Nintendo switch 2 to require phone number after paying, to use gamechat?
Nintendo switch 2 to require phone number after paying, to use gamechat?


Not the Nintendo I grew up with, with the Wii and Wii U.
A phone number to use vice chat on switch what is this Twitter 2.0?
https://www.indy100.com/gaming/nintendo-switch-2-gamechat-requirements-phone-number
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It's not a bad way to create a barrier to griefers. Nintendo's market is mainly children, and they don't want random assholes creating accounts to troll kids.
43 0 Replyand maybe those so called children should learn digital safety.
2 0 ReplyChildren should learn a lot of things but that doesn't mean we can't make the world safer for them.
Edit: I meant broadly
For this specific example I get the annoyance but nintendo is always going to be extra careful.
18 0 ReplyThat's called parents teaching their kids, not ruining everyone elses lives.
9 0 ReplyThis is hilariously melodramatic
12 0 ReplyThus is Nintendo.
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phone number are not making anything safer, they just make it more annoying when you lose or break your phone.
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They will
7 0 ReplyIt sounds like they are.
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