Fewer Games is Never a Good Thing

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MTZehvor said:

All of that is fine for an optional app, but there's no reason why it should be entirely replacing just pulling up the chat on screen. And it will probably cross over into the realm of fiddling when you want to start chatting during a game with strangers. You'd likely have to wait until the game starts (or you get into a lobby), then stop looking at the TV to find the "chat" button on your phone, press that, and then turn your attention back to the TV. And if a particularly annoying person joins the chat and you want to mute them in game? You probably won't be able to do so without using your phone as well, which means looking down from the TV for a few seconds, finding the button on your phone, and hitting mute. This task can be accomplished by pressing a single button on PS4, XBO, and PC, and can easily be done in game without having to look away.

If the app were just an optional, different way to access chats, and could be used to set up games with people ahead of time, I'd likely be all for it. The point is making it the only way to access chat in game, and having to switch between looking at it and the TV during play sessions, is simply making a task more complicated than it needs to be. Of course, if there were ever a phrase that described Nintendo as of late, it would be "making things more complicated than they need to be."

I have to agree with your description, and that's really been their problem lately.

Even if you'd need the app to use chat, it still doesn't mean you could not control the chat and the app with your console while playing.