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monocle_layton on 31 January 2017
SegataSanshiro said:
Don't own a smartphone or tablet. Guess I will never use voice chat.

You could always pick up a decent smartphone for $50-100. I'd recommend it so you can have GPS and whatnot with you anywhere you go. 

 

I don't really use my phone much- I read the news when I'm bored at work, and answer a few calls. Otherwise, I don't really get hooked onto it.



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superchunk on 31 January 2017

Who cares about your voice chat complaint. Why is local multiplayer limited to multiple devices? Why no split screen?



SegataSanshiro on 31 January 2017
monocle_layton said:
SegataSanshiro said:
Don't own a smartphone or tablet. Guess I will never use voice chat.

You could always pick up a decent smartphone for $50-100. I'd recommend it so you can have GPS and whatnot with you anywhere you go. 

 

I don't really use my phone much- I read the news when I'm bored at work, and answer a few calls. Otherwise, I don't really get hooked onto it.

Too much money and no use for it.



m_csquare on 31 January 2017
Nuvendil said:
Still not sure what they mean by using smart devices. Is it the actual vehicle for chats? Is it how you set up parties? Like, what is it.

In the interest of pointing out some irony, I will say the integrated general chat on my PS4 is a ghost town in games like Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, etc etc. And very few people I know use it, most opting for Skype. Kinda funny that while people are desperate for integrated voice chat on Switch, integrated voice chat at least on PS4 is pretty under utilized from what I have seen (probably due to how obnoxious it can be).

Which is why some games have the option to mute player. And how does this app even prevent those toxic players from talking to you? That argument is defly not a valid reason for no built-in voice chat



Frogger on 31 January 2017

Who knows. Maybe the app will just make sense once we have it.

This ambiguity is terrible for PR, though.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 31 January 2017

What a nonsense method if its the only way of doing it...



                  

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Frogger on 31 January 2017
SegataSanshiro said:
Don't own a smartphone or tablet. Guess I will never use voice chat.

I feel like if you're fine with not owning a smartphone, you're probably not someone who care's about something like voice chat, anyway.



SegataSanshiro on 31 January 2017
spemanig said:
SegataSanshiro said:
Don't own a smartphone or tablet. Guess I will never use voice chat.

I feel like if you're fine with not owning a smartphone, you're probably not someone who care's about something like voice chat, anyway.

I like having the option and not force dinto owning something else for a feature that should be built in. My Dreamcast has better voicechat than a 2017 console. Yes you can still hook the DC online.



Nuvendil on 31 January 2017
m_csquare said:
Nuvendil said:
Still not sure what they mean by using smart devices. Is it the actual vehicle for chats? Is it how you set up parties? Like, what is it.

In the interest of pointing out some irony, I will say the integrated general chat on my PS4 is a ghost town in games like Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, etc etc. And very few people I know use it, most opting for Skype. Kinda funny that while people are desperate for integrated voice chat on Switch, integrated voice chat at least on PS4 is pretty under utilized from what I have seen (probably due to how obnoxious it can be).

Which is why some games have the option to mute player. And how does this app even prevent those toxic players from talking to you? That argument is defly not a valid reason for no built-in voice chat

I never said it was an argument, just that the situation is an ammusing juxtaposition. 



TK-Karma on 31 January 2017

Hmm this isn't that surprising, after what we've previously heard, but the closer we get to the actual release, I feel it's going to have an increasingly larger impact. I won't mind, personally, but I can see why other people would.