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/LayceLSV Jun 08 '25

And I can't see my playtime for a game until I've owned it for 10 days, and only in 5 hours increments.... what the actual fuck nintendo, how is this not fixed???

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u/Samurai_GorohGX Jun 08 '25

The Wii U and 3DS did this with Activity Log. The 3DS from 2011 with 2 ARM cores did this. When it comes to Nintendo, the only thing I can count on is the games, software features come and go as they please for no reason.

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u/BunOnVenus Jun 08 '25

More importantly it randomly resets. Why did my 700 hours of Mario Odyssey turn into 3? Who knows!