You guys are missing my point. The point was not that you can use a bluetooth headset with your phone, but that there's nothing stopping the Switch from sending and receiving voice to/from your phone. From a user stand-point, basically nothing is out of the ordinary. You would speak into the Switch's microphone and you hear from its speakers. It's just that the back-end happens to send these signals via your smartphone through its app.Oh yeah!
Another accessory I will need to operate my Switch
What's the point, if the Switch can go online itself? If you're using the microphone and speakers on the Switch, why not have the Switch handle the communication? Why involve the phone at all? As I said, if the app is an extension of the online service like the Steam mobile app for example, that's fine, but if it's a requirement for online chats/matchmaking/play, that is absolutely ridiculous.
How are you making a claim for something not released yet? I'd like to be optimistic too but I'm gonna have to go with the less limited and free option on this one.
30% of what? I assumed this was free (assuming you pay for the online subscription)
I don't follow it closely but there was a point in the App Store's history that apple was forcing apps that are part of a subscription service to make the user pay for the subscription in app so they could get a 30% cut. I now vaguely recall something about Apple maybe allowing the offer to be paid outside the app but if it was offered in app it had to be at the same price meaning charging 30% more in app to cover the fees.
My iPhone 7 doesn't have a 3.5mm jack either. Audio can be run bluetooth or USB-C. Entry level bluetooth headsets are $20.
It's "literally the best way" if you're using a wired headset and you have to plug it in somewhere, but not if you're using a wireless headset that could connect to the Switch via Bluetooth.
To clarify, the Switch itself has an audio jack, but not the controllers. So unless you're using Bluetooth headsets designed for the device specifically you would have to have some other peripheral running either wired or wirelessly to your console. Almost everyone that owns a Switch will also have a smartphone, so they might as well just tap into the lowest common denominator rather than making people buy new headphones/earbuds or a separate peripheral just to use voice chat in docked mode
Agreed, but many people are still using wired headsets, myself included
Noce does the ps4 or xbox.
I think the pro controller should have a 3.5mm jack since that's the standard they're going with, but I can understand why the joy cons don't. For one thing, they're not always going to be together, and for another, they're not always going to be stationary. There's too much tech crammed into each of them to fit a wireless voice-audio unit, and there's not even a good place to put the jack on the outside of the joy cons. Having your smartphone in your pocket and a headset connected to that solves for several variables without having an overly-complicated or overpriced unique solution to the whole thing.
That's not the case, this just doesn't seem to make as much sense to a Western audience (yet). The amount of smartphone and app usage in Japan is through the roof, and it's not like they're the first or only country where this is the case. A smartphone app and the 3.5mm standard allows them to tap into both markets at once while clearly differentiating the two by quality of games.
