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[Thoughts] The Nintendo Switch Online App Should Have Direct Messages


There have been many times that I wished this was a feature of the app

source: www.nintendo.com

At the moment the Nintendo Switch Online app really needs an upgrade. Nintendo want you to use this to communicate with friends you make on switch, but they made it very hard to do so. The only form of chat you can do is a voice chat, which is something not everyone is comfortable with. This is especially the case when it's the first real interaction you will have with the other person. What's even worse is the voice chat thing is limited to specific games. Reports have also been made on how bad the chat is with it constantly dropping in and out. This makes this only way of communication pretty useless.

If the Nintendo Switch Online app had some type of direct message system, something akin to discord, then this issue could be solved instantly. To make it safe, they could make it so image attachment options are not available. As well as this, the option to receive messages should be given in the settings. This is so that children can be safe. There could also be another setting in the parental controls too, to further safeguard children. The addition of direct messages would actually give people a big reason to use the app. While people would still just use discord over it in the long term, it allows it to act as a stepping stone to allow people to share their social medias and such.

I wanted to talk about this because I have met many people on my switch over the years and since there has been no way to communicate with them, a friendship just can't develop. People have gotten creative by writing their twitters in Splatoon private battles with ink, but it is quite hard to do this and is frankly ridiculous that we have to do it. I am really hoping with the next Nintendo system we get a new app or an update to this one that addresses this issue amongst others.

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