Why, Nintendo Switch Online? Why?

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superchunk said:

Yerm said:
i'll consider this Nintendo's first draft. its very likely that they will go back and revise this over the next month or so

This is possibly true. They could just abandon the idea and keep whatever version of online play is in Switch now.

It definitely needs wireless headset support and ability to remain active in background.

Or we could just wait for the app to be fully functional...

They clearly released it now because they wanted to push the Splatoon companion service without having to integrate it later. All the missing features or functions will probably added via updates in the months preceding the official launch of the service.