Childintime wrote:hunk wrote:The botched voice chat is due to Nintendo's (irrational?) fear of paedos potentally abusing the feature to chat up young ones. Could potentialy taint the brand's rep with families, all that's needed is 1 scandal and people sueing ninty all out.
Of course Nintendo could implement native voice chat on the switch. They're not doing it because it's their way of protecting the little ones from 'strangers' on the net and give parents more control over what kids are doing.
Doubt it - how does using an official Nintendo app to have paedo chat differ from using the switch directly? I'd put money on that not being the reason.
If I had to hazard a guess I'd put it down to tech or battery life issues, but definitely not them being overprotective.
mistercrayon wrote:There was an explanation by Reggie which also suggested they wanted you to play wifi multiplayer at outdoor hot sports. The app will push when you can play I guess and who is online then and there.
The other reason I would guess is that I'm not sure they wanted to put a chat solution in the controllers.
g.man wrote:I have no idea what Fire Emblem is.
Dark Soldier wrote:What if ya don't have a smartphone? Just blessed with randoms for the console's life?
Moot_Geeza wrote:Super Mario Clusterfuck.
cindemon wrote:Also hope they truly embrace online this time with all the bells & whistles that should be included as standard, yet I fear they may not, as they are to "protect the kiddies" focused. The least they can do this time is at least give owners the options in parental controls.
cindemon wrote:Feel they didn't even need to mention the Switch version, glad it's coming, but without any info/concept art or even a name, it's hard to get hyped, tbh I was left with the same feeling when Suda took the stage with a Mr Touchdown in the background, just feels a little flat(& a smidge desperate in a weird sorta of way) with nothing more that a proposed release date, which I'm sure will slip.
Moot_Geeza wrote:cindemon wrote:Feel they didn't even need to mention the Switch version, glad it's coming, but without any info/concept art or even a name, it's hard to get hyped, tbh I was left with the same feeling when Suda took the stage with a Mr Touchdown in the background, just feels a little flat(& a smidge desperate in a weird sorta of way) with nothing more that a proposed release date, which I'm sure will slip.
I'm glad they announced it, but if they're willing to merely tantalise fans to drum up interest they probably should've done the same with Pokemon at the main reveal.
cindemon wrote:...& I wrote a long time ago back on page 1...
cindemon wrote:Also hope they truly embrace online this time with all the bells & whistles that should be included as standard, yet I fear they may not, as they are to "protect the kiddies" focused. The least they can do this time is at least give owners the options in parental controls.
Oh Nintendo, what are you playing at? You just had to copy what your competitors have been doing the last decade etc, you didn't need to "Nintendo" such a simple thang.
mistercrayon wrote:See the issue here is what is there to copy paste which will work across the handheld mode, the docked mode and potential outside wifi mode? I don't think it's easy to transplant psn (hacks ahoy) onto a framework that is handheld and a console. There are probably engineering concerns too (battery, ram) which are probably smarter to offload in order to maximise console quality stuff in handheld mode.cindemon wrote:...& I wrote a long time ago back on page 1...Oh Nintendo, what are you playing at? You just had to copy what your competitors have been doing the last decade etc, you didn't need to "Nintendo" such a simple thang.cindemon wrote:Also hope they truly embrace online this time with all the bells & whistles that should be included as standard, yet I fear they may not, as they are to "protect the kiddies" focused. The least they can do this time is at least give owners the options in parental controls.
monkey wrote:Nintendo Smartphone thing doesn't seem to be about paedo protection. If anything it might make it more susceptible as now the paedo doesn't need an expensive console to start a grooming session, just a few clicks on his phone.
The only excuse to me that justifies this farce is that putting it through the console becomes equally awkward if you've got it propped up on a table with two players using it, or whatever other crazy use cases there are. But this just makes it a faff for everyone everytime they go online.
It's just incompetence innit? No one designs a complicated system if they've got the skill to make it simple.
bad_hair_day wrote:Having to choose between the game soundtrack and voice comms is a disconnect.
mistercrayon wrote:You get one in the box which holds the joy cons. The bundled one doesn't have a USB pass through so it's literally a shell.
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