Nintendo Switch Online 12+
Enhance your gaming experience
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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- Free
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Description
The Nintendo Switch Online app is designed to help enhance your online gameplay experience on Nintendo Switch™. With this app, you can use voice chat while gaming, see whether your friends are online and use game-specific services!
Game-specific services are currently available for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3.
A Nintendo Switch Online membership is required to use this app.
◆ An introduction to game-specific services
・ Splatoon 3
・ View the online status of friends who play Splatoon 3
・ View your battle logs and Salmon Run stats
・ Check stage schedules
・ Animal Crossing: New Horizons
・ Send custom designs created in Animal Crossing games on Nintendo 3DS to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
・ Use your smart device to send messages that appear in-game
・ View the online status of your Best Friends
・ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
・ View posted videos
・ Queue downloads of user-created stages to play them in your copy of the game
・ Receive notifications about upcoming events
・ Splatoon 2
・ View your battle and Salmon Run stats
・ Check leaderboards and map schedules
◆ Checking the online status of friends
You can use your smart device to check whether your friends are online. You'll also be able to check what games your online friends are playing, and even send friend requests from within this app!
*You will need to use your Nintendo Switch console to accept friend requests and configure other friend settings.
◆ Using voice chat while gaming
When playing online in supported games, you can use voice chat with your friends via this app. How you use voice chat depends on the game and mode you're using - for example, when you split into teams in Splatoon 3, you can choose to use voice chat just with your team members so that friends on the other team won't know your next move.
Attention:
● A Nintendo Switch console and supported software are required to use this app's services.
● A paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online is required to play online in some Nintendo Switch software and to use some of this app's features.
● You must have a Nintendo Account for ages 13 and up in order to use some of this app's features, including voice chat.
● Permanent internet connection required for use.
● May contain advertisements and product placement.
● iOS version 15.0 or higher is required to use this app.
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What’s New
Version 2.11.0
Various issues are now resolved.
Ratings and Reviews
Improvement needed, what could be better
I only use this app for animal crossing and it does make it a lot easier to text, that being said it’d be nice to see some other features with the animal crossing game. Maybe the option to receive notifications when your best friends are online? I’d personally appreciate that i’m not sure about other people.
I’ve not used the voice chat option yet but i do wish that you could just use your switch for the voice chat instead of a separate app on your phone because it just makes things more of a hassle and you might as well just facetime someone so it’s almost useless.
There are a lot of improvements that could be made to this app and I really hope in future that the app gets better
Nintendon't like online for some reason
I don't actually think the whole idea of the online app is an entirely a bad one, PlayStation has one, xbox has one too. Both these apps with added online chat would be a decent idea...Right? Well yes, but that isn't what this is, you can't buy from the nintendo eshop, you can't actually add people to your friends list as such, you can't read blogs, you cant edit your account, basically you can't do a lot of things I, and I'm sure many others were expecting. Which is a shame, and a real step backwards from the progress I thought Nintendo were making. It's a shame because the Nintendo Switch is a great console. Hopefully this app will be updated over time to add features, should that happen then I'll come back and update this review accordingly.
So, years on from release and the app still serves no real purpose, no account management, no eshop access, the list of missing features could go on for ages. In my opinion considering all phones these days have touch screens Nintendo should resurrect Miiverse as part of this app which would be a great addition, Miiverse was quite a niche service, however on a smartphone it’s reach would be far greater than it was before.
Make the App Available To International Players
Given that ACNH sold 33m copies worldwide, why is this app only available on selected countries’ App Stores?
Please make it available worldwide. It’s not only a few countries that have people playing ACNH. We have humans playing ACNH in other parts of the world too, and we love ACNH as well! So please make it happen!
If possible, make the Nintendo e-shop international too. International digital shopping can now be done in this era, so why limit your e-shop to just some countries when you have players all over the world? If countries are too small, maybe you can consider grouping under a geographical subregion/area e-shop instead of a country e-shop?
App Privacy
The developer, Nintendo Co., Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Size
- 45.9 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2017 Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Price
- Free