Splatoon 2 has voice chat... "using smart devices"

[COKTOE]

spemanig said:

COKTOE said:

The whole shebang should be a part of the system. It's a well established industry standard. Nintendo's trying to kick water uphill when we already have aquaducts.

Who's to say it isn't progress? Smartphones have taken websites and made them theirs. They've taken music and film and literature and made experiencing all of it more convenient. Who's to say Nintendo isn't doing the same with their app? Social media was a computer thing. Now it's a phone thing. Ordering take out, calling taxies, giving money to friends, and even online shopping: all of that is far superior through apps than they are in any other form. How do you know Nintendo hasn't done that for voice chat and other online functions?

I'm not necessarily saying that they have, but options halt progress, because no one cares about doing things better - they care about doing things comfortably. If the app is this obviously superior way to do online, what benefit is there to giving people the option to have an inferior experience? There is none. If the app is awesome, and everybody uses it, then everybody will talk it up, and more people will learn that Nintendo's online is awesome faster. If the app is awesome, and only some people use it, then that process is much slower and touches less people. And if it sucks, then the online would have sucked either way, and nothing is lost.

Flip phones were the industry standard until iphone made the touch screen an industry standard. Standards aren't hard rules, and standards don't make progress until people challenge them. Home consoles are the industry standard, but Nintendo is showing that there is potential desire for tabletop consoles with the Switch.

Someone else said it: voice chat has been pretty much exactly the same since the Dreamcast. Why doesn't that deserve to be challenged? Maybe this app will suck, but I'm not going to shame Nintendo for trying something new. The execution is what will matter, not the idea.

Ohhh man. I quoted the wrong guy. :) You have way more energy than me. That's about as good of an argument as can be made in favor of the direction the Switch's online is taking. The option to use an alternate method would be nice and all, if it had some type of perk(s). I don't see what they would be yet. I just want to be able to point my face at my handheld and make with the yakkity-yak without getting a smartphone involved. I'm pretty mental over the whole thing.