The phone is being used as a hotspot in lieu of a wi-fi connection. Either option works. This isn't your phone doing anything *for* the Switch, it's just serving as a connection to the internet.
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Splatoon 2 uses about 150MB of mobile data per hour while tethering
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The phone is being used as a hotspot in lieu of a wi-fi connection. Either option works. This isn't your phone doing anything *for* the Switch, it's just serving as a connection to the internet.
Diablohead
Member
Doesn't the Wii u version require more then most other games for its upload? It's why people have connection issues because it's sending so much sync data (guessing all the ink data)
I remember when living away from home i played gears of war 1 all night and it took about 120megabytes over a good 5+ hour session.
I remember when living away from home i played gears of war 1 all night and it took about 120megabytes over a good 5+ hour session.
MetalliCabombination
Member
It could come with a 4g sim slot no?
I know what im talking about, 4g+tethering is counter intuitive and a pointless battery hog when this couldve been done from the awitch itself.
That and what happens of i get a call mid game?
Pretty sure network drops to 3g to accommodate non volte calls
Are you trolling? We're talking about mobile hotspots here.
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Jpop
Unconfirmed Member
I think he wants a Nintendo smartphone.
There's no need for it to come with a 4G slot...it isn't supposed to compete with tablets as a constantly networked device. The option for wi-fi tethering is there and, while a solution, probably not an ideal one. If Nintendo made some kind of data deal with a cellular carrier, they'd be getting panned for (a) increasing prices unnecessarily and (b) not providing an optimal network for online play on the go. Your criticism is so strangely barbed towards Nintendo.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Is that really low?
I feel like Dota2/League use about half that much and those matches last 30-60 minutes.
I feel like Dota2/League use about half that much and those matches last 30-60 minutes.
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Jpop
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CrashPrime
Member
So with tmobile one do i get unlimited or is it capped at 10gb? I see people bragging unlimited but i thought teathering was a different beast.
MetalliCabombination
Member
Im not getting into this argument.
Nothing is more useless than nfc on a gaming console and Nintendo found it in their budget to put that in yet people find it ridiculous when people suggest it needed more internal memory or a sim slot, stuff that can actually enhance gaming or stuff like a browser or netflix that can enhance its value as a handheld.
In any case, my bad for raising this issue.
Im out. No amount of me fretting over it will change anything. Ill just wait and hope the revision comes with some of these. Ypu don't have to agree with me.
Amiibo print money. Of course they're going to include an NFC reader in the console.
And you can wait all you want, but 4G isn't coming to the Switch.
OfTheOverflow
Member
I guess that's good? I was under the impression that games actually used considerably less when playing online.
BronsonLee
Member
what the flying fuck are you talking about
I really don't get what he's saying either. I'm playing Overwatch and Dota2 solely using my mobile data, and I get decent pings (90ms-110ms). it's not THAT bad. When I do get a bad connection I just don't play, period.
My LTE is more stable than most Wifi.
The tick rate for Splatoon 2 is only 12.5hz? That's awful.
Its Quite Toasty
Banned
This is actually how I had to play as well, worked really well.
You are very wrong about NFC, discounting the Amiibos, it opens up a completely new avenue for game purchases. In Japan just about everyone, including kindergarteners, have an NFC/FeliCa card to use public transportation. While the feature is not yet enabled on the Switch, both the New3DS and Wii U are capable of making purchases using a standard NFC/FeliCa enabled card such as SUICA/PASMO/IOACA, etc.
This is far more important, everyone with a smartphone already has free tethering in Japan. So there is no reason to put in cellular connectivity hardware in the Switch.
PreyingShark
Member
Yep. https://twitter.com/octobyte_/status/845707555020124160
i mean, 150 mb is about 10 mb per a match and if you do the math for the required kbps it's about half of splatoon 1's upload speed requirement/consumption so it checks out.
PadWarrior
Member
Didn't work in the hospital for me Saturday. Got into matches and kept getting disconnected.
st1nk nuts
Member
I tried using my iphones hotspot on att and it would never connect to a game for some reason. I blame att. Rebooted both my phone and switch. Hotspot worked fine for surfing.
That's just awful and should be the real news story. I assume that's probably going to be the final tick rate since the whole point of the Splatoon test weekends is server stress test, if they were going with a higher tick rate it would have been implemented to properly test the servers.
This future has been here since 2010.
AlexFlame116
Member
I can think of two things wrong with this question.
NeOak
Member
I was watching Netflix on the 360 by tethering on AT&T with a Symbian phone on their unlimited dumbphone data plan in 2008.
It was faster than my DSL at the time. And yes, my wallet was raped when I bought the damn Wi-Fi adapter.
Cuningas de Häme
Member
Why it's awful? There was absolutely no problems for me when I played in the test. If everything works, what does it matter?
My brothers play online on PS4 (filthy casuals, I know...) and both of them use their phones, I believe. Or they have one of those "get Internet for your phone and home" -deals. I don't know. They are not rich, so they are not paying too much for their Internet any way. And they are pretty damn good players, wrecking it online in Battlefield and NHL.
Ping is not a problem, or lag spikes. If you provider's connections are good, you are getting a really fast Internet access for a fraction of a price of a landline.
SatoAilDarko
Member
Completely dropped in future models. Why would anyone buy a more expensive sku and the have to pay for a separate data plan when they can just tether to their phone?
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
do you really want to be the asshole playing on a shitty mobile connection lagging it up?
completely and logical are redundant words here, why waste of bandwidth like that?
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
So that's why all the carriers in the US have gone unlimited!
Jesus it's a fucking bloodbath between these corporations trying to get the consumer money
Who knew competition would be good!
Jesus it's a fucking bloodbath between these corporations trying to get the consumer money
Who knew competition would be good!
I played Monster Hunter on my mobile connection and there was zero lag. My ping was 50ms. Sorry your provider/area is shit.
Thats how lag works in Splatoon, everything is daisies and you're shooting people who stop all the time and walk out from around walls with the guns down, and on everyone else's screen you shoot them from behind walls and when you hit your squid button you disappear from the world and all bullet collision and happily swim through ink that no one else can see and re appear at your destination
Some of us live in countries with superior cellular connections. It worked fine in the test fire.
Is that you Don Mattrick?
mocolostrocolos
Member
That's great.
Why do you insist on paying twice for something you already have? The Switch hardware would become more expensive and you'd have to pay for another dataplan. There is no point having these if your phone already takes care of it.
Nintendo gets it. People like their smartphones. So instead of competing with it for user time, they formed a partnership. Switch and smartphone complement each other. Switch does console level games, on a decent size screen and proper controllers. The smartphone does internet and messaging.
I don't think this sounds as smart as you think it does, when you consider that the smartphone becomes a burden once the Switch is docked. There's really no excuse for the Switch not handling everything natively even if a smartphone companion app is useful on the go.
With regards to 4G though, I agree. There is no real reason for the Switch to support it because it's a wasted cost. Consumers already showed that they don't care for it when given the choice in the Vita.
D.Lo
Member
Yeah that sucks, you'll only be able to play 40 hours of Splatoon a month on that plan.
You realise the point is you only need this for when there is no wifi? Anyone planning on only using 4G to play online will probably organize something else.