 Hey everyone, so today I was going to give you a recap of day two of E3 for Nintendo And surely there was some exciting things with the polken tournament wrapping up the arms tournament Which by the way the arms tournament had a fantastic finish not nearly as exciting as the Splatoon 2 tournament yesterday, but whatever We even got a glimpse at the Breath of the Wild DLC today, which was really sweet You know, there was some good stuff, but to me all of this pales in comparison to what I actually am going to talk about So I do apologize for not doing the two video promise the news recap or even a single video They had a news recap combined with some opinions and feedback for today Because what I'm about to talk about now I think is even more important and no it does not actually come from E3 But it deals with the Nintendo switch and in specific how the Nintendo switch is going to handle lobbies and Maybe what the online app is called? so some folks over at NeoGaF realized or uncovered that the Nintendo operating system on Switch already has implementations for Lobbies and the app and all that great stuff. So here's the general breakdown Here's exactly what NeoGaF user E3s said about the Nintendo switch online lounge By fiddling around with the switch It's been discovered that the lobby function is are ever the implemented in the switch OS at least to some degree It seems to be done through a web applet that makes requests to HTTP basically web-lp1.znc.srv.nintendo.net Lobby Looks like the name of the app will be called the Nintendo switch online lounge and yes There's actually a typo in the logo right now Also, the following message was found on the source code of the page Your room has been created you can invite friends to the room via the Nintendo switch online lounge app Some additional strings pass underscore code says that it is code for friends to join the room without an invitation Allow underscore friend underscore to underscore join It allows Nintendo switch friends to join the room using a code Available underscore free you can use the the pre-release version of the service for free service underscore name Nintendo switch online lounge Let's underscore invite invite friends and enjoy voice chat while gaming all via your smart device Need underscore to underscore play the Nintendo switch online lounge app is required to use this feature Send underscore notification send notification to my smart device join underscore success You can use voice chat from the Nintendo switch online lounge app and create underscore room underscore excess your room has been Created the logo was extracted from the web LP 1.znz.srv.nintendo.net Blah blah blah blah some really long URL that ends up in Ico underscore lounge Dot SVG Nintendo net notably is the official domain of the company for uses for their network as an example Meverse.Nintendo.net. It looks like the app is 100% needed for lobbies and chat They also found a QR code that links to lounge dot Nintendo calm, but obviously that website is not up yet So what does this all mean? The breakdown getting away from the technical is that this just confirms that the app is needed for lobbies and chat That literally nothing you do on your switch will be able to manage lobbies and voice chat And that means that yes to play online with your friends in a lobby or with voice chat You have to use the app now. We've known for a while the app is needed for voice chat, right? Nintendo has stayed on that company line and some people were hoping maybe it was just an option, but that's not the case so Essentially for those that were hoping that the app wasn't going to be required to make lobbies and do online voice chat Well, your dreams are crushed It is already implemented on the system in the OS that it cannot handle it All it does is send requests that are then sent out to the app where the app manages all of the various requests so yeah essentially the app is Called the Nintendo switch online lounge trademarked well throw up the logo here that has the the Nintendo switch the the typo in it Again, this is all from like this isn't fan-made this all is verifiable And you can find it through the web applet and obviously the web applet is not something that's supposed to be publicly accessible But people have found ways to get to the web applet On the switch for a while now and that's why how we people are figuring out like oh there is going to be like oh You know the ability to search the internet and have a web browser on the switch someday Because the framework for that's already there because there's already games that use online That are using the online framework to to make things happen like Mario Kart 8 deluxe and obviously upcoming arms here on Friday So long story short We now know It's called the Nintendo switch online lounge and you have to use that app for all lobbies and voice chat Yeah app is required folks. I'm sure you can still go on your switch and just play with random people Without being in a lobby, but you won't be able to chat with them this You could take this news like you won't anyway you want I obviously don't view this as good stuff It's about what I expected to happen and it's what I hoped wasn't going to happen But lobbies and voice chat are handled exclusively through the Nintendo switch app For your smart device So if you don't have a smart device if you use an old flip-flown You would need to upgrade if you plan to use online lobbies and voice chat on the switch So even if you pay for the service, you still need a secondary device See this is this is why I've had a problem with this approach by Nintendo the whole time It's not that I don't appreciate taking some of the processing away from the switch Throwing it on the phone and letting the phone and all that network handle all the processing for this And even if they can fix the ridiculous way that Splatoon 2 is handling voice chat right now. That's fine. Great. Whatever But the fact remains that I pay for an online premium service to use on my Nintendo switch That requires that I have a secondary device that costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars I mean my iPhone 6s plus when the day it came out was a thousand dollars So it required no grant I didn't have to get the thousand other version But even the cheapest version was like 600 and I know you can get other smart devices cheaper But but whatever the point I'm saying is that it costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars to have a secondary device Which I realized that like 64 percent of the United States has or 68 percent of the United States has a smart device But it's still one of those things where I hate the idea I have to have that device to do things on my switch, you know there's times I like to leave my phone plug in upstairs in my bedroom and Let it charge The fact that I have to do all the stuff through my phone is just another thing that's draining battery on my phone Especially when I'm playing docked mode where my switch is constantly powered and it makes a lot more sense for my switch To handle it in that now I feel like there's a potential I might have four cords running your voice chat You know you have the cord running over to the switch while I'm docked I had the cord running into the phone I have obviously the headphone cord running into the dongle for Splatoon 2 and then I have another cord plugged in behind me to power my phone So it doesn't die or have a bunch of battery drain while I play Hours upon hours of whatever multiplayer game at that time Even if it's not a multiplayer game say I'm just playing the Breath of the Wild with a bunch of people and like I say with them not in the same game But we're just all playing and having fun and we just want to be in a lobby together and chat it It just seems silly and the reason that it feels silly Especially for like a voice chat is because I'm paying for access to the service when I if I have to use my phone for it I can easily use this card or Skype or any number of programs I could just fire up an actual phone call and just bring other people into that phone call for no extra fee It's just one of those things that that feels a little off to me Now I understand that you know lobbies and all that stuff. That's great. I'm not even upset at the price of Nintendo's online I know it's cheap $20 a year not, you know, I end of the day. I'm gonna be biting the bullet and doing what Nintendo wants me to do But whatever we now know what it's called. We know that it is required for lobbies and chat We'll see if anything else gets uncovered before the app launches at some point this summer That's what's crazy. It's supposed to be launching at some point this summer, but we don't know when now You figure it would have be something they'd talk about especially with Splatoon 2 coming But I assume it's launching alongside Splatoon 2 since that's the first game to support voice chat Anyways, folks, this is Nintendo Ruffle Jans from Nintendo Prime signing out