Nintendo dropped a fairly big system update for the Nintendo Switch last night, with version 10.0 of the console’s software adding a few key features that have long been standard on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Those key features are the ability to move game data between the system memory and an SD card, letting you finally manage which game will live in the slightly faster main memory, and the ability to remap controller buttons, which is an important step for accessibility.
There’s also the ability to bookmark News, a handful of new Animal Crossing: New Horizons avatars, and the usual nondescript stability improvements.
All in all, it’s not checking off many people’s most desired features – Where are the themes? The ability to create folders? The offline save data management? – but game data management and button remapping are decent additions.
Here’s the full patch notes for version 10.0.0:
Added a bookmark feature to News.
This feature allows you to bookmark your favorite news items.
- A maximum of 300 news items can be bookmarked.
- An internet connection is required to view bookmarked News items.
- News items that are no longer available cannot be viewed, even if they were bookmarked.
Added an option to transfer software data between the system memory and an SD card.
- Users can now transfer downloadable software, update data, and DLC from the system memory to an SD card (and vice versa).
- Note that save data and some update data cannot be transferred to an SD card.
Added an option to remap the controller buttons.
- Analog stick and button configurations can now be changed for each paired controller.
- Custom configurations can be saved as favorites in System Settings > Controllers and Sensors.
- Custom configurations are stored on the Nintendo Switch system.
- Configurations can be customized for the following controllers: Joy-Con (L), Joy-Con (R), Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Button configurations can also be customized on the Nintendo Switch Lite system.
- This feature is not available for other controllers.
- On each system, up to five favorite custom configurations can be saved for Joy-Con (L), five for Joy-Con (R), five for Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Five configurations can also be saved as favorites for Nintendo Switch Lite.
Added a new section in User Settings for Play Activity Settings.
- The options for “Display play activity to:” and “Delete Play Activity” have been moved from Friends Settings to the new Play Activity Settings.
Added new selections to the lineup of user profile icons.
- Select from 6 new icons from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons game for your user.
General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.
Source: Nintendo
