Is ANYONE Using Voice Chat on Nintendo Switch?
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If I heard Jon’s voice while I’m playing, I’d be quite delighted! A shame no one will cause no one uses Nintendo’s app!
If I heard Jon's voice during a game, I'd tell him he had a voice for radio
It should be already built in with a party system. Would also be nice if you could play with random players on classic games.
I opened the app once out of curiosity with Mario Kart and met a lovely gentlemen from Germany :)
This is so wholesome.
More chance to get a 3DS streetpass, than to find someone on NSO voicechat!
Here's hoping Street Pass will come back with the Switch 2, though.
Nice to see you here! You're one of my favourite (pixel) artists. I strive to achieve the level of fluidity you put in your animations. Seen your name a lot on the spriters-resource back in the day and been quietly following ever since. :)
I don't use voice chat, but I do use the app every day. I use the app with Animal Crossing to check my inventory while in the dressing room to know if I already have a certain clothing item or not.
Same. Very useful for Animal Crossing. Especially for turnips
I met the mother of my child on the Nintendo Switch Online Voice Chat application. No, I am not kidding
I would love to hear more about that. Cheers on the relationship and child.
storytime please lol
@ Alright I'll give the sparknotes version lol: This was in November 2019. I was playing some MK8 solo. Randomly got the notification that 8 ppl were on voice chat. I was shocked people were using it. But I went ahead and hopped on and had a blast. A few games later, my future gf joined. We were all having a lot of fun in the group setting. As it got later, people kept dropping out of chat and eventually it was just me and her. We help talking for about an hour after, things were really clicking but obvs I wasn't viewing it as a real possibility.
But we all kept playing every night, kind of as a crew. I met a lot of people, but she and I would play every night. By pure chance we lived in the same state -- everyone else in the crew lived elsewhere. So about a month after meeting online we decided to meet up and the rest is history!
I do miss those days. There were lots and lots of poeple that used the chat in MK8. but they would cluster off with other people who also used VC. Everyone would always friend each other and when you'd boot up the game you'd just look for friends you knew used it and join their games. Good times.
i've used it a few select times. two were as a half joke, and the other was when i got a notification in a Mario Kart lobby that someone was in the voice chat. Out of sheer curiosity I joined and exchanged a very small number of words with them. They added me as a friend and now sometimes invite me to lobbies for Super Mario Party, a game I don't own 👍
My office was using the app for our office Mario Party league (I'm current champion btw) we put in over 100 hours of Mario Party Superstars with it, only to find that the NSO app isn't compatible with Mario Party Jamboree! I actually called nintendo customer service about it and they were convinced they are compatible until they failed to solve it in repeated attempts of calling me back with new options. My guess is the feature was dropped because Jamboree was made with an eventual Switch 2 exclusive voice chat option in mind.
What field of work do u do? it’s rlly cute that ur office harbours that type of friendship over Nintendo games.
Banker
I am super jealous your office has a Mario Party league.
I remember using it with a friend for MUA3 and after 5 minutes going "Discord?", "Discord..."
Is that legendary leaker WaddleDeeKnows???
Jons disguised voice is the voice I always hear when I watch these videos
If you have to make a RUclips video asking if anyone is using voice chat on Nintendo Switch online in 2025, the answer is nobody.
Imagine you're just playing some online Mario kart or Mario tennis and you hear Patrick Stewart telling you to get on the switch online app to talk to him
5:44 James trying to find his wife in silent hill
I remember sometime in 2020 I was playing MK8 online and someone was using the app cause I got a notification, so I decided to join and it was 2 people talking about American politics and another time where another group of two were just flirting so i don’t know maybe it’s a good no one uses it 💀
I saw one guy using it once in Mario maker 2. That was like 6 years ago
From the perspective of a Splatoon fanatic, I occasionally forget the app serves little to no purpose for everyone else. even then it's only really useful for looking up upcoming stage rotations and some cool stats that are otherwise not visible through the game proper. Really a perplexing application that I'm surprised they never pivoted to do more with.
TBH the only reason I downloaded the NSO app was so that I could unlock a fursuit in Splatoon 3. I entirely forgot that it even has a voice chat feature.
There's a fursuit in Spl3?
@@goSciuKM Well, a partial fursuit anyway. There's a Judd cosplay that you unlock piece by piece via the app. This includes paws as shoes and an outfit for the torso that comes with paw gloves. But unfortunately instead of a proper Judd fursuit head the headwear is just a cat ears headband.
