Nintendo, please listen to your consumers. No one wants to use the moblie app for voice chat.
Doubling down on the app would literally have to be one of your biggest mistakes as a company, and a complete turn-off from your online service. It is incredibly inconvenient and a hassle to use a feature that has already been easy to use and understand for years, as well with rooms and messaging. A better online experience would be having all of these features built into the switch itself. We gave our grievances about it when it launched, and you developers have done nothing this past year to improve on it. We will not support your service until you fix your service.
It's kind of mind-blowing how little Nintendo seems to care about online play, given that so many of their first party games have such a strong multiplayer focus.
I mean, sure, Mario Kart is always going to be more fun with my friends on the couch with me. But for the most part, when I'm hanging out with people in real life, we're doing something other than playing video games, so it'd be really nice to have some good streamlined online features.
Someone please explain to me how nintendo thinks they can get away with what was an outdated system 10 years ago? What the fuck is the thought process. How did a group of presumably intelligent people come together and say "Ok so we all agree this is just perfect right good. No outside opinions. lets ship it." How did this terrible system happen.
It's not even a japanese pride thing because Sony figured it out. Some one needs to go into every major executive meeting and have a sound board with one button that just says "it is [current year] think about that." this man's job is to push the button every time some one talks about an idea better suited to over 10 years ago.
No HDCP.
Another parasitical hollywood Macrovision type scam bullshit requirement making things worse for consumers and adding unnecessary cost to device manufacture. The technology was cracked almost a decade ago, and you can trivially buy inexpensive chinese HDMI "splitters" with multiple outputs, one of which will have a HDCP-free signal.
Voice Chat tied to a Mobile App.
Friend Codes.
Online will support only 20 NES games.
2 years of no cloud saves and countless data lost (including my own BOTW save data).
Third party support is glorified game ports from years past and games people have moved on from a year prior.
Amiibos being dropped almost entirely outside of now being just statues. You can literally just buy one and it has the same function as any other same named Amiibo.
Nintendo has made plenty of mistakes and has plenty of flaws.
Nintendo consistently fails in the networking department. It's like clockwork.
Started with Gamecube being internet-compatible but never delivering (except for Phantasy Star Online). Then we got wonky networking systems and lag on the Wii, the WiiU, and now the Switch.
They will go to painstaking lengths to make a quality game, but they don't take anywhere near that same approach to making online features work, and it's really saddening.
What’s crazy is that the WiiU and 3DS actually had more capable online features. The wiiu did away with friend codes and we could still use our names. It had video calling, video services, miiverse, which was great except for all the children on there, and actual virtual console although it wasn’t the greatest. The 3ds had drawing apps where you could somewhat send messages to friends, and miiverse.
THE WII HAD BETTER ONLINE FEATURES. It had video services, messaging using the wii bulletin board thing, and random online channels like weather. In fact Japan had a bunch of channels that expanded its use in a pre smartphone world like a delivery channel.
The problem is that one of Nintendo’s tenets is that consumers don’t know what they want. If they decide on doing something they almost always stick with it because any backlash is just people not understanding their vision. So this results in awesome innovation, unique games, and a mysterious cult-like company that makes a lot of dumbfounding and seemingly stupid decisions. The problem is just that those stupid decisions are actually very well founded from their point of view, and they don’t even feel the need to explain themselves to anybody.
Nintendo invest millions in market research and product development. The 10% out of the 1% of Switch users that, being generous here, make up this sub, do not influence how that turns out at all. As much as I agree voice chat shouldn't be relegated to an external device, I realise that they don't cater to me or anyone else here.
My best guess is that the majority of users aren't particularly interested in online, and as a result simply don't care how voice chat is handled. This is what Nintendo sees, and this is what they act on.
Because why spend time on a feature when their target demographic doesn’t care and it doesn’t affect their bottom line? They’ve done the math and theyre not interested. Why would they when the console sells this well? Why not release overpriced ports when people buy them to the point that they sell dramatically better than the originals? Frankly the consumer is partially at fault for the fact that Nintendo has been able to get away with its stubborn ways.
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