By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Nintendo - Is the switch lack of RAM the reason why Nintendo is locking online features to smartphones?

DS has voice chat. The original DS. It had only 4MB of ram.



Around the Network

I had online on my old 64 mb Win 98 computer. Ethernet to boot.



“Simple minds have always confused great honesty with great rudeness.” - Sherlock Holmes, Elementary (2013).

"Did you guys expected some actual rational fact-based reasoning? ...you should already know I'm all about BS and fraudulence." - FunFan, VGchartz (2016)



cycycychris said:
SegataSanshiro said:

DS has voice chat. The original DS. It had only 4MB of ram.

That wasn't a party chat system, which if I'm not mistake is suppose to be simalar to what MS and Sony have. Which is not being run through the game, but rather through the system UI...

idk, I read this earlier.

maybe it's true, who knows.



Oh God! Switch doesn't have voice???? And you have to pay for online???



Around the Network

seems that the games are not using 4Gb ram. The detail level in texture seems similar to wii U games, and they use 1 Gb of ram...



Not sure if it is a limitation or an innovation. It could be more convenient to just do it on our phones, I'm not quite sure how it works.



Dulfite said:
Not sure if it is a limitation or an innovation. It could be more convenient to just do it on our phones, I'm not quite sure how it works.

Yeah. The battery is low enough! 



Pocky Lover Boy! 

Wait, what?



Proud to be the first cool Nintendo fan ever

Number ONE Zelda fan in the Universe

DKCTF didn't move consoles

Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

Predictions for Nintendo NX and Mobile


VitaminZ said:
Oh God! Switch doesn't have voice???? And you have to pay for online???

Yes and you dont get any games for it, you "rent" the game for a month, after that you wont be able to play it, unless you buy it.

The games you ll get as a reward for being a paying subcriber is VC NES/SNES games (a few rented each month).