For most of my life, a common refrain about Nintendo has been that the company just doesn't really get the internet. It's been hard to argue against that, really; even on Nintendo Switch 2 , you have to exchange arcane friend codes with people to add them to your friends list.

When Nintendo announced that it was going all in on communal voice chat and other social features back in April, it was both easy and perfectly reasonable to scoff at it. GameChat, the catch-all term for the Switch 2's voice chat service, just looked like something that the other consoles have been able to do for nearly 20 years. Besides a couple of superfluous features tacked onto it (and a concerning reliance on open microphones rather than headsets), I was prepared to be underwhelmed.

I came away fairly im

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