App Profile: Nintendo Today!

Starlet2988

Rating: 4/5

I love this app but I have a few notes u could work on to make it even better. 1. There’s no sound for the apps videos if your phone is on silent mode. You could put a toggle in the settings for sound so people who want to listen to the wonderful music can and there phone is still in silent mode. 2. This one is not as major but I was fairly dissappointed when I didnt see some of your major games like Pokemon or Xenoblade as one of the choices to be in the background. Other than that like I said great app and it serves its purpose well.

funnywoomysquid

Rating: 3/5

I love Nintendo and their games, so Miyamoto showing up at the end of today’s Direct made me ecstatic… only for it to be a reveal for Nintendo’s third Switch-tied app. Downloaded it out of curiosity, and at the moment that’s all it is. A curio for Nintendo fans. At least in my opinion, real life events and holidays should have been mixed in with Nintendo game events, to make the calendar actually useful to check in your day to day, with the added benefit of cute Nintendo characters showing up on it. Instead, unless your whole life revolves around new SNES games coming to NSO, it’s not practical at all. Notifications are nice, but if you have them on for multiple things I could see it getting annoying with sound on. It would be like getting buzzed from 10 different apps except they’re all actually one app. The activities in your feed are fine but why they take up the vertical calendar widget space is beyond me, oh boy a new Mario render I’ve seen before, how newsworthy. So as of the day it was announced, this is almost entirely useless, and if the Switch Online app is anything to go by, I doubt Nintendo will be in a hurry to improve it. If they do though, this could be pretty sick, but at the moment it’s nowhere near essential.

The Awesome Chap, Nick!

Rating: 2/5

Nintendo Today is a great concept, but only remains that way as Nintendo fails to represent any meaningful content in their app as of the time I am writing this review. For example, information as simple as the pre-order date of Switch 2 and the price are completely omitted and in there place are some funny pictures of Nintendo characters in upcoming games. Furthermore, Nintendo hasn’t revealed much information about Mario Kart World justifying its extreme price jump to $80, leaving Nintendo fans in the dust about their games. That isn’t even going into the questionable UI where you have to continuously scroll down to get the information you want rather than organizing what you want to read by type. This is a shame because they started off so promising by revealing the Zelda movie date, but ever since there has been a noticeable absence of truly substantial information.