Sorry fans of the Nintendo shop music circa the Wii era, but we won’t be getting a catchy jingle to shop along to on the Switch 2’s release this summer. And it doesn’t seem likely the music will be coming back in the future either.
According to Nintendo Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto, there is a very sound (no pun intended) reason for not having music on the storefront. In short, nowadays many of the titles listed on the eShop have videos accompanying them, which showcase gameplay to potential customers, and Nintendo “didn’t want to intrude on that”.
So quite simply, “we don’t have music there” Kawamoto told Polygon, although the Switch 2 producer did add that he still gets the Wii Shopping Channel music stuck in his head. He said he “probably booted the Wii Shopping Channel the most out of any application [on the Wii]”.