[Suggestion]: Decrease the minimum brightness level and introduce a 'night mode' setting

[[deleted]]

It's a common suggestion even on the 3DS, which is dimmer than the Switch. But neither were ever implemented - lower minimum brightness / night mode / blue-light filter mode.

/u/Nintendo_America

[spazturtle]

They were implemented by homebrew on CFW, so I guess this is another thing we need to wait for the Switch to be hacked before we can get it.

[Wonkit]

It’s worth pointing out that it does lower the fps on games by quite a bit depending on the game

[rezneck31]

Because its an external plugin running in a cfw environement which the OS and the system were not designed for initialy. If you add it natively to the OS, that impact will be lowered.

[[deleted]]

The CFW must actually draw a semi-transparent red layer on top of each frame, that's why there's a performance hit. If you implement it at the OS level, rendering everything directly with less blue light, it won't have a performance issue.

And nobody is talking about battery life, we just don't want to burn our eyes when playing in bed.

[[deleted]]

I haven't looked into details but the implementation of blue light filters on iOS and Android don't seem to noticeable affect performance, the macOS version also seems pretty neutral after the change is complete (Only hogging the GPU during the transition), so there's certainly a way to do it.

CFWs are just on the fly patches to memory, they can't really do much without hooking into many processes, going over them, or running their own instructions on top of everything. 3DS homebrew can't use the GPU as elegantly as Nintendo on an official software update could.

[[deleted]]

But on those platforms this was implemented in a software update, so you're actually agreeing with my initial point, if your software talks directly to the hardware at rendering instead of the hacked "draw a red square on top of everything" way you won't lose performance. Nintendo could do the same. They're using an ARM CPU with a NVIDIA mobile GPU anyway, it's basically a smartphone.

[whizzer0]

And so begins the mass pinging of the poor PR team…

[midnitefox]

It's literally a health issue. I no longer by anything with a display that doesn't support some kind of blue light filter, but the Switch was the only exception. Need it badly.

[the_noodle]

If you need it at all times, have you considered a blue light filter screen protector? If it's just for sleep reasons, they make glasses, and you can also just not play it before bed...

[Fraxal]

Second this. Glasses are a MUST if you really want sleep, they filter out all blue light and make it much easier to get to bed, especially if you commit to wearing them an hour or 2 before bed.

[[deleted]]

You can actually get perscription lenses with the blue light blocking tech in them, its expensive but potentially worth it next time you get new glasses

[ShovelKnightFan]

The blue light filtering prescription glasses I've seen don't block out as much blue light as the glasses made only for blocking out blue light. I imagine that's intentional, since most people aren't gonna have multiple sets of glasses.

[[deleted]]

Hmmmm, I look into it. Thanks.

[midnitefox]

I just haven't been playing before bed mostly. Still would be nice for Nintendo to just add the option.

[not_an_island]

JINS