Not until Fall when the app launches. Can't do it natively. It's what I'm getting from all this.
Reggie: Switch matchmaking and lobbies handled through phone app
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You mean the app level integration.
As long as any standard communication features are locked behind a freaking app AND a paywall, "lol nintendo" post are incredibly well deserved.
the site mentions there is a free limited version of the app. so it might not be. I would hope it is still on the console. but we still don't know.
Affeinvasion
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And Nintendo is launching a new system with an eventual paid online mulitplayer service without any online games. Thrilling!
GarthVaderUK
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OK so there's basic multipayer in March, a "limited version" of the app in the Summer, and the full app in the Autumn/Fall when multiplayer goes subscription based.
Nintendo is so unprepared.
Nintendo is so unprepared.
UnemployedVillain
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No, you're most definitely in the minority. Aside from them being tiny when using as full controllers horizontally, I've read no other complaints. Well, except for the lack of dpad
Dark Cloud
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People are thinking if you go to play Mario Kart online, for example, you can't go online and find your friends to create a room to race in?? They think you need this app to do that??
brickarts295
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Local MP it is then.
What a fucking shit show. Why is this console coming out in March?
Affeinvasion
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What online multiplayer games are launching in March?
App launches in the summah
There are online games coming out in the spring and the summah
Dark Cloud
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So, "lol Sony", "lol MS" and "lol Nintendo"?
Super Bomberman R has online multiplayer and it releases on launch with the system.
thats what reggie said.
Tragicomedy
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That's what I wrote several pages ago. Couldn't agree more.
Outside of Nintendo fans, they will struggle to gain market share back from mobile gaming. Requiring people to have their fucking smart phone to fully use the Switch online will not accomplish that. People will cut out the Switch, not their phone.
Isn't Bomberman online enabled?
UnemployedVillain
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Steep fro Ubisoft
You misunderstand. This is about the OS, games do their own matchmaking. Games cannot depend on an app on another device to do this, its a protocol and engineer nightmare because it'd be next to impossible to keep such a configuration synced to the servers.
Games will communicate with their own servers and do their own matchmaking as they always have done.
Dragon Quest Heroes is one.
That's basically what the wording suggests, yes.
You can play against randoms without the app though.
BeforeU
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They have a product for them. Its call Wii U.
ShironRedshift
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Bulky headsets. . If headsets are "bulky" what does that make the Switch itself exactly? Not that the Switch itself really us that bulky either but if headsets are, what's that make the Switch? Such terrible PR speak, when it's so easy to turn it against one of the main selling points of the product you want everyone to buy. What nonsense.
Because Wii U didn't respond to Nintendo's CPR and now it's dead.
Man. The negativity in this thread is overwhelming. I'm not rushing to the defense of a companion app - I'm not that thrilled about it either - but *none* of us have tried it or have any idea what it will be like. I think our time on this forum is better spent talking about how this might become viable and what it could be like; rather than just wishing for an alternate reality where Nintendo decided to do things differently. (That might come off as whining to some people.)
Yes, as paying consumers we have a right to voice our opinions, but... Y'all don't know what you're talking about yet. None of us do. Let's see it in practice.
Yes, as paying consumers we have a right to voice our opinions, but... Y'all don't know what you're talking about yet. None of us do. Let's see it in practice.
They are rushing to get it out in March because that's when Nintendo's fiscal year ends.
Not the full version no
Genghis Khan
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Let me preface this by saying that I'm not really a big online gamer, and I especially don't chat with people when I do play. That being said, and I'm fully aware that this isn't a popular opinion, but I actually like the app idea. Assuming it's on iOS, I have 3 different devices I can use for voice chat. As long as it works well, I'd much rather use my phone than have to buy a new expensive headphones that I don't own.
I dunno. I definitely understand the backlash, but I like the idea.
I dunno. I definitely understand the backlash, but I like the idea.
Skittzo0413
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No, he was referring to system (OS) wide party chat and lobbies. Nintendo's website suggests that's all this app is used for. Inside a game you will use the game's matchmaking software, which may or may not include your friends list.
captain_skyhawk
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What happens if you get a phone call?
Who's going to play online games on the bus?
Are they expecting you to tether to your phone for data?
Who's going to play online games on the bus?
Are they expecting you to tether to your phone for data?
7DollarHagane
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No somehow this is only unacceptable for nintendo.
Has anyone considered that you will still hear voice chat through the speakers you get game audio but your phone can act as a microphone? That seems pretty convenient actually.
Why does Reggie talk about matchmaking then?
Both PSN and xbox have apps that compliment what can be done on the console itself.
It should not be a requirement to need your phone to voice chat. It just shouldn't. That's no convenient or elegant. It's needless.
darkistheway
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Good point. I had forgotten about that. It's just a clusterfuck.
well then how can it be more viable than doing it on the system itself? I just don't understand.
Dark Cloud
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No he's not. This is the misunderstanding. Reggies taking about like a "party chat" that Xbox has where all your friends can talk to each other. Like a Skype or Google Hangout.
Joeshabadoo
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See, and the reason why posters need to continually create replies like this is because of a completely asinine thread title from a poster who should know better. I dont give a shit about whatever phrasing Reggie may have used that happened to omit a couple of words, or give the wrong implication. We are gaf and we know better, or at least we should
he used it as a broad catch-all term, and yea he probably shouldnt have
What Nintendo has said suggests you'll only be able to play with randoms without the app.
You are correct. I forgot about "limited version" wtf does that even mean!
Is the limited app like a beta?
Why would you need to buy any expensive headphone if the earbuds that came with your iPhone would do the job the same way?
Sony bundles a crappy mono earbud with every ps4 and i'm sure that the vast majority of gamers use it.
Dark Cloud
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That's where I'm confused because I thought he's talking about party groups. Idk what to think anymore. Nintendo makes themselves look bad when they don't clarify.
captain_skyhawk
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I'm sorry that actually sounds convoluted and dumb. Most headsets come with a microphone attached why would you want to have one sitting around not close to your face?
Voysa Reezun
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Why keep one of the few things that everyone unanimously agrees was a good thing about the WiiU?
Crazy talk.
So in other words, you can't play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe online with friends until summer.
..Yeah, still terrible.
Browser exploits.
They can't do voice chat unless they set up their own third party thing, and they can't do custom OS-level matchmaking/lobbies.
The Horror the horror
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I'm still getting a Switch, but if there was ever a Nintendo console not to early adopt, it's this one.
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