Nintendo Switch Online app available for download today

[vivster]

OTBWY said:

vivster said:

No 3G is certainly no reason to offload online functions to a smartphone. The non-3G Vita does that just fine on the same device. Now it's your turn to explain why a 2012 mobile device has a more complete feature set than a 2017 mobile device.

Could you play your Vita online outside? Didn't know that. Certainly forgot how Sony got sued for it, and lost.

I'm getting real tired of the "its 2017" argument, so much so that it is getting juvenile and the only outcome is people wanting to say that Nintendo is incompetent. It should be pretty obvious and logical why they did what they did. First, it is their companion app. They have been moving to mobile for some time now. Second, almost everyone has a smartphone in 2017. Unburdening the Switch itself (which is bound to wifi anyway) from those features should be pretty obvious. Lastly, other than voice chat being cumbersome, whats the big effing deal? Battery life? Having to pick up your phone?

I can play with my Vita outside thanks to Smartphone WLAN tethering. Why can't the Switch do exactly that? Without the need to constantly pick up your phone to look at it. Why do I have to use two devices for something that every other device can do on its own? How is that serving the experience? Why is the Switch in functionality so much inferior than a $100 handheld from 2012?

I'm not saying Nintendo is incompetent. I'm saying they're incredibly greedy. Being incompetent is the nicer alternative.