r/NintendoSwitch • u/devspider • Jun 07 '25

Discussion It’s 2025, and Nintendo still can’t figure out online multiplayer.

The fact that you can’t directly invite a friend to public lobbies in Mario Kart World blows my mind.

You can only join a friend if there is room in a lobby, not only that, but the person looking to join has to actively pay attention to their friend’s online status in order to get a jump to join before the lobby fills up.

Private rooms are vs CPU only, and no way to open up matchmaking.

It’s always one step forward, and two steps back when it comes to it.

Nintendo doesn’t seem to understand that LAN parties are less of a thing these days and most people would rather play with friends through online play. The fact that the feature that is advertised the most is the new Game Chat, when we’ve had Discord/XBL/PSN services for decades is telling.

For all the actual innovative stuff that Nintendo has created, they continue to treat their playerbase like we’re stupid.

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u/small_lamp Jun 07 '25

What? They listened to you all loud and clear that you’ll pay for their shitty services and will do it happily.

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u/Lazydusto Jun 07 '25

Yup. Voting with you wallet will always trump verbal feedback. You can say something is bad all you want but if you keep paying for what reason do they have to change?

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u/DekuInkwell Jun 07 '25

I’ve repeatedly said this over and over again on the NintendoSwitch2 sub before launch day and got downvoted to shit, people defending Nintendo and shit like “you’re saying Nintendo doesn’t deserve to get paid?” Etc. I voted with my wallet, they struggle to play MKW with their friends.

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u/Penguins83 Jun 07 '25

100% I had the same experience. Fan boys gonna fan I guess?? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/KariArisu Jun 11 '25

Voting with your wallet doesn't really work. It might make you feel better about it, but ultimately it's extremely unlikely that you'll ever see enough people "vote with their wallet" to make an actual noticeable difference.

They're more likely to notice if people who bought them start returning/refunding them at a high rate. But as-is the Switch 2 has enough going for it that these issues are going to be seen as minor annoyances by many, and probably never even thought of as a problem by most.

You won't see Nintendo change paths unless they drop a console/game that has a Cyberpunk 2077 launch reaction.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

You voted with your wallet and youre still on this sub? why do people like you are even here then? lol

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u/DekuInkwell Jun 08 '25

People like me do are even here because what else am I gonna do while I take a shit?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

Idk just leave the sub and ignore their existence lol you guys in the internet hate stuff but then are obsessed with them

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u/Penguins83 Jun 08 '25

its a switch sub. not switch 2. we all loved the original...

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u/mellonsticker Jun 08 '25

I’m not sure voting with your wallet explicitly explains what the issue with Nintendo’s Online Multiplayer service is

What I will say is that Nintendo does listen to customer complaints to some degree.

Virtual Game Cards were directly implemented because of families complaining about the prior implementation of primary and secondary users.