If you've ever owned a Nintendo Switch, you'll no doubt know what the system's menu looks like. However, a prototype Switch NAND that's been discovered shows that Nintendo had a much grander home menu for the Switch, in the early days of the system's development. The UI images are taken from a mockup that was found on the NAND of a prototype Nintendo Switch unit. The user who shared the images notes that they must be moderately early on in the Switch's planning cycle, as the final UI style was locked in around late 2016. The early menu images are dated 2015, though it's uncertain if the album date is correct.

In the images, you can see a large banner would have been displayed for each game, with the game icons shown at the bottom, as well as the battery for individual JoyCons, the Switch itself, and the internet connection all being shown in the bottom right corner of the screen, instead of the top. The mockups also show 3DS and Wii U titles being used as placeholder images.

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[M7L7NK7]

Who cares about the UI, do you really all sit on the main screen for longer than it takes to start a game?

 

[wolf-snake]

I never understood why people hated the Switch UI, it does what its supposed to do. Click game to start, nothing more nothing else. Does everyone in the internet has ADHD or something that yall need to constantly be estimulated with pretty lights? even my modded Play Station 3 has the stock UI because you don't really need more.

 

[mondo530]

Its fine i guess

 

[frozencat]

I never understood why people hated the Switch UI, it does what its supposed to do. Click game to start, nothing more nothing else. Does everyone in the internet has ADHD or something that yall need to constantly be estimulated with pretty lights? even my modded Play Station 3 has the stock UI because you don't really need more.

it just can be so much more

 

[wolf-snake]

it just can be so much more

But does it needs to be more than what it is when it already does its job well?