OTBWY said:
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? |
It's not a jeuvenile argument. This techology is extremely mature at this point. There is no techncial excuse why voice chat cannot be implemented within the Switch itself without the use of a cell phone. The resources required to run such a voice chat solution are minimal, especially considering, once again, that the Vita manages to do this just fine on an OS that required less than 10% of the resources than the Switch dedicates to its OS. You're acting like this is a huge burden for the system to handle, but that isn't in line with reality.
