'RIP Orange eShop': Nintendo Fans Bid Farewell To Iconic Switch Color

We're conscionable implicit a period distant from the much-hyped accomplishment of Nintendo Switch 2, which means Nintendo has been engaged down the scenes, updating its OG Switch firmware and getting the integer eShop acceptable for June 5. Part of those changes, however, has evoked a amazingly beardown absorption successful fans — the eShop has switched from orangish to red.

Not lone has the orangish inheritance — which has been the shop's superior colour since the Nintendo 3DS days of June 2011 – been refreshed to a agleam red, but the store icon connected the Home screen's taskbar has besides been fixed a overgarment of paint. Previously, the reddish inheritance colour had chiefly lone been utilized to people cardinal Nintendo anniversaries.

RIP orangish eShop. Lasted from 2011 to 2025 crossed 3DS, Wii U and Switch 🫡 pic.twitter.com/Gv9bBUKJ2H

That's not all, either. Nintendo has besides straightened the 'e' connected eShop and removed the small "eyelashes" from it, too, and changed the font, arsenic demonstrated by the 't' successful Nintendo.

"Going to beryllium sick…" cried 1 alarmed Twitter respondent, portion others descended into a "It's bread" frenzy, riffing connected the viral Silent Hill 3 meme.

"Yeah I miss the orangish already, lol," said different commenter connected Reddit, to which different joked: "NOW it’s adjacent gen."

Interestingly, though, this is really not the archetypal clip the eShop has been red, arsenic immoderate players person besides been reminiscing about. It besides aligns the console store with the colour palette you spot erstwhile visiting the Nintendo eShop via your browser.

On the positive side, players are reporting the updated eShop seems to beryllium responding faster since the astir caller firmware update.

As IGN reported earlier today, Nintendo Switch Firmware Update Version 20.0.0 makes a fig of cardinal changes to the eight-year-old console successful mentation of the motorboat of its successor, the Switch 2, successful June, according to the spot notes released connected Nintendo's authoritative website. It includes the summation of a strategy transportation to Nintendo Switch 2, which you’ll present find successful System Settings, truthful you'll beryllium capable to transportation from your Switch to Switch 2 utilizing section communication.

This is each starring towards the hotly anticipated merchandise of the Nintendo Switch 2 connected June 5. Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders went unrecorded connected April 24, with the terms inactive fixed astatine $449.99 — and they went astir arsenic good arsenic you'd expect. Meanwhile, Nintendo has issued a informing to U.S. customers who applied for a Switch 2 pre-order from the My Nintendo Store, saying merchandise day transportation is not guaranteed owed to precise precocious demand.

Check retired IGN's Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order usher for more.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.