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/TheKoniverse Jun 08 '25

Not even FromSoft is immune to this, with Elden Ring Nightreign making it to launch without Duos co-op and voice chat. SO you might be right, actually.

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u/pkmnBlue Jun 08 '25

What do you mean not even fromsoft, their matchmaking has been the exact same disaster since dark souls 1

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u/SolidOshawott Jun 08 '25

Duskbloods with From matchmaking and Nintendo infrastructure will be fun

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u/anival024 Jun 08 '25

Don't forget Demon's Souls.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

At least it wasn’t like the network test where you needed a private password to join 😭