Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button
BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 days ago
Nothing burger. You need an online subscription to say online. How many people are realistically going to use a Nintendo Switch to hop on Game Chat and NOT play online games with the people you are chatting with?
zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s more just that the controller has a button that is tied to an online subscription only feature. You need to pay for online services for Playstation and Xbox too, but neither have controller buttons that are tied to the subscription.
BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 days ago
But they do have dedicated buttons for share/record/streaming and other social gaming activities. You can’t reassign them either. Social gaming activities is what Nintendo is doing here, essentially. The article makes it seem like “oh no I can’t jump in Mario if I don’t pay a monthly fee”. They’re providing a button shortcut if you want to use their game chat when you’re online gaming. It is useless if you’re not online gaming. That’s it.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sure, but those share buttons can be used offline. I just use them for screenshots/short clip capture that I send to my personal devices.
Durandal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
You can remap any button on the switch 2 in the settings. Game chat is just the default setting.
subignition@fedia.io 3 days ago
You can remap it to any other button or turn it off entirely. To use your example you could use it as a second capture button if you prefer it on the right controller instead of the left one