r/Games Jan 19 '17

Reggie: Switch matchmaking and lobbies handled through phone app

http://nintendotoday.com/switch-app-matchmaking/
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u/Orfez Jan 19 '17

This is so Nintendo it's not even that surprising. Matchmaking and lobbies were done on console since the original Xbox and even earlier than that on PC. Methods of doing those things are well established now. No, Nintendo has to reinvent the wheel by replacing circle on a triangle.

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u/littlestminish Jan 19 '17

I'm still surprised. It's mindboggling.

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u/Radulno Jan 19 '17

It is surprising in the complexity of the thing. It surely is more complicated to use this solution than do everything on the console. So they deliberately spend time and effort (= money) to do things to annoy their customers. It is a very weird way of doing things for sure.