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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Splatoon 2 has voice chat... "using smart devices"

Frogger 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

Are they first party apps?



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m_csquare on 01 February 2017
monocle_layton said:
m_csquare said:

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

Pls tell that to miitomo



m_csquare on 01 February 2017
spemanig said:
m_csquare said:

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

Are they first party apps?

Does it even freakin matter? I swear these questions sometimes..



KLAMarine on 01 February 2017

Don't care for voice chat at all in Splatoon 2. Rarely used it playing games on 360.



KLAMarine on 01 February 2017

The Switch should be able to run an app for voice chat fine... I wonder if this is just a way for Nintendo to install another one of their apps to your phone? Dunno.

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.

I imagine if you're away, your phone will be able to notify you that your friends are playing something or whatever...



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Frogger on 01 February 2017
m_csquare said:
spemanig said:

Are they first party apps?

Does it even freakin matter? I swear these questions sometimes..

Lmao, are you joking? Of course it matters. What, are you talking about Skype or something? Can you not see the objective advantage to being able to access these functions directly from your platform friends list everyone on the platform has instead of from a third party friend's list? 1st party apps are more convenient because they're more integrated. I don't have to add every Nintendo friend I make to Skype just so I can talk to them, making sure they all have skype in the first place. It also makes the network bigger and more reliable. Everyone with a Nintendo subscription should have the app, meaning the breadth of who can join a party expands. With a not everyone who has a Nintendo subscription will have Skype, meaning the web of interconnectivity is immediately smaller. On PS4, when I join a party, i have a possible web of everyone I'm friends with, everyone they're friends with, and so forth infinitely who can be added with ease. That can't happen with third party apps. It's clunky and not ideal for social interaction, which is the point.



Frogger on 01 February 2017
KLAMarine said:

The Switch should be able to run an app for voice chat fine... I wonder if this is just a way for Nintendo to install another one of their apps to your phone? Dunno.

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.

I imagine if you're away, your phone will be able to notify you that your friends are playing something or whatever...

I mean, that's a given. What's up for grabs is literally being able to join party chats while away from your Switch. That would be cool.



monocle_layton on 01 February 2017
m_csquare said:
spemanig said:

Are they first party apps?

Does it even freakin matter? I swear these questions sometimes..

No need to be such a dick about it.

 

They're good questions that basically point to the bigger question- what potential does Nintendo have with these apps? Seeing how most people said they use Skype, imagine if even 5% of all skype users used Nintendo's service- that is a lot of people.



m_csquare on 01 February 2017
spemanig said:
m_csquare said:

Does it even freakin matter? I swear these questions sometimes..

Lmao, are you joking? Of course it matters. What, are you talking about Skype or something? Can you not see the objective advantage to being able to access these functions directly from your platform friends list everyone on the platform has instead of from a third party friend's list? 1st party apps are more convenient because they're more integrated. I don't have to add every Nintendo friend I make to Skype just so I can talk to them, making sure they all have skype in the first place. It also makes the network bigger and more reliable. Everyone with a Nintendo subscription should have the app, meaning the breadth of who can join a party expands. With a not everyone who has a Nintendo subscription will have Skype, meaning the web of interconnectivity is immediately smaller. On PS4, when I join a party, i have a possible web of everyone I'm friends with, everyone they're friends with, and so forth infinitely who can be added with ease. That can't happen with third party apps. It's clunky and not ideal for social interaction, which is the point.

Sure if you think it matters

 

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/ps4/features/playstation-app/

 

http://store.steampowered.com/mobile

 

I for once never see those things matter. When was the last time you see ppl complain abt the  lack of those features from these two apps?



KLAMarine on 01 February 2017
m_csquare said:
spemanig said:

Lmao, are you joking? Of course it matters. What, are you talking about Skype or something? Can you not see the objective advantage to being able to access these functions directly from your platform friends list everyone on the platform has instead of from a third party friend's list? 1st party apps are more convenient because they're more integrated. I don't have to add every Nintendo friend I make to Skype just so I can talk to them, making sure they all have skype in the first place. It also makes the network bigger and more reliable. Everyone with a Nintendo subscription should have the app, meaning the breadth of who can join a party expands. With a not everyone who has a Nintendo subscription will have Skype, meaning the web of interconnectivity is immediately smaller. On PS4, when I join a party, i have a possible web of everyone I'm friends with, everyone they're friends with, and so forth infinitely who can be added with ease. That can't happen with third party apps. It's clunky and not ideal for social interaction, which is the point.

Sure if you think it matters

 

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/ps4/features/playstation-app/

 

http://store.steampowered.com/mobile

 

I for once never see those things matter. When was the last time you see ppl complain abt the  lack of those features from these two apps?

Wow, had no idea these things existed.