Thank you all for watching! If you would like to do this project yourself, I've provided some useful links in the description! If there's any more you think should be added, just let me know!

Hey! I'm the creator of the Switch Spines project and the templates etc. Had no idea this video existed and got so popular! So glad to see people like them :D

These look so much better then the boring red spines, i might do this as well

I didn’t know I hated the switch spines until I saw how cool they could look. Those all turned out really well.

Heyyyyy, the Zelda spine at 2:59 was mine, thanks for showing it in the video haha

One of the girlies who contributed to those! the animal crossing one is my design (rip it getting a bit cut off lmao). I have a ton of designs I havent even uploaded there but its fun to make and amazing to see in a collection

fyi, the switch online hub and eshop are actually websites, which is why they're so laggy

Splatoon 3's box art can be inverted so the game has a unique spine. So it made me think that maybe the next nintendo console could go down a route like that, so people could choose either consistency or artsy.

Interestingly, I'm polar opposite to this! I really like the red spine on Switch games with the white text on them! I live in the UK, and my main system is the PS2. EVERY game spine follows the same black and white format (PS2 brand at top, title beneath), and it makes it look a lot more consistent. I'm super glad you found a system that works for you! It adds a LOAD of personality and uniqueness to your collection with your Switch games looking different :D

If I ever need a chiropractor, I'll come to you - you clearly know how to adjust a spine!

I like the red wall! makes me go "fwoooh, my collection is getting big"

Hell yea! That looks better. The original is clean BUT I’m a OG NES collector and I’m all about wild art on the shelves. Crazy colors and life!

Lovely video Karsten. I'm one of the contributors to the sub reddit and I had the same feeling when I decided to give my spines that added flare instead that brick red look. Most of the time, I tend to go for the weirder or off the wall games when it comes to what spines I do. Either it's always fun seeing someone's collection get that extra level of care and hats off to the other talented spine makers. Hope you get a chance to add more to your collection. 👍

Watching you cut the spines with scissors made me scream lol. Just get a $10 paper cutter from the same office store where you printed them!

So basically, the PlayStation style of spines

This really made me appreciate the minimalist red spines. It really looks messy having all the colorful spines together.

Your idea is Amazing I hope the spines from their physical covers had this style for Nintendo Switch 2

Great video! I wonder if it would yield better results to print out the entire boxarts? Like photoshopping the spine onto a Nintendo Switch cover sheet (that way you don't have to worry about things slipping out of place or seeing slivers of color between the spine.

These new spines are eye-catching! Very well done! I always thought the pure red of the original spines was just ugly and bland, but this looks worlds better! They look awesome on display! I might try this out for myself!

It's very rare but sometimes Reddit is actually good.

nintendo: im mad that i didnt do that, so ill sue him! hahahahaha!

These spines look absolutely delightful, I might have to do this once I get a shelf

Love these new spines. Finally looking as they should. But what happens if you open the case? I think the new spine flip around. Most guys just use the cases for display and keep the actual games in a dedicated organizer. This would fix the new problem.

This is brilliant. I love that there's a community around switch spines.

This was something I didn't know I needed in my life and now I think I have to do this. Thanks for bringing the reddit community to my attention and the construction tips.

Wow these look great! So awesome that a community can come together and do cool stuff like this. May do this for my switch games soon!

it would be neat if the Switch 2 and later games boxarts have this spines designs

Thumbs up for that "opening credits crawl" alone 👍🏻 Extremely clever!

If you put the 1 2 Switch spines in the games you already have, instead of buying an absurd amount just for the gag, I salute you.

thats so sick!! I've never thought of this idea, im definitely trying this one out

The letters on the Metroid Dread spine is hard since they blend in with the red background.

I don't really play my Switch anymore, nor do I have many physical games for the system, but even so, after seeing this video and seeing how there's a community people who make Spines for the games, makes me inspired to make some of my own for everyone to use. I've had experience designing box arts, but those take a lot of time, so It'll be nice to create something smaller now and then.

Yeah, I only 2 problems that I actually have with the switch outside of games… My first problem is actually the game spines coincidentally And my second problem *is* actually the switch themes, one of my favourite ideas was made by GetMadz which has it so whatever cartridge you have in the switch changes the background to a theme based on the game

Gotta say, despite the impressive work, I prefer how it currently is. It's very pleasing on a shelf to see

I grabbed a few from my physical collection and I'm gonna be printing them, this is such a good idea and I could never quite figure out why I didn't like my Switch game spines. Thanks for the idea!

