I...Don't think the Switch has voice chat.

[Normchacho]

fleischr said:

Mummelmann said:

God forbid acknowledging when Nintendo have a truly terrible idea.

This is ridiculous and can't possibly be defended, especially paired with all the other blunders they've already made with this thing. It's like they don't want to stay on the console market at all.

Don't overlook the fact that WiiU has zero system-wide voice chat. Messaging and accessing a friends list has always been really obtuse.

Would it be better if those features were natively within the console itself? Of course. But considering many people have their smartphone (including myself) within arms reach 24/7 - it doesn't bother me that much. If I have to use a smartphone app for voice chat, friends list and messaging, I can deal with that. If it truly integrates well with the Switch system well, the only real drawback is that you're draining you phone battery as well the Switch. It'll probably be much easier to adapt to than what all this faux-outrage would lead us to believe.

It's not faux outrage. It's 2017 and to charge for an online service that doesn't have a feature that is so obvious most people just assume it's included is insane.