ways to find the games they want.

The eShop is the primary way for most users to buy new games, and if the Switch 2 is going to have more remasters that weren’t possible on the first model, there’s no better time to see some improvements.

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