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

[Faelco]

Soundwave said:

My read on this is I think like for games like Splatoon 2 you'll be able to play online just the same way the Wii U does (no app needed).

BUT if you want to do the matchmaking, playing with friends, playing with voice chat stuff ... all that is going to have to be done through the smartphone app.

This is one way Nintendo is keeping kids from playing with "strangers" as younger kids will likely be forced to have to use their parents phone, and then their parents will be able to see who they're playing with. 

Because you can only watch what your kid is doing when he's using your phone? If he's using a computer or a console, he's on his own?

 

No. There is no reason like this behind this app. The only reasons Nintendo did this are :

- The Switch is too weak to run games efficiently so they tried to reduce the OS size as much as they could, leading to obvious design flaws and missing features (maybe because of a bad R&D management involving people who never used a console and are unable to know the important features). We'll surely have other "surprises" like this after the launch by the way.

- They didn't only find a way to avoid this flaw afterwards (not fix, just avoid, don't ask for too much), they found a way to charge people for it, adding "value" to their online sub in the same process.

 

Smaller OS, for more money, and the players will take care themselves of what Nintendo should have done. People will be happy to pay for this "innovation". Welcome to the 80s.