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

[Faelco]

Hynad said:

Faelco said:

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.

Of course, the only possible reasons are negative ones. -_____-

Can we wait until Nintendo reveal their actual plans, and reasoning, before we make such assumptions and hasty conclusions? 

You can't find positive reasons for the lack of an obvious and common feature, sorry. Mistakes have been made about this, that's all, and even Nintendo didn't succeed in justifying this so far (and they've been asked to several times already).