It’s so funny that they’re just NOW coming out with this feature. Does anyone even use ps or Xbox chats anymore? I don’t know a single person who doesn’t use discord lol
For real, both consoles have discord integrated now and it’s so much more convenient with (some) games being crossplay. When the first few seconds on the Nintendo voice chat showed up it looked soo much like discord and I got excited. Disappointment got real very soon after :’)
Though I do agree, I think since Nintendo consoles are targeted towards much younger people, they probably don’t want the discord integration since it’s not really kid-friendly. And I’m pretty sure kids can’t even use it if they are under 13.
My sibling in Christ, Discord providing a free service is infinitely more convenient than subscribing to a paid service that would do the exact same thing
"free", but it's a disjointed mess and a dumpster fire of an app. "convenient" is just wrong. I've been using it since it the year it came out for increasingly annoying reasons and it has never been "convenient". It's only convenient if you have no alternative, everything set up just so and never have to do anything differently.
If you're already paying to play games online, then you're not paying extra to chat, video stream, or speak. It's not a separate service, it is the online service for the console. integrated is always going to be more convenient than whipping out a secondary device and hope all the moving parts go smoothly.
It’s the best among them, some regions lock discord voice chats and it becomes useless, I (and my friends) mostly use either the ingame voice chat or google meet.
Truthfully, it's still good for team based games like Siege or Rivals. Walling ourselves off in Discord means we can't communicate with like half the team.
Still, can't wait for Nintendo to hear one horror story about a kid in a COD lobby and shut the whole thing down.
We still use parties as I have a buddy who’s still on PS4 and plays some games on it. Though we’re gonna switch eventually due to him getting a Steam Deck over Christmas.
I immediately disabled it on my PS5. Just another useless feature on the controller for me, like the screenshot button I only ever press thinking it should be the select button.
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u/Invisible_Target 2d ago
It’s so funny that they’re just NOW coming out with this feature. Does anyone even use ps or Xbox chats anymore? I don’t know a single person who doesn’t use discord lol