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Reggie: Switch matchmaking and lobbies handled through phone app
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The only way I can see this even remotely (hah) working is: Once synched up with your smartphone, the app functionalities can be accessed on your Switch so you don't actually have to physically use your phone to do matchmaking and stuff. You'd still have to have your phone sitting nearby to serve as a mic, though.
Even THEN, this would be silly.
Even THEN, this would be silly.
WOW!
I wasn't even fucking serious!
How has this company made it this far?!
Edit: THAT ARTICLE IS FROM 3 FUCKING YEARS AGO!!! AND THEY STILL DIDN'T LEARN!!!! HOW?!
Stiler
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lmao, so anyone that doesn't have a smartphone or doesn't have one handy when they are playing is SOL and can't play online or anything?
AND you have to pay nintendo money to simply use it on top of this?
Nintendo needs to learn the Kiss rule.
Keep it simple stupid.
It makes absolutely no sense to require users to have to whip out a phone to use multiplayer on a game system. It's just red tape and another hoop to go through that isn't needed at all.
Now having this on TOP of it? Sure, if people want the added use of their phone for whatever, but requiring it? Absolutely stupid decision imo.
AND you have to pay nintendo money to simply use it on top of this?
Nintendo needs to learn the Kiss rule.
Keep it simple stupid.
It makes absolutely no sense to require users to have to whip out a phone to use multiplayer on a game system. It's just red tape and another hoop to go through that isn't needed at all.
Now having this on TOP of it? Sure, if people want the added use of their phone for whatever, but requiring it? Absolutely stupid decision imo.
I don't need to know how it works to know that I don't want to have to use my phone for anything while I'm playing.
welp
Software handles its own matchmaking, always has for Nintendo. This is about the Switch's OS doing... much of anything.
Possibly, instead they may be outsourcing the app creation. Speaking of dimes, those companies are a dime a dozen.
JaseMath
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No. Way. Nintendo really does operate in a bubble...
Chittagong
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Hahaha, oh wow. I guess that now that they abolished region locking they needed some cumbersome weird thing to scratch that 'fuck with the users itch'
Nintendo truly is living in their own world
BumbleBee Castle
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You and me both man. 😿
I wish but Wii U's most sold games include stuff like Mario Maker, Splatoon, Mario Kart & Smash that all put online functions at the front and center.
We need more information. This whole explanation is a mess and they seriously can't go through with it the way I'm imaging in my head right now. Whatever it is they'd better explain it in detail sooner rather than later.
Garrett Hawke
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To be fair, that article is from 2012.
so they probably haven't taken anything on board lmao
And now I understand.
How does a company expect to compete when they have no idea what their competition is doing at all.
Hahahahaha this is Nintendo. Not. A. Fucking. Chance.
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It's a good way to shove their mobile games into your face though
No different than Sony and Xbox... Only you don't NEED the app.
You have to use Switch to connect to your phone via wifi, which is a means to connect to the internet, to connect to the internet so your phone can transfer information from the internet to your Switch.
My braaaain hurrrrts
How is it protecting children in any way though? Phones have access to the internet as well and there are a lot worse things than foul language on the interwebz yaknow. It would be up to the parents to set up parental controls through the Switch App and through the Android/iOS settings, the latter which unfortunately a very large percentage of parents neglect to do. So I don't really see how it's protecting children, ethically or monetarily since again they also just announced a F2P game with IAP that's on smartphones, the same device their Switch app happens to be on.
Doesn't make much sense to me, tbh.
Outside of voice chat and party chat, Wii U's online was perfectly servicable. I refuse to believe the Switch has zero online functionality built in. Not even a friends list or anything?
This all has to come down to Japan still not saying everything and Reggie trying to spin what is already gone public.
This all has to come down to Japan still not saying everything and Reggie trying to spin what is already gone public.
I haven't combed through all 20 pages of this thread but does anybody think this might be why all the controllers have An NFC reader built in. It might be that your phone will need NFC (which most or not all recent phones have) to work with your phone for accepting invites or what have you. I really Hoping they didn't build NFC in all of their controllers JUST for amiibo.
Dash_Riprock
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LOL at the people who keep saying "Wait and see! Wait and see!"
Did we need to wait and see when MS announced their DRM? Did we need to wait and see when Sony priced the PS3 at $599?
Sometimes a stupid idea is a stupid idea no matter how far away it is. Why some people think only Nintendo deserves the benefit of the doubt after the epic fail that was the Wii U is beyond me.
They keep expecting to make another Wii or DS, not realizing that those were lightning-in-a-bottle moments that are not likely to be repeated anytime soon.
