Nintendo’s own approach to voice chat within its online games is well known, requiring a smartphone wirelessly tethered to the console via Wi-Fi using Nintendo’s Switch Online app.

The Nintendo Switch uses a dedicated smartphone app in order to facilitate voice chat, instead of using a built-in program like just about every other modern console.

But I get enough else out of my Nintendo Switch that the lack of voice chat feels like a footnote. A disappointing footnote, but a footnote nonetheless. I'm not playing Destiny on this thing ...

The Nintendo Switch Online app isn’t fully functional yet, but the explanation alone of how its voice chat functionality works has already ticked off Switch owners. The app is the only way to ...

Nintendo tries to explain why Nintendo Switch voice chat works through a mobile app. The explaination is..well, it's something you would expect from Nintendo only. By Sarmad Lillah 2018-10-04 2022 ...

Nintendo Switch's voice chatting is extremely clunky, awkward, and complicated. Here's how it works.

Nintendo has rolled out an update for the Switch Online app that might finally make it usable. See, unlike what Sony and Microsoft did for the PlayStation and the Xbox, Nintendo has chosen to put ...

Opinion: Voice Chat on Nintendo Switch is Messy, But Not a Deal Breaker. While Nintendo should be taken to task for its backwards implementation of voice chat on Switch, consumers have been using ...

Nintendo’s proposed voice chat system for the Switch is all localized on an app, not on the console itself. In other words: For Splatoon 2 trash talking, you’ll have to have your cell phone handy.

Down the line, voice chat for the Nintendo Switch will actually be handled by an upcoming app for smart devices that you will use to connect to your account and your friends, ...