- Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat will require a phone number to use
- This will probably help prevent children from accessing the service without authorization
- It offers voice calls out of the box or video calls with the optional Nintendo Switch 2 camera accessory
The Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat function will require a mobile phone number to use.
As the Carnet Carnet notebook pointed out, this was disclosed on the “applicant to the developer Vol. 17, GameChat – Chapter 1 ‘Interview on the Nintendo website.
“The recording of the mobile phone number required to use GameChat. Children must obtain approval of a parent or tutor via the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls application to use GameChat”, reads a small review at the top of the page.
The US GameChat section of the site is developing a little further, explaining that “as an additional safety measure, a text message verification is necessary to configure GameChat”.
This is the same phone number saved to your Nintendo account. Presumably, those who are prohibited from using GameChat for poor behavior could not use the same phone number to access it on another account.
The requirement is also supposed to help prevent children from accessing the service without parental authorization, which is necessary for those under the age of 16. Children that young people have little chance of having access to a mobile phone, potentially softening certain parental concerns that GameChat could be used to communicate with online foreigners.
Although it can be used via the intra-construct microphone of the console, GameChat is also compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2 camera accessory. Sold separately, the Nintendo Switch 2 camera allows video chat features.
You can only start GameChat sessions with people on your list of Nintendo friends, who must be invited to the session.
The Nintendo Switch 2 will be launched worldwide on June 5. British pre -orders and American pre -orders are now live.
