Splatoon 3 is Trying it's Hardest to Keep Switch Online’s Mobile App Relevant
Nintendo Switch Online has had a bit of a shaky history over the last five years. Originally debuting as a free service, Switch Online offered a serviceable at best way to play online Nintendo games. Severe latency issues, game-breaking bugs, and more technical problems plagued Switch Online when it first dropped. At the same time, Nintendo released a Switch Online mobile app, intended to be used as a means to communicate with online friends. Paling in comparison to the competition's party systems, the Switch Online mobile app was soon forgotten about, but Splatoon 3 is trying its hardest to keep it alive.
About a week ago, Nintendo hosted a large-scale Direct for one of the year's most anticipated titles, Splatoon 3. This Direct unveiled a great deal of information about the upcoming game, ranging from some new weapons, maps, and modes, to the intricacies of Splatoon 3's faster combat flow. But hidden among the rest was the announcement that Splatoon 3 is going to be using Nintendo Switch Online's mobile app, something that even die-hard Nintendo fans had long forgotten.
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Launched in June 2017, Nintendo Switch Online's mobile app released right alongside Splatoon 2. The Switch Online mobile app soon rose to infamy when a diagram showing how to set up Splatoon 2's voice chat made the rounds online. The now-infamous diagram was mocked relentlessly by just about everyone, with many bewildered at the multi-step instructions, all just to plug a headset into a controller and access Splatoon 2's voice chat system.
Since then, the Switch Online mobile app has kept pretty much to the shadows, only cropping up every now and then when a big Nintendo AAA
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