Its been said by devs that the Bluetooth chipset in the Switch actually isn't capable of being used as an audio controller. If true, its literally impossible to use Bluetooth audio devices on the Switch. Which is a huge shame and a massive fucking oversight on Nintendo's part.

 

I hope so, especially because I'd like to use other controllers too, like the Xbox One S one. There are special dongles (Magic-NS) that make this possible, but a software solution would definitely be a better (and cheaper) solution.

Doubt. The chipset is a BCM4356, also included in the Nexus 6, HTC M9 and GPD Win. It's certainly an OS thing, they just want to avoid yet another possible entry point.

 

That's... not true.
The only bottleneck would be transfer speed, any bluetooth chipset can be used as an audio controller.
In fact, it already is. HD rumble. That's just binary audio being send via bluetooth.
Also, we know the bluetooth speed is pretty good, considering the live video stream from the IR camera as seen in Labo.

 

no, I'm saying that allowing any Bluetooth device to connect is no worse then any usb device to connnect, the latter of which is already possible and easily more likely to be made malicious

 

It won't happen.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/why-i-t...llers-with-a-headphone-jack-for-audio.500104/

 

There is one extreme flaw about his assumption. Bluetooth is a confusing technology at consumer level because its named after the group that designs it rather than the actual specification.

Bluetooth at least nowadays has two different stacks, traditional Bluetooth technology which is a a higher data rate, and BLE or Bluetooth low energy. BLE was invented primarily to maximize the longevity of sensors in IoT devices, as deploying a sensor that's not plugged into a power source, you want to maximize its longevity, thus BLE is designed to only give state information(basically very low data rate) and re transmit when the state changes, so battery consumption is minimized.

Most modern devices such as a smartphone advertise the tech as Bluetooth only, but in reality, phones typically have a dual stack Bluetooth module, that is a stack for high data(Traditional), and a stack for low data(BLE) as both stacks almost have nothing similar to each other other than being named by their mother company.

The reason why I believe the logic is flawed is the following:

1. BLE was invented during Bluetooth 4.0 specifications

2. Nintendo's specifications for the system has the main system capable of 4.1 (most common on devices made around or after 2013) but clearly state that joycons are using bluetooth 3.0 on the following page:

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/features/tech-specs/

3. The above is supported by the fact that you can connect joycons to a PC. I personally have an old bluetooth 2.0(bluetooth spec, not usb spec) usb dongle which can connect to my Joycons and receive inputs (albeit pretty crapily, but the dongle has 0 BLE capability)