Switch online requires Phone App? Why is no one talking about this?

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Soundwave said:

Adamblaziken said:
It makes no sense for this to be the only option. Just wait for them to clarify

The reasoning could be that this is Nintendo's way of preventing kids from communicating/playing with people they shouldn't be playing with, most young kids don't have their own smartphone, so they'd either have to be old enough to have their own phone or use their parents phone to play online, which alerts the parent that their kid is playing a game online. 

If it is a parental control option that can be activated and isn't a mandatory feature then sure this could be a good thing. Though unless the feaqture is defaulted to being on and users of a certain age have to turn it off in system settings, then it's unlikely such an option will ever be used, because 0.01% of parents who buy their kids Nintendo gaming devices have any sort of clue about this sort of stuff. And the kids will soon easily figure out how to turn it off, so only at point of sale, if the parent is buying it and the sales staff actually runs through the parental control stuff and has the parent download the app on their phone and sort everything out would it function as an effective parental control system.