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(Bedrock Split-Screen) HUD/Menu Zoom-in Option

The worst part about playing Minecraft Split-Screen on the Nintendo Switch is the inability to zoom-in on the HUD/Menus. We can play the game 20 feet away from the TV and adjust our Field-of-view to make it workable on such a small screen, but we have to stand 5 feet away from the TV if we want to tell the difference between Stone and Andesite when looking through our inventory. Not only is the text hard to read but the inventory menu itself takes up only about %50 of the screen, which isn't enough to tell what item you've selected and also not enough to see what's going on around the menu because of how small the screen already has become in split-screen.

 

We would simply like the option to be able to magnify the text size and HUD size to make 2-4 players on the same screen more feasible on screens smaller than 50 inches. We can already manipulate the HUD Opacity (which even has a setting for multiplayer and a separate one for split-screen), a simple slider to adjust how much of the screen the HUD takes up and possibly a second one to adjust the text size would be awesome.

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    My kids have to sit so close to the screen to see in split-screen on Switch. There's plenty of room for a bigger hud.

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    Same for Xbox one. We have literally had to rearrange our entire living room to get the TV closer so we can see what we have in our inventory. Super freaking annoying.

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    Almost four years after this post, we still don't have a GUI enhancement on the split-screen. Come on, people, you can do better than that.

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    I just bought the game on Switch 2, and the size of the text and inventory icons makes the game unplayable in split screen.

    I simply can't read it unless I am right next to the TV, and good luck seeing the difference between the pickaxe icon and the hoe icon when it is so small!

    A bit wild that the game has so many accessbility options, but somehow you don't have a slider for text size? Let alone for scaling the inventory/crafting UI.

    This is very disappointing and ruins the experience on console for couch coop.