Bravery, courage, simplicity: Nintendo
Okay this is amazing.
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So this is how Nintendo expects us to use headsets and voice chat on Switch
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Okay this is amazing.
friskykillface
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Bravery, courage, simplicity: Nintendo
Damn that Goro, always winning
Lol great pic
molnizzle
Member
Are you new to competitive online gaming or something?
he is not playing with sound on the headphones on that image, you can see the sound lines on the tv
DrDomVonDoom
Member
The only was this abortion of a set up can be averted is Bluetooth, a headset with either one or two blue tooth connections, one for phone, one for Switch, something has to give. Or at LEAST give us a headset with bluetooth to a phone and all we have to do is plug in the game audio, thats at least bearable. Holy fuck Nintendo, how can you make the most innovative console in a generation and then create something so elegant while boasting about the being mobile fact.
"Hey guize got my headset all set up, lets rock!"
"Hey guize got my headset all set up, lets rock!"
Buggy Loop
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I play with headphones at home so often, to not bother my girlfriend with so many fucking annoying repeating game sounds (which makes sense when you play, but for outside peoples, is freaking annoying).
That's the scenario.
Exactly lol . Those ppl were waiting to hear news like this to say Nintendo lost haha
Predicting Nintendo will screw something simple up isn't something to be proud of. It is a given. We know it is going to happen.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
this is beyond stupid. what the fuck.
No, not really. but I'd have loved to hear why you thought that, if it weren't so predictable.
No, not really. but I'd have loved to hear why you thought that, if it weren't so predictable.
I don't really understand people who get off on video game companies making mistakes. Why does it bring people joy? People are fuckin' weird - namely gamers.
th3sicknness
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I doubt this had anything to do with nintendo being apprehensive about voice chat. It has everything to do with monetizing every aspect of the switch.
molnizzle
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Also so your teammates don't have to hear the echo from your TV noises going through your mic into their ears because you're an asshole.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Okay? this is still so backwards and ridiculous (hilarious)
I thought the entire point of having the "phone app" was so that you don't have to plug your headset directly into the Switch
oh my god i didn't think of this either.
We're in Dongle fucking City, now.
SocksAndShoes
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Jesus christ.
I own every Nintendo console and have since 1985.
This is a dumb, stupid thing. We can leave the fanboy nonsense out of it.
boiled goose
good with gravy
RandomExpletive
Member
Yikes
Deep in my heart I hope they fix this, either before or after launch
But they won't... and that sucks
I guess our best chance of a change is the press really grilling Nintendo on this
Deep in my heart I hope they fix this, either before or after launch
But they won't... and that sucks
I guess our best chance of a change is the press really grilling Nintendo on this
I love my Switch. It doesn't change the fact that every decision they have made regarding online play or anything related to online play (voice chat) for the last decade has been shortsighted, idiotic, or needlessly complicated.
I'd say it has more to do with Nintendo caring way more about local play and not giving a shit about online play (when they really should).
I respect their devotion to local multiplayer, but it shouldn't be at the cost of online in 2017.
It makes there system/egos feel superior, because they hold self worth in games
Just explaining what he meant as several of you misunderstood his statement. That is all.
Uh.. yeah... it's the other people who are finding their self worth in video games.
molnizzle
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ah, so that's why Nintendo fans blindly defend the boneheaded, utterly incompetent decisions the company has been making for decades now.
BigEmil
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2 gens before that had voice chat natively, that's bs
No but it's the switch.
So why the wire to the switch?
Fair enough, some scenarios really are going to suck.
THANK you
DrROBschiz
Member
Thank you!
Im in the same boat
Love the system
Absolutely hate how they are handling voice chat
Abhorrent... the whole setup should be shouted down
Both arguments are idiotic.
Want to protect children? Add parental options like Microsoft did on Xbox, I'm pretty sure they've had that feature for multiple generations.
I'm literally looking at the pictures and just thinking this setup is sad as hell. I have no idea how Nintendo even thinks this is a good solution, and I'm surprised that fans of Nintendo will even defend this. It's like Sony fans defending the lack of EA access on their service, or Microsoft fans defending the closure of first party studios.
Console makers fuck up. But you gotta speak up so they can correct it, or at least correct it for future consoles.
Jubenhimer
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Ehh, this is a Hori accessory, so it's not something Nintendo has in mind. I'll wait until Nintendo shows how this app is actually supposed to be used because we still haven't seen what it's supposed to do yet. Remember, this isn't Nintendo's solution to Voice chat, this is Hori's.
A better way to do this peripheral system in my opinion would have been to have the connection between the headset itself and the mixer unit thing be wireless. That way you could at least just connect your switch to the phone and the phone the the mixer and leave them together on your console while playing in docked mode while still being able to sit a decent distance away on the sofa without wires trailing all over you. It's the fact that there's going to be wires running all over the room with this system which I don't like.
It's such a bizarre system that I feel there must be something we're missing here, a more simple way of doing voice chat, some kind of simple ear bud which just hooks into your phone at least if you don't want a full headset on. I cannot believe that this is the only way it can possibly work. If that is the case then... Well that's staggering. Will need to wait till next week to find out for sure though.
It's such a bizarre system that I feel there must be something we're missing here, a more simple way of doing voice chat, some kind of simple ear bud which just hooks into your phone at least if you don't want a full headset on. I cannot believe that this is the only way it can possibly work. If that is the case then... Well that's staggering. Will need to wait till next week to find out for sure though.
because it's a stupid picture
FTFY.
Guys, fucking stop with the Nintendo Fans thing. :lol
There is plenty of Switch owners here that think this is the dumbest decision.
Nintendo is just protecting their brand. I don't see what the problem is.
I never said this was smart. This is the dumbest shit for voice chat, I mean no Bluetooth head set compatible. Even still that does not make the console suck or doom, as what other ppl are progressing to say. Hell we got e3 in 2 weeks to start a riot if so. Either way this does not make my purchase of a Switch bad, I will still be enjoying it when games comes out
But replies like that only singinifies what I just said, nothing I said had anything to do with fanboyish, it was stated that ppl overreact to the upmost when it comes to Nintendo
Huge Succeeded
Banned
For the love of Christ, please. Shit is fucking pervasive and tired. I've called it out in loads of threads. Y'all just can't fucking help yourselves.
ViolentP
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That would be like me protecting my food from thieves by covering it in shit.
Shouldn't be too hard to make a mixer of this sort, and I suspect third parties will sell it. Its a pretty straightforward two-channel sound pass over a wireless channel.
Grow up. Learn the difference between fans and blockheaded console warriors, and why its bad to generalize.
No, no one is defending the design. Other people have just turned this into a "lol Nintendo is shit" thread so people are defending Nintendo in general, especially since the Switch is pretty damn awesome..until this.
DrROBschiz
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FantasticMrFoxdie
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sorry. lol wasn't really directed at anyone.
just frustrated at what the hell is going on with this.
Why do you only quote that part of my post?
DrDomVonDoom
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Lets be clear. Nintendo fans myself included are not happy with this, and I have seen a small minority of people defending this shit. Stop making this into a nintendo fanboys are idiots dialogue, I've been tweeting NOA on twitter all morning and send a email, asking just what the fuck they are thinking. People need to reach out to Nintendo and tell them they need a better solution, open up the blue tooth, its more important then an 8th controller connected to the system.
Skittzo0413
Member
So, you can't? He's trying to come up with the reasoning, and he does a very poor job of it in my opinion, but that's not defending this. At all.
No. Nobody is actually defending this.
Gai Murakumo
Member
Wow that is just, wow. Who at Nintendo thought that was good idea?
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