New Nintendo Switch System Update 17.0.0 Released; Improves System Stability, Updates System Components, More
Nintendo has deployed Nintendo Switch System Update 17.0.0, further improving the platform's system stability, but also packing some under-the-hood changes.
The new firmware version is available now and should download automatically if this feature has been enabled. Unfortunately, Nintendo's official release notes for this, what is supposed to be a major update going by the numbering, are once again almost absent. In the update notes, Nintendo only mentions system stability improvements - something that Nintendo has been mentioning in almost every firmware update ever since the platform's release back in 2017.
As always with system updates, however, there are some under-the-hood changes included with this update that haven't been detailed. As posted by Nintendo Switch dataminer 'OatMealDome' on Twitter, this new firmware version updates plenty of system components, which appears to be common for major system updates. "Pretty much every system component was updated", the tweet from 'OatMealDome' reads. "This is normal for major updates, as the entire OS is rebuilt with a newer SDK version. It’ll probably take a bit for those smarter than me to investigate the exact changes."
In addition to updating the Switch's system components, this new firmware version includes new error code messages, changes to HOME menu messages as well changes to some graphical user interface files. Also, time zone data appears to have been updated alongside changes to the 'bad words' lists.
Other than that, here’s what I can obviously see:
- New error code messages were added.
- Various HOME menu messages were changed. A bunch of its GUI files were also changed for whatever reason.
- Time zone data was updated.
— GhoulmealDome
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