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

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spemanig said:

Normchacho said:

In what possible way could a smartphone app improve voice chat that couldn't be implemented in an app on the Switch itself?

You made this big long post about how Nintendo is trying to change the way we use voice chat, and how giving people options halts progress, but you never said what that progress was.

There are several clear downsides to using an app for voice chat instead of having it built into the system, and to defend it you've had to use really broad statements about technological progress. That alone should tell you this is a dumb idea.

If I knew the answer to that, I wouldn't be talking to you, I'd be selling the idea. It's not my job to know how to make a product work, but I can be open minded, and there's reason to be, as made obvious in that post.

What are those clear downsides, by the way? Enlighten me.

The clear downside is needing an app and an ancillary device to do everything that the Vita could do in 2011. I used to be able to howl at the moon without doing a voodoo dance around a burning barrel. No matter the platform. Now, with the Switch, there's a cememony involved. No.......NO! C'mon man. You see this.