Same Old Nintendo - KindaFunnyGames

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BeatdownBrigade said:

bdbdbd said:

Umm... yeah, but don't they have just as much options, only that Nintendo is doing it better?

Competition offers both native and app based chat. The issue is Nintendo is offering only the app based solution and making you pay for access to it. This is the cutting corners and cheaper solution than having a robust online infrastructure. Not everyone has large or unlimited data plans on their smartphones so they either need to use it exclusively on wifi or pay for better data plans. And speaking of wifi something like 20% of Americans with broadband internet still do not have Wifi connections. That number is even lower in some other countries in the world and the Switch's dock does not come with an ethernet port. Meaning a LAN adapter is also necessary for those people.

Also the issue of how Nintendo intends, if at all, to deal with getting both game audio and voice chat audio into the same headset. And to deal with the issue of how much background noise a smartphones mic picks up. Overall hard to see how offering less options behind a paywall, and one that is still out of the question for a lot of people's internet and mobile options in the world.

I see. It's like paid online then. It's something you'd need to pay for, but not having an infrastructure means you can't use it. Which is why a shit service like that should be free because then you would not a use a worse free online service and pay nothing for it, instead of not using a better online service and pay nothing for it. This was argument, right? If it wasn't, could you elaborate what it is then?

If you're required to buy yourself a LAN adapter to play online, you don't have unlimited data on your mobile and you do not have a wifi access point, the obvious solution would be buy the access point instead of LAN adapter anyway. Having a wireless connection for all my devices was my main reason to buy an access point a decade ago, instead of LAN adapter, to have my Wii online.

Maybe the audio is streamed directly to your smartphone.