We learned today that the well-received Stardew Valley will be coming to Nintendo Switch on Thursday, October 5th. What we now know, thanks to VanillaLite on NeoGaf, is that the game will take up just 800mb of memory on your console. There’s been some talk online recently about software icons on the Nintendo Switch. This prompted the CEO and Designer over at Chucklefish to tweet the Stardew Valley icon. Thankfully the games’ Switch menu icon has gone down well fans with its design and you can check it out for yourself below.
So funny how people care so much about the icons but at the same time I get it.
Well, I don’t really care much since I’m all into the boxart of physical games, but plenty of those Aca Neo Geo-titles have some really MS Paint 95 looks xD It gives me the shivers
Can you believe that some people refuse to buy some games because they didn’t like the icon’s look? Idiots.
Still those developers are unprofessional.
For an icon. Yeah, totally unprofessional. Smh
Any unpolished stuff is unprofessional.
Over an icon? It doesn’t matter.
Anything matter, an icon matter less than a CTD bug? Sure, still matter. And since it’s a visible unpolished element it gets criticized.
A useless icon should never matter. You play the game, not look at an icon.
I can believe it. Sometimes your on the fence about buying a game, and one little thing can push you over the edge. Some icons don’t even say the name of the game, just a low res screenshot. Pretty sad and lazy on devs part.
All the work on a game and people call them absolutely lazy over a useless icon? Ok.
The icon is important whether you believe it is or not. Just like the box art, posters or any other advertisement for the game. It’s what people see first usually, and it could potentially make or break a sale. And not all devs put a lot of work into their games. There are far more shitty games out there than good games.
No, it’s not. It’s really not. If an icon made you break a deal, then you need to stop judging books by their cover.
But it is important, lol. Not necessarily to me, but it doesn’t matter what I personally believe. I’m talking about the bigger picture. I’m talking about all the 7 and 8 year olds thumbing through app stores. And I’m sure there are statistics backing this up.
I can guarantee that icons do not matter. Kids need to learn not to judge a book by its cover. Kids shouldn’t be in the app store anyway.
awesome I will be getting this game for sure, I just need to finish golf story first!
Good thing gamers have their priorities in order, it would have ruined it for me if I had to play the game for hours knowing an ugly icon was waiting for me back at the menu.
I think your being sarcastic, but bad icons actually do bug me. Like those NEO GEO icons … horrific
I don’t disagree that developers should try their best in every aspect of the game they’re making, and good on the Snake Pass guys for listening to their audience, but I feel like it’s being blown just a bit out of proportion if developers are apparently feeling pressured to the point where they’re starting to preview their home screen icons now…
Man, I used to be really into these types of games, but now I just get bored of them quickly. Which is a shame because this game actually looks kind of good.
Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh thanks a lot picture, now I really want to play Wargroove.
Oh, and that’s not a bad Icon for Stardew Valley, I’ll have to have that piece of art on my Switch.