Under Nintendos Switch 2 Direct i förrgår ägnades det en hel del tid åt att demonstrera GameChat. Vilket tydligt förväntas bli en central del av konsolens upplevelse och som man internt tror stenhårt på, ja rentav anser vara sin "killer app" till Switch 2. Något som även tydliggjordes under en frågestund med de två Nintendo-utvecklarna Sumikazu Ono och Eiji Tokunaga som sa:
"When we were developing GameChat, we had in mind that it would be a defining feature of Switch 2"
Tokunaga och Ono minns hur exalterade de blev av att se Nintendo-cheferna socialisera med varandra via GameChat.
"During development, we had the opportunity for Nintendo executives to experience GameChat. Seeing them try out the feature for the first time and be able to video chat and share game screens smoothly gave us a certain confidence that this works."
Internt så tillbringade Nintendo mycket tid med att utforska GameChat och dess möljligheter
"But we felt we needed to dig deeper and fully explore the potential of game screen sharing by playing before we could feel confident of it truly becoming a defining feature of Switch 2. So, we spent about two hours every day playing various games while sharing screens via GameChat, and continued researching the kinds of situations in which it would be fun to use this feature."
De två utvecklarna minns speciellt ett ögonblick som involverade spelet Baba Is You som fick dem att se potentialen med att kunna dela skärm.
"One day, one of our team members was playing a puzzle game called Baba Is You, and the rest of us were curious to know what kind of game it was. The person who was playing the game shared their screen, and we were all like, 'Wow, we didn't know such an interesting puzzle game existed"
Anser du att GameChat på något vis är banbrytande?
Webbkamera och voice chat.. "banbrytande".