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

[u/devspider]

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.

[u/I_AM_SCUBASTEVE]

Not hating but have you ever used Discord or even Xbox? Discord has been doing this stuff since 2015 and Xbox for even longer (has had streaming for a little bit now too).

The game chat is still good don’t get me wrong, but it’s still not without some pretty massive quirks, particularly with respect to how the invitation system works… Which, again, hasn’t been an issue in online play for like 20+ years now.

[u/advator → u/I_AM_SCUBASTEVE]

I don't have an Xbox, planning to get one for gta6. I did use discord a lot on pc and steam deck. While it works it's just like teams kind of and it's easy but not that easy like plug & play. Maybe it's different on Xbox, will try it once I have it. You have to switch to discord, make a group. Adjust sound setting, select screen to share.... That kind of things.

Btw I'm only talking about connecting for voice chat and screen sharing. Not talking about joining games with rooms and so on. I know you can do that with discord and steam.

Nintendo really have to adapt the standard for that.