 Well, this was not the video I planned to make this morning There was a lot of interesting news that hit over the weekend But before I get a video done on that stuff, which I'm sure some of you guys already know about Some breaking news happened it really as I was in the middle of recording and I guess that's not really breaking news It's more of a discovery that surprisingly I didn't even know about and I'm betting you didn't know about either so Splatoon 2 has local built-in voice chat when you're playing over land, you know local area network so right now it only works in Salmon Run and Here's what the here's what? Peter Cobra had to say about it on neogaf where I found it It said so this isn't about normal wireless play It's the one where you're all connected to the same router and you press a button combination I think it's L plus R plus less stick then use the router in a LAN configuration This is much more stable than just wirelessly interconnected switches, which is true Well, the switch has a solid connection when you're interconnecting interconnecting them if you all connect through a central hub It works a lot better And he says which is why we did it last week for our Splatoon game in a pub One of us had a microphone on his headphones and the second we switched to the LAN lobby We heard what he was saying very loudly in our speakers was quite a shock really This means they implemented seamless voice chat no app required But allowed using it only for land play not even normal local wireless You know, so it okay. Anyways, I'll get into that in a moment Which frankly is probably the least useful scenario for voice chat since you're probably all in the same room anyways Edit hopefully someone is going to double check and maybe even properly test this before I try it again If you are here are some tips for going to the LAN lobby Go to the local multiplayer lobby, which is the shoal press and hold the combination of buttons L plus R Plus less stick for a few seconds until the game fades out of the lobby It then fades back into the same lobby, but in a LAN setup Obviously, you'll all need to be on the same local network which means all of you are connected to the same router or Wi-Fi hotspots and There's also a link provided to The support website which explains how to get a LAN thing going So there's like official support to show you how to do LAN stuff first between two because it's not very obvious button combinations and all that But this is very interesting to me It is almost the least useful situation to have voice chat locally on a system Because it's literally only when you're in a LAN situation now I think the idea of including the localized voice chat in the game in a LAN situation Would be for things like competitive multiplayer tournaments You know pro players, but it only works in salmon run Which are salmon run, you know, whatever you guys can yell at me for my pronunciation of salmon if you want it's It's weird when I think about That's the situation. It's useful and It's used in that because everyone's on the same team no matter what So the game obviously doesn't have the ability, you know local chat wise to tell when you're on different teams only let you chat You know, so it's a very rudimentary setup is what it sounds like And the fact that it only works in LAN It doesn't even work in wirelessly connecting your your switches together directly It just really weird doesn't work in that way, but this is this brings up the old conversation on voice chat on the switch and It's something I haven't touched on in a while because I didn't feel like there was anything there was no new information Right, we don't know what was gonna happen once the online service is launched But this is the first time In the entire Conversation of voice chat on switch that we have definitive evidence that the switch has the capability For localized voice chat on the system it can do it because here's an example a real-world example in Splatoon 2 of Local voice chat on the switch working. No app required. That is something that Clearly wasn't designed out of the system if that makes sense It means it was something that was at least thought of at one point And it's very interesting Because we've been told for a long time that the app is is the only way to voice chat Well, clearly that's not true and we were told that the app is the only way The reason they're using the app is because it makes more sense it takes processing power away from the switch And yeah, yeah, yeah, here's an example of localized voice chat over a local area network in Splatoon 2 again, it doesn't work in 4v4 Because it doesn't know how to separate the teams so like you could chat in the lobby But it doesn't when once you split off in the teams you kind of lose the chatting ability Because again, it doesn't know how to it doesn't know how to split you up So like you can hear all the other teams chattering and yelling and hooting hollering and all that stuff This is just a really interesting thing to me Because I've been an advocate of localized voice chat on switch really from day one I don't mind the app as an option Unfortunately, it's a bad option right now because the voice chat on the app itself isn't very good You literally do anything else on your phone and you're kicked out of voice chat It's not a very Elegant solution. I've had some people reporting issues getting certain headsets to work with their With their phone and I've heard decrease in audio quality And obviously, you know if you're on Wi-Fi or not a Wi-Fi is really gonna affect quality as well What kind of phone you have what kind of hardware it's rocking those are a lot of different factors that can come into effect for You know Talking over a phone plus I've had that there's so many different devices out there In comparison to the switch which everyone switches exactly the same right now You know, maybe you have different color joy con Maybe you have cases on it, but the base hardware is exactly the same And it just made sense to me that you should have local voice chat on the switch itself Every other voice chat solution in the world is localized to the device, right? You want a voice chat on your pc? You do it through your pc You want a voice chat on your xbox or your playstation 4 or even the 3ds for crying out loud? You do it on the system on the we you you do it on the system So nintendo was that this is the first time that a company's like hey look We're gonna have a device out there, but you don't actually use that to voice chat So no the switch doesn't have voice chat. Our app has voice chat. Um, it's It's a very strange thing and plus the obviously we all know the app has a very poor version of voice chat as it is So I'm just I'm flabbergasted that uh this exists Because I thought nintendo would be all in on the app at all times and maybe this is not something they intended Maybe it's something and a developer slipped in Uh, and nintendo is going to cut it out. In fact, I'd be very curious And people on that local area network chatting through that Can they also chat through the lobby system on their phone and have literally the exact same voice chat happening On two different two different ways of coming through your tv Or coming through your switch and coming through your phone It's something i'm really curious For more testing to be done, but this is uh This is I guess it's good news. It means that All the excuses about the switch not being able to do it it not being purpose built for it It you know, whatever is a bunch of bollocks Uh Granted the situation they're talking about is obviously where you have the the headphone jack available But it's still man This is What I want I want the switch to have localized voice chat I think the app is a really cool interesting idea needs to be fleshed out more But I love the idea of voice chat localized on switch. I always have it's the most elegant solution for voice chat I think it's a solution that would make third parties happy It would make nintendo fans happy and if you still want to have voice chat on the app That's fine. Like I think the app should exist for situations where Uh, there's some really cool idea here. Here's an idea nintendo that you could use voice chat with on the app While still having it localized on switch So you have your localized voice chat But on the app you should be able to connect to a friend lobby When you don't have your switch on you and be able to chat with your friends while they're playing in fact I should be able to through the app be able to see a stream of my friends matches as i'm talking to them I think that would be really really cool Almost like a twitch kind of thing With me being able to directly talk to my friends in a lobby And that's not even like there's no friend lobby for chatting or anything. You only can chat in the games And I feel like the the phone app could really expand on all of that and add additional functionality That yeah, you could argue should be on the switch But generally if you're on your switch you're playing games So it makes some sense to separate that out for the phone app But yeah, I'm I'm excited by the prospects here and I'm hoping that Uh, this is a sign That nintendo is willing Someday to put voice chat back on the system And maybe this was a fail safe in case everyone was just repulsed by voice chat on the app And third parties were repulsed by it. Uh, the nintendo is like look look it's okay We actually implemented the ability for it to exist And as for people who don't want to run run a court across their living room from the headphone jack on the switch itself I get you. Um, there are bluetooth wireless hub receivers Also, technically the switch has bluetooth in it. It just needs to be enabled to allow headsets to connect to it And that's literally a firmware update will do that nintendo just has to turn the setting on So the switch already has the capability to do that Anyways folks, I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz from nintendo prime And if you like this video, you know what to do And if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and as always folks I will catch you in the next one