This video made me happy to be a PC player. Thank you Valve for making customizing your library easy.

The way you stacked printed cases to do the opening credits...immediate subscribe

The fact that a bunch of nerds on Reddit made better spine covers than actual Nintendo is just the funniest thing ever.

The thing with the spines looking the same is a half truth. The EU normally centers the text and uses a different font. Then anything not written in English stands out if the spine is written in Japanese Chinese or Korean. Around 10% of our Switch games are imports so the spines can be way different. The main weird thing is the US and EU text placement and font. Once you notice that it sands out more. If you grouped games by spines then your US English and EU English would need to be grouped apart for this reason. I love our games and many of those imports never came to America. I like physical games so collecting games from around the world makes the spins stand out more when they don't 100% match.

your printer will actually print popping colors if you set it to highest quality and use good shiny paper

Reddit is the incredible crossroads of absolutely nasty stuff, insufferably online people, and the most supportive niche communities you could possibly find - what a world

With how well edited and put together this is I really expected like a million views at least, so I was shocked when there was only 1k, your channel sort of reminds me of Scott the woz or chadtronic I love the videos please keep it up! And these spines look so much better and so much more fun with the creativity and joy of classic Nintendo really enjoyed the final product!

You haven't fixed it, you've destroyed it.

wasn’t convinced until i saw how the whole collection looks together, it looks great! great video!

These are so cool, thanks to this video I might actually try using custom spines for my covers too

Great job! I'm glad to see people improving their collections by tailoring them more to personal taste. Having the games on the same shelf as PlayStation and Xbox, the new spines look really nice. I have the European style of the boxes (centered titles instead of left-aligned, some in all caps, half in German, Age of Calamity with additional French and Italian AND a few coloured custom fonts - WHY?!?) next to the white spines for 3DS, which imo looks awesome. I might give custom spines a go at some point, but I'd go with white font on red background and add little icons to differentiate them more easily. KH Melody of Memory already has a tiny Kingdom Key, which I love...

Looks SO MUCH better!

This is such a great video! I didnt even notice this was made by a small youtuber at first

from "Lame as hell, to Flame as Hell" The Switch Spine story" | Love the way they all look on the shelf oml!

Two minutes in and I'm already started 🤣

Lmaooo that was a very hilarious way to start the video. This was a fun video to see how a switch game would look with an actual spine instead of the standard red one

For anyone wanting to do this yourself, make sure you use photo gloss paper, and if you are printing on your own printer, use the “best quality” settings. Also, make sure that the pages are printed in 100% size, with no margin. Love the Mega website!

i’m always impressed by how much care you put into each video!

I never knew and I wanted to this. It's always neat what the community can make

Remember that one Super Bomberman game for the switch? Had the same red spine and everything, only difference was Konami jazzed up the font with bold letters, from the cover of the box.

I still remember the first time I got my Nintendo switch at Saint Lucy’s day with Mario odyssey and I was 7, I loved it so much and after 7 years, this beast is still alive. I’m so happy :)

Nicus discovered benefits of mass production

What you call fixed, I call ruined. I like how the switch spines all look the same, makes it look good on display. The ones you made make it look messy imo

I love how they all look but at the same time I do love the minimalist red style of the switch boxes, damn idk what to do

That's honestly a really fun idea, and they came out super well. Might try this with some of my Switch spines.

I like the visual unity of all Switch spine covers, same thing in european PS and PS2 covers, it's clean.

Up until now I liked the red spines. After watching this video I hate them and want yours 😂

With how well paced and engaging this video was I genuinely thought this was made by a big channel. So imagine my surprise when I realized this video was made by some new guy with less than a thousand subscribers.

God damn it dude I never really paid attention to it before and now you make me want to do this

I feel like every week I learn about a new, incredibly niche community on Reddit

There are Etsy shops that do this for cheap. I’ve been happy with the results so far

as someone who grew up in a pal region, i am so use to the spines have plain text and no personality that i never realised nintendo had stopped doing that in america. very strange but great video :)

This makes me so glad. I got absolutely flayed alive on Reddit during the 2-3 first years of Switch when I on some occasions claimed that the spines were super boring and ugly. I was in awe by that so many (99% of the commenters) loved those super boring spines and also loves the European PS2 spines which were also in all uniform. I still don't understand this.... I really really really hopes that with the next Nintendo console improves with this matter.

