Plus you can see your friend code for easy sharing

When it comes to online features in video games, Nintendo tends to struggle, and the Nintendo Switch isn’t exempt from the company’s short-sightedness, thanks to an Android and iOS app that’s required to pull the most of your online games on the system. Standard features like in-game voice chat have been built into the app for many Switch games, and since Nintendo Switch Online is tied to a subscription service, the lackluster app has been a sticking point for ages. .

Well, it looks like Nintendo finally remembered that the Nintendo Switch Online app exists, so it’s gotten a remarkable update. Nintendo Switch Online is now on version 2.0, bringing with it a new user interface design, along with a handful of new features, such as the ability to see which of your friends are online.

The Nintendo Switch Online app was released in 2017 to very little fanfare. As you can imagine, requiring an external app for voice chat didn’t sit well with most gamers (not when Discord is so easily used and much more robust), especially when that app still lacked standard features. , like the ability to add friends from the app itself. What’s crazy is that even after today’s 2.0 update, you still can’t add friends in the app, only on your Switch, a perfect illustration of Nintendo’s lack of foresight in the field of online games, still going strong.

What we’re getting with today’s update is a newly designed user interface, the ability to change your online status setting, and you can now see which of your friends are online. It also looks like Nintendo has finally acknowledged that sharing Friend Codes that were only generated on the Switch is extremely cumbersome, and so you can now view your Friend Code in the Nintendo Switch Online app for easy sharing. this code with your friends and family. While these are just minor tweaks that should have been available in the app to begin with, it’s nice to see Nintendo embark on such an effort five years after the app’s initial release.

So if you want to take a look for yourself to see what’s new in the Nintendo Switch Online app, you can access the Play Store listing via the widget below.

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