So, it isn't _really_ a fursuit... but it is fun to say that my character is wearing a fursuit. And technically, if you have the right amiibo, you could unlock a Fresh Fish mascot outfit that comes with a real fursuit head. If you wanna mix and match to create a fish/cat hybrid fursuit.
i actually have gotten randoms to join the voice chat in mk8d lobbies in like 2023 when the booster course pass was releasing, had some nice chats when it happened, the switch does notify other members of lobbies when someone's using it so you really do just have to keep trying until someone actually gets it
same
Jon: "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to using the Nintendo Switch Online App"
I think that the voice chat function of the Nintendo Switch Online app was designed more for parents to be able to monitor who their child was talking to. Unlike with headphones the conversation is broadcasted over the phone's speakers, and because it is an app the parent controls when and if voice communication even occurs and can quickly end the chat session when they want.
I feel like, even in that context, there are much better alternatives that don't kneecap the entire concept of voice chat.
I used it for Animal Crossing typing yeah...that's it.
Apparently some games, I think Mario Tennis, allowed you to talk to strangers in-game which is wild for Nintendo. But I doubt anyone used it.
I've played my switch online for hundreds of hours and only remember seeing a notification to join voice chat in a mk8 lobby once.
I distinctly remember playing mk8dx with a friend using discord,
And suddenly seeing a Nintendo vc popup in the top left.
It's the first and last time i ever saw that notification. (Happened last year btw)
The NSO app is very useful if your really into splatoon 3 since you can now host/play tournaments on it and it's also good for stats, plus you can see further into the schedule of mode rotations than you can in game on it. Don't how much use the other supported games are though, and no I don't use the app for voice chat and instead do the same thing as you.
The app is an indispensable tool if you play Splatoon 3, but I don't know of anyone who uses it for voice chat.
I use it with my brother. He doesn't really use discord.
I actually met people in smash ultimate arenas thanks to this. I distinctly recall being bewildered to see the public arena i joined had people in the voice chat. I had to download the app to participate. I eventually moved those fellas to discord 😂.
My friends and I tried it for Smash just out of curiosity. The crunchy audio made us instantly go back to Discord
“Mary, please!” 🤣
I only really use the app mostly for Splatoon, like looking at the schedule, info and stats or being able to give my friend code to someone since the information is on the app
I'm assuming Nintendo is working on implementing this natively on Switch 2
We can only hope so...
i completely forgot you don't even have to use the clunky nintendo headphones anymore
your wind waker amiibo fell over
I was using the app last night for Mario Kart as a joke with some friends. We ended up getting 6 people in the call!
Everytime I visit my family, we play Mario Kart 8 online together (we all got Switchs)
Next time I'll open up Voice Chat, just for giggles.
I am hungry.
For duck. 🦆
Imagine the *sweats* playing animal crossing blasting your ears off on why "small rock" is better than "little rock" peak gaming 👌
I for one would enjoy an entire video or podcast of just Jon doing his posh tennis commentator voice.
I actually just used the app recently when I was out with a friend to add each other's friend codes, since we weren't previously friends on switch.
Last year me and a friend used the feature in MK8D, just to see if anyone else would join. Nobody did, so it was just us screaming and making noises at one another.
I actually used the app to talk to strangers in Smash Bros Ultimate when it first came out! I set my one on one arena to public and I had fun exchanging tips with other players as the game was pretty new. Haven't used it since, but I do remember enjoying the feature at the time.
I was today years old when I found out you can even use that app for random game chat lol
It was the go-to me and my mom used when she was playing Animal Crossing regularly, but that's literally it.
i use it whenever i play mario kart, sometimes nobody joins all day and other times they join more often. i’ve noticed that regional uses it more often and even more so in battle regional
Voice chat is always off, unless im playing in a private group with friends.
Did you know that Jon Cartwright was actually the narrator of the Critcally Acclaimed The Town With No Name bonus content, he sounds like him too.
This video is how I remembered I had NSO notifications turned off. Gonna switch that up and see if I run into any brave soul running their mic.
4:09 For a second you sounded like the narrator from the Stanley parable 😂
I used voice chat a decent amount in the earlier days, my cousin doesn’t use much social media so we had used that for a time before he made a Discord account.
Although one time when playing Dragalia Lost with a friend, Discord VC went down so we opened up the SNES NSO app and connected to VC through that.
And when it was added to Mario Kart, I did try it out the VC a bit and did have fun with some people.
Rarely check it from time to time now as no one is really on anymore anyways.
A standalone app is an adiitional step most won't take when discord exists and is better in every way.
Riiiiight when it first launched with MK8D support, for two weeks I'd get online in a VC with others. I think at the time, Nintendo would try and push people who were using the VC toward the same lobbies, because we'd end up with the same group of people in the MarioKart lobbies on Voice Chat every single night, even though starting off we didn't have one another added or anything. I don't talk to any of them anymore, but it was nice while it was happening!
