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Aerys on 31 January 2017
NATO said:
about the only way i can explain to myself the stupid choices nintendo have been making with switch, is to assume that at some point Nintendo plan on releasing their own smartphone.



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Mystro-Sama on 31 January 2017

I swear Nintendo has to be the daftest fucking company in existence.



NATO on 01 February 2017
mZuzek said:
I don't see what's so bad about it.

I mean, it's like using Discord, but you have to pay for it. What's there to dislike?

 

  • using discord
  • paying for it

 



Thespiralmatrix on 01 February 2017

What kills me is that you will have to pay for your phone, pay for your data then pay Nintendo to use said services.

I really don't know how they green light such ideas. I'll just call my friends in a party call and skip the middle man.



NATO on 01 February 2017
mZuzek said:
NATO said:
  • using discord
  • paying for it

Yeah. Doesn't it sound completely awesome?

I can't wait to give them my money, here's hoping they put avatar selection behind a paywall too, that'd be awesome.



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Frogger on 01 February 2017
COKTOE said:
spemanig said:

I feel like smartphones are so ubiquitous that it's not really an issue. Most people who own consumer electronic devices like consoles and care about something as social as voice chat for an online multiplayer game will be part of the demographic who would be attracted to smartphones in the first place, so I don't see issue in making a move like this under that assumption. As long as there's some way to transfer game audio, there's no big downgrade in using a smartphones instead of the base console.

The whole shebang should be a part of the system. It's a well established industry standard. Nintendo's trying to kick water uphill when we already have aquaducts.

Who's to say it isn't progress? Smartphones have taken websites and made them theirs. They've taken music and film and literature and made experiencing all of it more convenient. Who's to say Nintendo isn't doing the same with their app? Social media was a computer thing. Now it's a phone thing. Ordering take out, calling taxies, giving money to friends, and even online shopping: all of that is far superior through apps than they are in any other form. How do you know Nintendo hasn't done that for voice chat and other online functions?

I'm not necessarily saying that they have, but options halt progress, because no one cares about doing things better - they care about doing things comfortably. If the app is this obviously superior way to do online, what benefit is there to giving people the option to have an inferior experience? There is none. If the app is awesome, and everybody uses it, then everybody will talk it up, and more people will learn that Nintendo's online is awesome faster. If the app is awesome, and only some people use it, then that process is much slower and touches less people. And if it sucks, then the online would have sucked either way, and nothing is lost.

Flip phones were the industry standard until iphone made the touch screen an industry standard. Standards aren't hard rules, and standards don't make progress until people challenge them. Home consoles are the industry standard, but Nintendo is showing that there is potential desire for tabletop consoles with the Switch.

Someone else said it: voice chat has been pretty much exactly the same since the Dreamcast. Why doesn't that deserve to be challenged? Maybe this app will suck, but I'm not going to shame Nintendo for trying something new. The execution is what will matter, not the idea.



Frogger on 01 February 2017

Stupid question - can you use voice chat on the PS4/XBO when you're not on your console?

In other words, if all your friends are in a party, but you're not by your PS4/XBO, you can't join, right? That would be a pretty cool marketable advantage for the Switch.



Boberkun on 01 February 2017
curl-6 said:

http://www.gonintendo.com/stories/273077-splatoon-2-to-feature-voice-chat

I just don't understand why Nintendo seem to find it so hard to implement things their competitors have had down pat for so long. Xbox Live has had chat through the system itself since the original Xbox, but Nintendo can't do it on a system launching in 2017? It's like they go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot.

It does not really matter, paid online already killed Splatoon "2".



m_csquare on 01 February 2017
spemanig said:
Stupid question - can you use voice chat on the PS4/XBO when you're not on your console?

In other words, if all your friends are in a party, but you're not by your PS4/XBO, you can't join, right? That would be a pretty cool marketable advantage for the Switch.

There are already thousands apps for that kind of thing on mobile phone



monocle_layton on 01 February 2017
m_csquare said:
spemanig said:
Stupid question - can you use voice chat on the PS4/XBO when you're not on your console?

In other words, if all your friends are in a party, but you're not by your PS4/XBO, you can't join, right? That would be a pretty cool marketable advantage for the Switch.

There are already thousands apps for that kind of thing on mobile phone

so there's clearly demand for it then, right? nintendo can make a voice chat app for the Switch to get more users to join. I can see a Wechat type of strategy for Nintendo to gain power in voice chat apps