Right here’s one thing annoying. You purchase a brand new sport on Swap, or possibly want an enormous replace to obtain. The method begins and then you definitely stroll away to do one thing else. Solely you come again later, after the Swap is in sleep mode, and it’s one way or the other nonetheless not completed. The excellent news is that the Nintendo machine getting finicky with downloads whereas resting was a glitch.
In line with a brand new system replace, this ongoing challenge ought to now be addressed. This week’s firmware replace 19.0.1 contains the next patch notes by way of dataminer OatMealDome:
- Mounted a difficulty the place GameCube controllers is probably not acknowledged.
- Mounted a difficulty the place communication processes like downloads might not operate accurately in sleep mode.
It’s a small repair to make certain, however one with large implications for the usability and lowkey high quality of lifetime of Swap gamers. The machine’s WiFi is already crap, so downloads pausing in sleep mode was particularly annoying. Think about The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge comes out at midnight. You provoke the set up and fall asleep and eight hours later it’s one way or the other nonetheless downloading?
The opposite bug repair within the replace possible impacted many fewer gamers, however will probably be a godsend all the identical for Smash Bros. followers. The console was having a troublesome time just lately recognizing GameCube controllers hooked up utilizing adapters, a standard sufficient factor for followers of the platform fighter raised on its Melee incarnation. It appears like these connection points are resolved now as properly.
Now all of the Swap wants is a sleep mode that makes use of means much less battery when there aren’t issues downloading. The one factor worse than ready for a sport to put in is coming again to your Swap and seeing the battery life within the single digits. Hopefully the Swap 2 is ready to faucet into no matter darkish magic was powering the PlayStation Vita’s power-saving mode.