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How do you like the app?

Greatest thing since sliced bread 0 0%
 
Ok ... I guess? 3 30.00%
 
Why Nintendo! WHY! 7 70.00%
 
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GoOnKid on 19 July 2017
archer9234 said:
OTBWY said:

Yeah, i'm done responding to anyone this thread. Juvenile crap like this makes me jaded.

Yeah sure. You don't give any realistic reason why this is a good option. You just insult people. If it's battery drain. The normal local multiplayer drains the battery the same too. If it's a design limitation. Then Nintendo failed to care for basic stuff. This only helps a few people that can't make their phones act as a hotspots. Even than. If they have public wi-fi that would work fine. So again why? If you like playing with a set amount of online only friends. You are most likley going to be in a discord channel. I'm not even arguing for it to not exist. This would help that small niche. Just have it on the system too and be done with it.  

I'm not taking part in your discussion, I just want to say that he indeed gave good reasons, you just ignore them. I also think that this solution is questionable at best and  impractical at worst, yet it's still not that huuuuuuge a deal like you and others in this thread make it. Don't like it, don't use it. And on top of that, Splatoon is STILL a game that doesn't even need voice chat all that much. Also any other Switch online games so far don't need voice chat necessarily. Voice chat is just a bonus for those who want to use it but it won't help you play better.



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Cloudman on 19 July 2017

Interesting, I'll need to check out the app later to see how it works.



 

              

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Mandalore76 on 19 July 2017
KBG29 said:
vivster said:

The question would be why a mobile device in 2017 does not have a constant online connection.

That's what I've been saying. If they offered a 4G model, I would have bought in day one, or been on the hunt for one. The 3G Vita is the best mobile device I have ever owned, and I really want the Switch to be the successor to it at some point. 

Hopefully, it won't be long before we get a Switch revision. I would love to have online services, calling, texting, all built in, directly from a Switch Phone in the next couple of years.

No, just.. no.  Nintendo is not in the cell phone industry.  They are in the gaming industry.  Nobody wants to hold a device that has a screen large enough to enjoy console gaming on the go to their ear to make a phone call.

LOL at the people claiming they want that in a dedicated gaming device.  Maybe you should ask Nokia to make an NGage XL with larger screen so we can bring this back:



Ljink96 on 19 July 2017
Slarvax said:
Ljink96 said:
I hear it's garbage, is this true?

You can't lock your phone while using it.

Sounds like garbage to me. Hopefully the Discord thing goes through. Or better yet, just use discord on your phone...



zygote on 19 July 2017

I have turned notifications on the app off and on a few times now. Pretty pleased so far.



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Volterra_90 on 19 July 2017
Slarvax said:
Ljink96 said:
I hear it's garbage, is this true?

You can't lock your phone while using it.

Lol, that's genius.



Gourmet on 19 July 2017

Sideloading on the console would require RAM and CPU reserved ALL THE TIME. Like games can't even use 3GB of the RAM on XBO/PS4. For a feature less than 2% use even in highly teamplay games like MOBAs. Seriously, this is for the better.



GoOnKid on 19 July 2017
Gourmet said:
Sideloading on the console would require RAM and CPU reserved ALL THE TIME. Like games can't even use 3GB of the RAM on XBO/PS4. For a feature less than 2% use even in highly teamplay games like MOBAs. Seriously, this is for the better.

You know, there's a "valid" counter argument and that is that it's not 2012 anymore. And that's right, it really isn't 2012 anymore, it's 2017.



Ganoncrotch on 19 July 2017
Mummelmann said:
vivster said:

Yes, that's Nintendo's rationale on how to save money by offloading services they don't want to provide on the consumer.

Now the real kicker is: why are there consumers trying to defend that scummy behavior?

Kinda agree with this, Nintendo have a history of skimping on features and basic hardware and offload the cost and hassle on the customer. Such behavior shouldn't be condoned or defended in any way, by any company. This is why I stopped buying phones from Samsung, Sony or Apple, just got tired of all the BS with their phones and software and the insanely priced peripherals and repairs.

Yeah I wouldn't say people are "defending" anything here, just a case of you want to use the system so you use the system with the pros and cons which come with that.

You want to play on the PC you give up a degree of simplicity and portability

You want to enjoy your gaming on the PS4 you get certain features, you miss out on some games like Halo and Forza

You love the WiiU.... well.... good for you then, but I'm sure games would have been nice right? :D

You know what I mean, no one defends the fact that the PS4 doesn't have Halo on it, or that you can't (easily) pick up your PC and take a shit while still playing Overwatch at 4k you just accept that certain devices have their pros and their cons, obviously in some cases for certain consumers the cons side just wins out and they avoid that piece of hardware, like yourself with the Phones you stopped using, I'm sure there are certain "cons" with whichever phone you do choose to use but you overlook that because you enjoy the Pros the system offers.

Like I said, I don't think the app is perfect by any means, but that's the system which is in place on the console.... I will play devils advocate for it in one small way though... it does mean you can let your kids continue to use the console to play MK8D without a worry about them getting called names by players online if you give the kid the console but not the mobile phone linked to it, so... as a child friendly system it does have some merit to the obvious negatives which are there for the gamer who just wants to throw on a headset and game.



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potato_hamster on 19 July 2017
OTBWY said:
vivster said:

No 3G is certainly no reason to offload online functions to a smartphone. The non-3G Vita does that just fine on the same device. Now it's your turn to explain why a 2012 mobile device has a more complete feature set than a 2017 mobile device.

Could you play your Vita online outside? Didn't know that. Certainly forgot how Sony got sued for it, and lost.

I'm getting real tired of the "its 2017" argument, so much so that it is getting juvenile and the only outcome is people wanting to say that Nintendo is incompetent. It should be pretty obvious and logical why they did what they did. First, it is their companion app. They have been moving to mobile for some time now. Second, almost everyone has a smartphone in 2017. Unburdening the Switch itself (which is bound to wifi anyway) from those features should be pretty obvious. Lastly, other than voice chat being cumbersome, whats the big effing deal? Battery life? Having to pick up your phone?

It's not a jeuvenile argument. This techology is extremely mature at this point. There is no techncial excuse why voice chat cannot be implemented within the Switch itself without the use of a cell phone. The resources required to run such a voice chat solution are minimal, especially considering, once again, that the Vita manages to do this just fine on an OS that required less than 10% of the resources than the Switch dedicates to its OS. You're acting like this is a huge burden for the system to handle, but that isn't in line with reality.