I doubt most consumers even know it exists. It's baffling that they thought this would be a good idea.
Having voice chat built in to the console is easier to use
Love John just becomes Beasts Wars Megatron
Yeah, I still listen to Nintendo Voice Chat. Oh wait, that wasn't the question
I have the app specifically for Animal Crossing and Splatoon. And not even for the voice chat, but the little shops in the app, and using my phone to type for AC is so convenient
For Splatoon 3, I have previously seen the voice chat icon for occasional friends rooms that I never joined. But even for that it seemed to be 2 or 3 friends out of over 200. 🤷 So the VC use overall feels like 1% for friends and even less so for strangers.
As many interested in talking prefer Discord, it feels much more common for players to find various ways to share their discord usernames through the games instead. To anyone who reads this - if you have a friend where their username on Switch either ends with a # and 4 numbers (the classic way) or starts with “dc:” (a more recent way) then that may mean they’d like to talk to you 😉
Speaking from experience it can be a cool way to meet people.👍
But for the Nintendo app, suspect it would have slightly more use if it included texting like PlayStation has. Or ideally direct inclusion of discord for Switch 2 (we can dream🙏) Otherwise it feels like only the team at Nintendo EPD5 remember the app exists. Additional fun fact - for recent apple devices, the app can use Apple widgets to show S3’s stage schedule on your home screen:)
I used the voice chat feature of the app with friends once (maybe twice) and then never again.
The problem with trying it make a middleman app is that a significantly better one already exists. If you online play Switch games online with friends you have zero incentive to use the NSO app.
I do enjoy hopping on VC when using Mario Kart because occasionally I do get people to join.
I remember I tried this one time and someone called me gay. It was a weird and funny experience but I can see why people don’t want use this.
Jon I could listen to you all day, dude
I opened the app once and thought it was too cumbersome and just gave up. Which is what I think Nintendo really wants you to do. They don't want you to talk to people, so they implement it in the most stupid way imaginable.
I grew up playing games in the N64, so this is not a high priority for me either.
I use it and find some hilarous people on Mario Kart 8 from time to time . Like they are full on comedian stand up level of funny 😂😂😂
Yeah, Nintendo kinda made a slight mistake by not implementing voice chat natively into their games. I get why, just look at games like CoD, but if you have to download a separate app to use it, most people won't bother. Hell, some sort of built-in Discord support (like PS5 recently added) would do wonders for Switch 2.
Whenever I play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with friends every once in awhile I'll pop into the voice chat on the mobile app just so that little notification will pop up on their screen lol
If it were possible for players to hear in-game who was using the app, perhaps more people would join...
I hope if there’s an XCXDE overview trailer that the app not only gets updated to include XCX but to also highlight the utility of that in said trailer. In my experience, the Miiverse functionality was great for handling in-game giveaways/trades (not that they were always respected, mind) and really helpful with one particular Squad Mission wherein it’s best to wait out fire rain on Cualdros for the rainbow effect to kick in and then have everyone pop Overdrive after getting their TP boosted before engaging with the big bad (IYKYK), and so far it doesn’t look like there’s anything replacing that in Definitive.
I use Voice chat, but no one is on Voice chat because there scared of anyone hearing there voices or something so I give up! 😮
This is such weird timing, 2 or 3 days ago I played and for the first time ever, I got a notification someone there was in NSO voice chat
Even on PC or other console, do people even speak to strangers while playing? I remember trying that once until a child started screaming at me because I've picked up a item he wanted. The kid went: "IT'S MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE! GIVE IT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" - I actually got scared, left the game and never played it again. Never used voice chat again.
I rarely do but if I'm not playing with friends, certain games can kinda feel lonely now if it's just me. A game like Lethal Company is a natural fit for voice chat for example
If only I could talk to my goat Jon Cartwright on the Nintendo Switch Online App
I have it installed, but never used it for talking. (maybe I did once, for testing)
Main reason for me having it, is Animal Crossing and adding friends when I meet someone new (at a party or so).
No. Should've never been a separate app to begin with. Horrible decision making by Nintendo.
There's a reason why Xbox and Playstation also now just have straight up discord support. Playstation was weird initially but even that now has that you can join directly from console.
My only personal problem is that Playstation forces the voices to come through controller, because I have headphones set up through TV so it thinks I use TV speakers.
You realise that the mario kart 8 only supports voice chat in the LOBBY only!
I mostly use it to better communicate with friends during Big Runs in Splatoon 3
If I ever got a chance to play against you in Panel de Pon on the SNES online app, I'd happily hop into Switch voice chat!