Did we need to wait and see when MS announced their DRM? Did we need to wait and see when Sony priced the PS3 at $599?
Sometimes a stupid idea is a stupid idea no matter how far away it is. Why some people think only Nintendo deserves the benefit of the doubt after the epic fail that was the Wii U is beyond me.
They keep expecting to make another Wii or DS, not realizing that those were lightning-in-a-bottle moments that are not likely to be repeated anytime soon.
Not chat or messaging though, you could only do that on Wii U. On 3DS you could read and post and that was it.
DeuceGamer
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I rarely use online but even I acknowedge tis is just ridiculous. Even if I don't use it the negative press alone is severly damaging to the Switch brand IMO.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 Plus 3 countries as far at launch this is going to be a blast to watch unfold.
Rip Windows Phone, Blackberry 10 loool users though.
Perfect.
7DollarHagane
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I don't trust that Reggie understands matchmaking in the sense of joining a match with random people.
It's also too fucking bizarre to think that if I boot up Splatoon 2, I can't just join a match without doing something on my phone. I really don't think that's what is being said here. It can't be.
It must be referring to a custom game with friends or sending invites and that being handled through the app isn't so bad. I'm OK with that. There must be some kind of basic functionality where you get an invite and accept it to join the game on the device itself.
It's also too fucking bizarre to think that if I boot up Splatoon 2, I can't just join a match without doing something on my phone. I really don't think that's what is being said here. It can't be.
It must be referring to a custom game with friends or sending invites and that being handled through the app isn't so bad. I'm OK with that. There must be some kind of basic functionality where you get an invite and accept it to join the game on the device itself.
thsi is what I'm htinking. There's no way I'm going to have to have my phone right by me every time I do a random Turf War in Splatoon 2, or look for a random lobby in MK8 Deluxe... right? Right?
why they brought this on themselves. its not like someone made them make these types of decisions.
I don't believe this at all. I think Reggie just misspoke, especially since we still don't have any confirmation that voice chat, matchmaking etc. won't be available on the Switch itself.
The console apparently can support a headphone+mic combo, and what about games like Mario Kart, which are being released before the full online service, around September or later?
We need clarification on this quickly, maybe with another Direct, and ideally now. Even if it's just a brief set of definite features and services.
But damn, so many people are jumping to conclusions based on an interview...
The console apparently can support a headphone+mic combo, and what about games like Mario Kart, which are being released before the full online service, around September or later?
We need clarification on this quickly, maybe with another Direct, and ideally now. Even if it's just a brief set of definite features and services.
But damn, so many people are jumping to conclusions based on an interview...
Tragicomedy
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Nintendo is trying really hard to keep me from buying this system. Is this for real?
I have a hint for you Reggie: an elegant solution for the general public isn't to force them to use a smart phone app for online functionality. That's asinine.
Yes, they will already have our phones on them. But I'm more inclined to believe they'll cut the middle man out (in this case, that's YOU, Nintendo), and just enjoy mobile games on their phones. You can't sell people on complicated outsourcing solutions.
I have a hint for you Reggie: an elegant solution for the general public isn't to force them to use a smart phone app for online functionality. That's asinine.
Yes, they will already have our phones on them. But I'm more inclined to believe they'll cut the middle man out (in this case, that's YOU, Nintendo), and just enjoy mobile games on their phones. You can't sell people on complicated outsourcing solutions.
Outtrigger888
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there's no way basic match making is done through a phone. Let's wait and see.
//DEVIL//
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How can these guys be so out of touch and so stupid at the same time ? I mean why the media sites don't just tell him in his face while they are being interviewed and say ( are you stupid ?)
I mean seriously. What the hell people in Japan do ? They are so out of date and tough it's like they just are discovering mobile ?
Good thing this is a secondary or even third ? Platform and not a main. Nintendo stopped being main platform since 15 years for me
I mean seriously. What the hell people in Japan do ? They are so out of date and tough it's like they just are discovering mobile ?
Good thing this is a secondary or even third ? Platform and not a main. Nintendo stopped being main platform since 15 years for me
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Reggie already said its monthly/yearly fee.. truly
I think a lot of the "Well it's not a problem for me" posts are missing the point. I own a Wii U and I think that it's a perfectly functional (if clunky) system. Do you know what would have made it even better? If people had actually wanted to buy the damn thing.
It's looking like it will a good single player system. But online looks like a mess and local co-op (which should be their strength) isn't looking too hot either.
A lot of their moves only make sense when viewed through a lens that filters out most of the products that aren't their own.
Jesus
I bet it's this if so he mis spoke really bad he should have said with friends right after the matchmaking word.
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