After the last patch for Minecraft on Nintendo Switch I can barely even get Minecraft to load while selecting a world, visiting marketplace etc. Sometimes it works and I can play but most times it just infinite loads and then gives me a crash error when trying to close the game. I have tried re-installing the game but it feels like it got worse. The game was working perfectly fine before the last patch was released. Restarting the game over and over again just to load a world is extremely annoying.
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Anything and everything seems to affect this infinite loading. Joining a server, trying to change my skin, simply pushing the A button once. Even as Oliver has mentioned, leaving the game on a menu not having a world loaded causes infinite loading when then trying to navigate any menu afterwards. There has also been a few times I was actually in my world only for the game to just completely crash randomly. The switch version feels incredibly unplayable at the moment.
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I am also having this issue, as is my partner. We both play on the original Nintendo Switch consoles, with up-to-date system software, running 1.16.201.
If I leave a world and try to enter another one, I often see the screen that shows the scrolling background (of the nether) and some loading bars (with no text). It will stay on this indefinitely.
This also happens if I leave Minecraft open on one of the menus (without a world loaded up), and then attempt to load a world.
I've also bought a realm subscription this evening, and frustratingly, it won't let me load that whatsoever, again showing that screen with the loading bars. This isn't a connectivity issue, as literally all other devices are working, as are other apps on the Switch.
This bug is making the game almost unplayable.