"Fortnite on Switch supports party voice through the headphone jack." - Epic

[BlackJace]

LOL

 

[0ptimusPayne]

Pretty sure this was known for a while. Basically the Switch can output voice chat without the stupid phone shit, but Nintendo insists on pushing their shitty phone app.

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Judging by a lot of reactions, I'm assuming some of us had no clue lol. I never bothered with the chat, because I thought I needed the phone setup.

 

[Kaelan]

LOL.

 

[Dama]

Lol

 

[Legacy]

Wait, it was actually possible this whole time? Why the hell didn't Nintendo incorporate this into Splatoon?

I thought we'd need the online service revamp in order for voice chat to work without any gimicks

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

 

[justiceiro]

This means nothing. The problem is providing this with a built-in background app, not bult in the software itself.

 

[Deleted member 13370]

Hahahaha
Nintendo what are you doing
This is amazing

 

[Miggy]

Well then.

 

[skyappl]

Oh, so the headphone jack does support audio input. That's great.

 

[Knight in Shining Armani]

Remember when people were actually defending this, talking about technical aspects and what not.

Nintendo being Nintendo.

 

[Mbolibombo]

Wasnt there an offical headset revealed some weeks ago with this functionality availible?

 

[NameUser]

So the fuck is Nintendo doing with their games? LMAO.

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Being obtuse because that's what they do sometimes.

 

[Thrill_house]

What about for pro controller? I have big hands and the joycons are so damn tiny

 

[Zelas]

This better roll out to everything Nintendo.

 

[AndrewDean84]

I wouldn't play Fortnite on Switch regardless.

But just thinking about playing in handheld with those joycons gives me carpel tunnel. Awful experience.

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My hands cramped for the first 20 hours of Zelda, but my hands adjusted since then and I no longer feel the hand cramps. This has been the case for me with every single handheld. Always hurts at the the start, then my hands get used to them. PSP might have taken me the longest.

 

[Notaskwid]

Yamauchi is turning on his grave

 

[Xenoblade 3]

Nintendo really doesnt want people screaming and cursing in Mario Kart and Splatoon I guess lol

 

[NameUser]

Remember when people were actually defending this, talking about technical aspects and what not.

Nintendo being Nintendo.

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It's why I stopped going to the Reddit sub. "But it doesn't matter that the PSP could do voice chat! You don't know what's going on under the Switch's hood!"

 

[RobotVM]

So I wonder if the wireless headsets will work. Like the PS Gold headset. I know you can use them to hear your games while in docked mode.

 

[Maxina]

Was trying to find the one article explaining the Switch's voice chat functionality, but couldn't find it, only found this one: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/08/29/switch-doesnt-need-a-smartphone-app-for-voice-chat

But yeah, It can support voice chat without the app, but Nintendo doesn't want too.

 

[Casual]

My hands cramped for the first 20 hours of Zelda, but my hands adjusted since then and I no longer feel the hand cramps. This has been the case for me with every single handheld. Always hurts at the the start, then my hands get used to them. PSP might have taken me the longest.

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Yeah, but why would I spend time adjusting when I could just use the vastly superior pro controller?

 

[Demolition_Human]

Remember when people were actually defending this, talking about technical aspects and what not.

Nintendo being Nintendo.

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Pretty much. Nintendo is doing too much for a problem that isn't even a problem.

 

[Charizard]

...why dont other 3rdParty titles use that function ? Is that something that was added recently ?

I can see why Nintendo would force you to use the stupid app....but other devs ?

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Splatoon 2 lets you do it when doing LAN matches but not in online matches so it's been there for a long time, if not since launch. Nintendo just doesn't use it outside of LAN cuz fuck you that's why :P

 

[Fosko]

So why do we have to use that shitty app to have chat in splatoon 2? Which will be part of a paid service.

Lol

 

[Nilaul]

Just give me gyro controls now.

 

[JC Lately]

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That was fast

 

[Figments]

It's why I stopped going to the Reddit sub. "But it doesn't matter that the PSP could do voice chat! You don't know what's going on under the Switch's hood!"

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That happens literally every time the issue is brought up, both here and on the old forum.

 

[cardboardboxer]

I hope my wireless USB headset will work in docked mode. It works for just audio.

 

[Deleted member 41931]

Nintendo is it's own worse enemy.

 

[GaussTek]

Has anyone tried this yet? I can't get it working... I don't have a headset with mic, but tried the PS4 Earbud which has a mic (should be the same, right?), and I can't use it when on squad.

The controls say "> for Squad voice chat", but everytime I press it, it just brings another menu and I can't edit it. What's the correct button? lol

 

[Prattle]

What's the best way to get Psyonix to do the same for Rocket League ?!

 

[Schwarzenegger]

So why we need the phone app?

Why splatoon 2 does not include voice chat in game?

Cmon Nintendo.

 

[IcyInferno]

Maybe other 3rd parties can now implement this feature to use the headphone jack for voice chat and maybe even push Nintendo to add Bluetooth headset support. Being able to play a gory M rated Doom multiplayer match but not able to trash talk with others is silly. Thank you Epic for forcing Nintendo's hand.

I don't think Nintendo will budge with making the Nintendo switch online app optional for voice chat for their own 1st party games but at least giving 3rd party developers more feature parity with other consoles is a step in the right direction. Still waiting on OS-level party chat and messaging.

 

[TheZynster]

Nintendo forcing the shitty phone app on everyone

 

[Medalion]

Voice Chat must not be natively built into the Switch, so it has to be software programmed per game

 

[Amiablepercy]

How did this cool Fortnite thread turn into a shitting on Nintendo thread. I mean... every fricking time.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Splatoon 2 lets you do it when doing LAN matches but not in online matches so it's been there for a long time, if not since launch. Nintendo just doesn't use it outside of LAN cuz fuck you that's why :P

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I know about the Splatoon 2 LAN support ....just wondering why no other dev or software used it before the way Epic is now ?

 

[Khanimus]

L
O
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[Hydrus]

Just fucking swallow your damn pride Nintendo and hire an outside party to handle your online stuff since clearly you can't do it.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Feel like I just got RickRolled

 

[Notaskwid]

How did this cool Fortnite thread turn into a shitting on Nintendo thread. I mean... every fricking time.

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I think you know why.

 

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[boris_feinbrand]

This means nothing. The problem is providing this with a built-in background app, not bult in the software itself.

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Seriously, just stop making excuses. Voice chat is trivial in terms of resources. There is no technical reason they don't support it on a system level. Just their brain-dead policy to push it onto a phone app.

 

[Pikachu]

How is this useful in docked mode though

None of the controllers have headphone jack

 

[MattB]

USB doesn't work for me

 

[Khanimus]

How did this cool Fortnite thread turn into a shitting on Nintendo thread. I mean... every fricking time.

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Almost like they made themselves a target for mockery when they thought this was a good idea:

 

[Radd Redd]

Wow. Nintendo. Wow.

 

[Smiles]

oh okay

 

[KingSnake]

And there goes blowing out the window and reasonable excuse for Nintendo's stupid chat solution.

I hope they have the common sense to at least not charge for online for 3rd party games that make an effort to actually provide decent online services.