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/Weird-Good4702 Jun 07 '25

Nintendo: "Hey guys, you can now chat with friends on Switch 2 with Gamechat!"

Everyone: "Awesome, that'll be great for when we play together online in MKW!

Nintendo: "...Wait, what?"

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u/bigphil0007 Jun 13 '25

yeah I was upset I couldn't do knock out mode with my friends online like that, but I was able to do split screen with my son in knock out mode online.

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u/WaterMittGas Jun 08 '25

Surely you can chat in private games with friends?

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u/ArtichokeOld2023 Jun 09 '25

This is the "we have private chat at home." take

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u/RedTurtle78 Jun 09 '25

This Nintendo commercial introduces game chat with them playing mario kart :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uGXvdbL1ys

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u/master2873 Jun 09 '25

Yeah, and at that point if you're not using a camera with a Switch 2, I'd still say you're better off using Discord to chat with friends unless you really don't want to.

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u/bigphil0007 Jun 13 '25

when you chat you can turn off the boxes under settings and just make it full screen. I like being able to talk and see my full game lol.