If your Nintendo Switch is only displaying a mysterious orange screen, you might be experiencing the Orange Screen of Death.

If your Switch refuses to boot back up, or you encounter the orange screen repeatedly, then the matter may be out of your hands. In this case, your only option is to send it to Nintendo for repairs.

Not only has the orange background — which has been the shop's primary color since the Nintendo 3DS days of June 2011 – been refreshed to a bright red, but the shop icon on the Home screen's ...

Previously, the red background color had primarily only been used to mark key Nintendo anniversaries. RIP orange eShop. Lasted from 2011 to 2025 across 3DS, ...