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Ars: Early tests show bizarre issues with Nintendo Switch voice chat app
- Thread starter Zombie James
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Newtype-001
Member
Imagine fucking up basically phoning some1 im dead
Why do they even NEED the app for Splatoon 2 in the first place?? The app should be supplemental to the experience, not required for things like voice chat in the first place.
dugdug
Banned
If nothing else, this just sabotages Splatoon 2, even just a little bit. Especially if Nintendo have lofty eSports goals. Chat and communication need to have as little barriers as possible.
Lilalaunebaer
Member
I don´t play online multiplayer and thus don´t chat online. I´m a nintendo fanboy. And even i can say that this whole thing is legit the most stupid thing nintendo has ever done. And i actually mean it. From voice chat thing being an app you have to use your phone for. The phone not being able to turn off the screen. Needing a thingy to combine your phone with your switch and then plug your headphones into the thingy. The fact that if you use your switch on you tv and sit a bit away on the couch the whole thing is basically useless. And you´ll have to pay actual money next year to use it.
I´m genuinely dumbfounded.
I´m genuinely dumbfounded.
Dark Cloud
Member
This is a pretty elegant solution.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
It amazes me at how they made it worse than their previous attempts.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Palette Swap
Member
I can't imagine someone (or a group of someones really) would have designed this as a feature. I mean, that's comically stupid.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Why? Splatoon didn't need anything.
because Nintendo decided that having this functionality on an app instead of the Switch itself was a totally good idea
no seriously, that's what they did
the Splatoon fanbase will likely continue using discord like usual
purseowner
Member
I defended the app thing.
Not anymore. Blimey, Ninty.
Not anymore. Blimey, Ninty.
Nintendo are such a confusing company. So switched on at some things but utterly clueless when it comes to things like online.
What's evident is there's no secret sauce to this. Even if it worked as intended it'd still be a completely crappy basically worthless solution. I just can't understand why you'd blow the time and effort into creating such an obviously poor solution rather than invest that time in at the very least matching the expected behavior of modern systems.
What's evident is there's no secret sauce to this. Even if it worked as intended it'd still be a completely crappy basically worthless solution. I just can't understand why you'd blow the time and effort into creating such an obviously poor solution rather than invest that time in at the very least matching the expected behavior of modern systems.
Wait what the hell? I was cautiously optimistic about this whole app thing, adopting a "let's wait and see how it turns out" approach as opposed to foaming rage like many others did from the outset. HOWEVER.... This is ridiculous. If, in 2017, your voice chat solution app requires the phone to stay on, meaning you need to disable auto sleep which every single person on the planet has turned on..... That is utterly, utterly mind blowing.
How did Nintendo not look at apps like Discord and follow their lead? Sadly, it's yet more evidence of a "head in the sand" approach to online. They've got some of the best bloody designers and teams in the industry but my god, they're so pig headed it's quite staggering.
How did Nintendo not look at apps like Discord and follow their lead? Sadly, it's yet more evidence of a "head in the sand" approach to online. They've got some of the best bloody designers and teams in the industry but my god, they're so pig headed it's quite staggering.
Stop the shitposts, turn them into feedback:
Then you can shitpost again.
Dude we get it, you've been posting this multiple times in every Switch App related thread
Ghost Slayer
Member
Lmao what a joke Nintendo
IamDodongo
Member
Lol why would they do this?
I thought for sure they would finally have normal online
I thought for sure they would finally have normal online
ShadowFox08
Member
I hope this fails as hard as Wii speak
Dark Cloud
Member
Stop the shitposts, turn them into feedback:
Then you can shitpost again.
I just cursed them out. I can continue to shit on them now.
shanafan
Member
Really should only be one thread related to this anyways. 3 or 4 threads with the same posts in all of them.
Leafhopper
Banned
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
This is an absolute joke. We should not even have to use our phones for online. If you're gonna force people to use this stupid method then at least make it work properly.
Nintendo gonna Nintendo, I suppose.
Nintendo gonna Nintendo, I suppose.
Baroquemantic
Member
Glad to see more articles on this. The worst thing about this idiotic solution they've come up with is not being able to turn the screen off. As far as I know, the display is the biggest drainer of battery on mobile devices, and if you have a device with an OLED display, you risk getting burn-in with static elements on screen.
The app should have only been an option, not the only way to do this. The switch is more than capable of doing all this natively. This also should've been available at launch. Nintendo has had more than a decade to get this shit right.
The app should have only been an option, not the only way to do this. The switch is more than capable of doing all this natively. This also should've been available at launch. Nintendo has had more than a decade to get this shit right.
Lilalaunebaer
Member
Stop the shitposts, turn them into feedback:
Then you can shitpost again.
I already gave them feedback on this on a survey they sent me before it was even officially announced lol.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Honestly, you should ask Nintendo for payment.
Nothing wrong with it, since its relevant to the Topic at hand.
Kremzeek
Member
haha i know right?
that's going to be my solve. this app is an embarrassing headache.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Why? Wouldn't it be better for it to be drastically improved vs failing and leaving us with nothing?
bananafactory
Banned
Stop the shitposts, turn them into feedback:
Then you can shitpost again.
Laughing and ridiculing a dumbass backwards pathetic excuse for online support in 2017 isn't shit posting
Stop the shitposts, turn them into feedback:
Then you can shitpost again.
I don't want to waste my time holding Nintendo's fucking hand anymore.
Everyone told them about this, Reggie heard from the whole press. You waste your own time giving feedback to the void if you want.
Sure, but he already posted about this once in this thread. When you start posting about the same thing multiple times in a thread it gets excessive.
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
I can't understand why you guys need voice chat in splatoon but this is pathetic anyways
Dark Cloud
Member
How would this change if it released in November this year?
Devilgunman
Member
Nintendo had 10 years to catch up with their competitor and this is what they come up with. The app is actually worse than what people speculated when it was announced.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Tying your online communication to a separate device that's constantly getting notifications, texts, and phone calls wasn't a wise idea. And on top of that you can't let it go into sleep mode.
This definitely needs work before they expect people to pay for it. Good thing they're testing it out first.
This definitely needs work before they expect people to pay for it. Good thing they're testing it out first.
ViolentP
Member
I like to think of it like a loaf of bread in the oven...
What in the world Nintendo.....
What a major blunder. I don't get how this happened, even for Nintendo.
Problem is Nintendo didn't add any yeast. Hard to save this one.
What a major blunder. I don't get how this happened, even for Nintendo.
Problem is Nintendo didn't add any yeast. Hard to save this one.