The Nintendo Switch Online app is designed to help enhance your online gameplay experience on Nintendo Switch™. With this app, you can use voice chat while gaming, see whether your friends are online and use game-specific services!
Game-specific services are currently available for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3.
A Nintendo Switch Online membership is required to use this app.
◆ An introduction to game-specific services
・ Splatoon 3
・ View the online status of friends who play Splatoon 3
・ View your battle logs and Salmon Run stats
・ Check stage schedules
・ Animal Crossing: New Horizons
・ Send custom designs created in Animal Crossing games on Nintendo 3DS to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
・ Use your smart device to send messages that appear in-game
・ View the online status of your Best Friends
・ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
・ View posted videos
・ Queue downloads of user-created stages to play them in your copy of the game
・ Receive notifications about upcoming events
・ Splatoon 2
・ View your battle and Salmon Run stats
・ Check leaderboards and map schedules
◆ Checking the online status of friends
You can use your smart device to check whether your friends are online. You'll also be able to check what games your online friends are playing, and even send friend requests from within this app!
*You will need to use your Nintendo Switch console to accept friend requests and configure other friend settings.
◆ Using voice chat while gaming
When playing online in supported games, you can use voice chat with your friends via this app. How you use voice chat depends on the game and mode you're using - for example, when you split into teams in Splatoon 3, you can choose to use voice chat just with your team members so that friends on the other team won't know your next move.
Attention:
● A Nintendo Switch console and supported software are required to use this app's services.
● A paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online is required to play online in some Nintendo Switch software and to use some of this app's features.
● You must have a Nintendo Account for ages 13 and up in order to use some of this app's features, including voice chat.
● Permanent internet connection required for use.
● May contain advertisements and product placement.
● iOS version 15.0 or higher is required to use this app.
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Not that useful
I was hoping for more functionality and interaction between the app and your Nintendo switch account but honestly it’s completely bare bones and lazy.
It wouldn’t be hard to add a way to see your accounts library and use the store through the app like Steam does.
error
I was logging in, however whenever I login it keeps saying the page cannot be displayed. It says to try again but it won’t work. Fix this immediately.
Crashes on sign in
The app crashes on sign in.
Just Crashes
Cant even link account. Crashes after trying to select user. Not good enough.
I just want the railings to be higher then 2 stars
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Succeeds at Expectations
For what it’s worth, Nintendo has been able to do everything it set out to accomplish. It may not be as robust as PSN or Xbox Live, but they’ve been out for more than a decade at this point, and have had YEARS to refine and patch out bugs. Hopefully they’ll be able to improve in game lag, but at this point the app is perfectly satisfactory.
Voice chat
I was excited for this, but at the end it was a huge let down by the fact that it's too complicated to make it work in harmony. I really hope Nintendo will opt for a console voice chat instead of relying on an external device.
This voice chat solution is terrible
This voice chat solution is terrible. Nintendo need to make it right with a simple elegant intuitive solution.
HONEST Review
Too many problems, but there are some glaring issues with this service.
-voice chat cannot be used while using another app
-voice chat cannot be used while display is off
-cannot hear game audio if using voice chat
-audio will cut out when getting a notification.
Please look into fixing this app in order to modernise this into 2017's gaming standards.