I don't use the app anymore in any capacity... Its game-specific services aren't needed by me anymore. I did try the voice chat back when it first launched, though, and got a pleasant-enough group of 5-6 people chatting in Mario Kart!
Honestly, having voice chat available through the app is nice. The only actual bad part is the fact that that's the ONLY OPTION for voice chat. If headsets and the like were supported, then having voice chat in the app would be completely inoffensive.
Nintendo's "answer" to Voice Chat feels like them trying to solve a problem that was already solved years ago, and feels just as archaic as it was before even that.
Edit: Wow, it feels like even Nintendo themselves don't give a crap about this feature, so much so they didn't even bother updating the list of games to include NSO libraries outside of the NES.
I've been trying to find someone to talk to through the Wii Phone's NSO app for a good couple of years now, and I've never managed to come across one person... Clearly, the fabrics of reality want to keep us NSO talkers apart.
I completely forgot the feature existed
The only times I used the NSO app was to check out stage rotations in Splatoon 2 & 3. I say "used" because 1.) I don't play either of those two games anymore and 2.) I uninstalled the app two years ago and haven't bothered to reinstall it since. The few times I did VC with other people while playing Switch games was through Discord, which is a far superior option compared to the phone app.
I sincerely hope that, when the Switch 2 launches, Nintendo just ditches the phone app altogether and has native VC built into the system as a general feature. The fact that Nintendo has not updated the supported games list for VC on their website in over two years hopefully shows that they're going to be moving away from the phone app. However, whether they do or not, I will still probably stick with Discord in the end.
I hope the switch 2 uses the actual online service on the hardware itself. I hate the Nintendo Switch online app with a PASSION. I can't believe Nintendo thought they were being cool and innovative by forcing people to use alternative Hardware for basic things like messaging
I use the app more or less frequently but only to see my splatoon 3 matches and stuff
Most people with a Nintendo Switch don't know about the Nintendo Switch app. Heck even Nintendo isn't using it.
Me and my friends also use Discord for everything. If it’s a console game like Guilty Gear or Splatoon, it’s gonna be Discord voice chat. If it’s a computer game it’s gonna be Discord voice chat. If it’s a game with built in voice chat like Marvel Infinite Beyond, it’s STILL gonna be Discord voice chat. The ONLY game I’ve considered using something other than Discord voice chat for is Online Blood On The Clocktower, and that’s because the web app has features built to simulate an in-person game.
Also, I do appreciate the evil monologuing to no one in particular on and about the app.
I remember back when the app launched me and mybest friend hopped in a voice chat in Mk8
And it was the most fun hearing us all scream in chaos
I remember we got the while room to play donkey kong on one of the DK tracks and we blasted Smash's Gang Plank Galeon
I have the app downloaded for Animal Crossing and Splatoon 3 and I use the app at least once per play session. Tho I do just about everything but voice chat, I just hop on discord.
I think it’s neat that the app has a ton of small mini-apps on there, I just wish they kept adding more sections. A Mario Kart TV section would’ve been cool.
I have the app installed, but that's so I can check Splatoon schedules and some stats that are only available in the app. I've never touched the voice chat. Like you I'm in a discord call with friends if I'm chatting in a game at all.
I did once use the voice chat function to talk to a friend (because discord was down)
I have used that service maybe twice in all of my time.
I knew this was a Jon video before I even clicked on it.
Young man yells at cloud. :D
Not going to lie, I totally forgot about this feature.
I used voice chat on nso once and only once. It was enough for me to realize I'm not using this again haha
My problem with Switch sports isn't with the game itself, because i really couldn't care for it. It's more so to do with how it really isn't a sequel to Wii Sports. It's moreso a spiritual successor being marketed as a sequel. If anything, it feels like one of those 3rd party Wii Sports clones that used wannbe Miis, but inexplicably made by Nintendo.
I honestly hate it for what it started. And that was a stupid conspiracy theory of Nintendo "killing" the Miis. No thanks to NintendoLife putting out a horrible clickbait video on it. I mean, even after Switch Sports released, we got Miis in Mario Kart Tour with the Mii Racing Suits and most of those eventually got brought over to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Heck, even Super Nintendo World's Mario Kart ride references them on the way there!
I honestly find it more inuslting that Switch Sports came the year after the excellent Switch version of Miitopia, which had the best Mii customizations out there.
I always connect with strangers via the app. I'm sad to say all these players screened Jon.
In Mario Kart 8 you could chat with friends by simply holding down minus on the Wii U Gamepad thanks to the built-in mic. I used to chat with my party all the time in MH3U as well.
Never knew they had it until today.
Nintendo have the worse way to use voice and thankfully no one want to use it😂
I embarrassingly use the chat TOO much lol
The app is useful to check Splatoon rotations lol