Yeah so at this time it appears to me that you can just play online on the system like you would Mario Kart or Splatoon on the Wii U, but if you want to set up friends lobbies and chat etc, you will have to use the complimentary app, which I'm guessing will be something like Miitomo but with the affordance to create events and launch the game. But then hopefully a fuckton faster to load and use than miitomo.
I'm guessing because they want to tie it into the Nintendo coins and stuff (which then the service should be free ugh), or because they think the dual setup better protects children from online abuse than if they allow the voice chat with strangers in the standard game.
As someone not at all interested in voice chat (primarily because of the abuse) I would be okay with that setup really. But then that could also mean I'm just doing a wishful thinking here.
I'm guessing because they want to tie it into the Nintendo coins and stuff (which then the service should be free ugh), or because they think the dual setup better protects children from online abuse than if they allow the voice chat with strangers in the standard game.
As someone not at all interested in voice chat (primarily because of the abuse) I would be okay with that setup really. But then that could also mean I'm just doing a wishful thinking here.