Nintendo’s Switch 2 C button is a Discord-like GameChat feature

Now that Nintendo has yet fixed america the rundown connected the Switch 2, we tin yet reply 1 of the biggest questions we had astir the caller console: “what’s the woody with that ‘C’ button?”

The button, contiguous connected the close Joy-Con straight beneath the location button, is quadrate and marked with a “C.” The mysterious caller fastener was shown concisely successful the video debuting the Switch backmost successful February and was contiguous successful each mock-up and leak of the console. In the Switch 2 Direct, Nintendo yet revealed the intent of the button, a caller diagnostic called GameChat.

As its sanction implies, GameChat enables Switch 2 players to pass utilizing the console’s built-in microphone. Nintendo noted however the Switch 2’s microphone volition diagnostic inheritance sound filtering to guarantee that GameChat calls travel done clearly. And successful summation to giving radical a mode to speech straight to 1 another, GameChat besides features surface sharing functionality that volition let you to broadcast your gaming to friends connected radical calls. Notably, you volition not person to beryllium playing the aforesaid crippled successful portion utilizing GameChat, meaning that radical wrong a telephone volition beryllium capable to play and screen-share antithetic titles simultaneously.

The GameChat diagnostic represents a large measurement guardant successful Nintendo’s societal gaming offerings. Of the 3 large manufacturers, Nintendo was the lone 1 that did not person a mode for players to pass with their friends via the console. Shortly aft the motorboat of the archetypal Switch, Nintendo released a mobile app that fto users enactment successful dependable chat for prime games, but it’s awkward to usage an app for a diagnostic that comes modular successful different consoles.