Tip from a Staples Employee: Ask for the Flyer / Color Expressions Glossy Paper. It is the exact paper used for game cases. If your unsure you can ask if you feel the paper first. Then make sure you state you want actual size and also that your file doesn't have bleed, the printers by default don't allow bleeding and there is like a 1.5cm border on the paper that can't be printed on. I don't know the exact bleed unfortunately but you can test it on normal paper if you worry it won't work.

It's an amazing and creative content, keep it up bro

Great video, loved the effort to print more spines dor the intro, nice sense of humor, the cut away gags were tasteful and also amazing editing for such a small channel, you're going places, im subscribing!

It looks really nice, but I think some of them are a bit too busy with their background, making the title hard to read. I've been making custom covers for a while, so if I wanted to do it, I could probably make something that would fit my needs. A community just for Switch spines is awesome

yo! just found your channel! Love it! new sub! thanks!

Glad that I am not alone in this. The first DS cases are the best for me

"I don't want to print unusable spines, so I'll just print a bunch of 1 2 Switch" Yeah, same result... Good video tho lol

if you are having trouble with lining them up, have a little overhang on the top of the spine to fold under the art cover, it makes it way easier

I like the idea of this, and love the dedication of the artists and people who make them. But, I honestly like the uniformity of the red cases.

Nice idea. I was actually considering just putting my Switch game cases in the attic once I get my own place and keep the games in those small cases that hold a few dozen games at once. But I might actually go for this at some point. :)

This is amazing work.

Here's a tip. Have a little extra on top of the spines and fold it. Make it act like a hook for the cover

Yeah, I wish the spines had more character to them. I look at my brother's collection and it's just a wall of red. Plus, different spines makes it easier to find a game you wanna play, if you have a bigger physical collection.

Watching this video I’m blown away by how far Nintendo will go to cut costs I thought the quality of Pokemon games on switch and the lack of performance upgrades in the OLED were the ones that keep bugging me but now this is stuck in my head 😂 Really hope they redeem themselves with the switch 2 and Legends Z-A

at first I was thinking I much preferred the red uniform spines but damn this video swayed me

great video bro, had me engaged (it's not an easy task)

This man got the avgn video game collection💀

I'm considering this for the sole reason of covering up the damn centered labels of the few PEGI spines in my collection.

the fix i do for free is turning around the paper, they USUALLY have a nice design. Sometimes its plain white or smth boring tho

I’m totally doing this when I get home from work

I love the fact that we have options. I will say the plain red ones are rather boring but works well if you don't want flashy designs. The colorful designs have so much more personality. I've always quite liked how the Xbox and the PlayStation does the designs better than the Nintendo ones.

"I'm a sucker for consistently." He says while changing the consistent red spines to less consistent art

Those spines are cool but they give me a headache seeing them next to eachother

I actually strongly prefer the uniform, red spines. My OCD appreciates it, I think I might be in the minority with that.

I kinda have a feeling that these weren't really meant to be printed out, as there's no bleeding or safety margin, which means there's no room for error. On larger prints this is less of an issue, but on tiny stuffs like these it's really tedious to avoid mistakes. If I were to design these I would probably make the spine 1mm wider on each side to make them easier to cover the whole red part, leaving 2mm of margin on each side to avoid the text gets cutting off, and have an additional 2 or 3mm of bleeding so that any error wouldn't expose the white paper or another spine. (Also having bleeding allows the spine to be cut using a die cutter, so that there's no need to manually cut them if the print shop offers this service.).

Damn you. I don't even have my boxes on a shelf that is displayed (it's behind a cabinet door) and I still want to do these now.

I think they look awesome, I wish that the Nintendo switch logo was a bit smaller

Had to pause the video on the photo of the alley, I was sure I recognised it. Yep, in my home city of Glasgow. I have peed down that alley on a night out once.

I actually prefer the red spines. Which is weird because normally I'd like the graphic spines but something about the red lineup looks clean and you know they're Switch games

My guy COOKED with this, Now I want Nintendo to do this

Man, what a huge upgrade! Looks great! Wanna talk about something that will drive a perfectionist crazy... The nice, uniform look on the red spines is mostly ok. Except when you get a PAL version of some games. My Astral Chain is PAL and the game title is in the MIDDLE instead of left aligned. It's the only one I have like that! It makes me freaking crazy!

I like the red spines, would be nice if it had the logo of the spine but uniform all in the middle