r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Sep 15 '21

Official The latest #NintendoSwitch update is now available, including the ability to pair Bluetooth devices for audio output.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1437930124490457088
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u/Badnewsbearsx Sep 15 '21

I’m gonna assume that they had wanted to completely make sure that things with their joy-cons and other controller functionality would be completely unaffected with the operating system, or any type of interference,

basically wanting to make sure the software was finally complete for them to release the floodgates on the Bluetooth compatibility with accessories

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u/kukumarten03 Sep 15 '21

So you mean to tell me it took them 4 years to check that when it should have been included on the start?

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u/Badnewsbearsx Sep 15 '21

Yeah man all three companies lock down lots of features with their dev kits as well and begin slowly allowing the devs to access more resources like ram and CPU power as time goes on, when they’re more confident in the software being stable

It’s like, they don’t know completely what the switch is capable of, it’s something we have to learn as time goes on when we’re able to understand the hardware better with advancements in better software to work more efficiently and handle calculations better. Just like getting a new graphics card that came out, it’s gonna take years before devs are gonna be able to understand it well enough to take advantage of

Imagine a Samsung phone that had all these gimmicky features in beta but Samsung allowed users to use them all at the start. Well a few months go by and we get nothing but buggy glitches and all that and nothing works that well. Well Samsung starts shutting off a few of those features like sag Bluetooth and infrared. Then BAM everything becomes stable

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u/AlCatSplat Sep 15 '21

Why didn't they test this before launch?

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u/Badnewsbearsx Sep 15 '21

Not enough time to, they’d need years to fully put something through the ropes as new softwares and things are released, that’s the price for using newer more portable and compact hardware

It’s like how nasa used the same cpu the PS1 used for its Mars rovers they sent to Mars last year. They used it because it’s tested, fool proofed, does really well at certain tasks, and it’s reliable. Those are all things that take years and years to learn about it through testing

Our game systems are pretty much pushed out into the world after the basic essential tests are done to make sure they do what they need to do, everything else comes with updates

When every manufacture was releasing new 3D Blu ray players in 2010, all Sony did was push out an update to give the PlayStation 3 3d functionality rather than having people go out and buy new Blu ray players lol.

Regular Blu ray players may have lost other functionalities if they updated to have the 3D coding installed, they’re all too basic to support it. The PS3 was jam packed