Nintendo Switch Topic; #byebyenx

[Zero Kirby]

Like it or not, a lot of kids play Nintendo games. Imagine an 8 year old hearing all kinds of abusive language directed at him. Being bullied to the point of tears.

Saying this like it's not the eight-year-olds that are hurling said abusive language at their peers

And a lot of kids play T or M-rated games because their parents are dumb. And go on the Internet and trade friend codes on forums and also with "friends of friends who are totally cool man"

I'm not saying it's okay, because I agree with the idea of Friends Only voice chat as long as the friends system isn't too complicated (which was something the Wii U got right, to be fair), I'm just saying that eight-year-old kids could be themselves capable of said bullying and that the Friends Only voice chat isn't a perfect system. Kids will find a way around it, and parents should be watching kids that young whenever they're interacting with other people over the Internet and educating them on the risks of doing so. While Nintendo should have a moderation system I don't think they should be held personally responsible for voice chat abuse in their games, especially considering how common it is in modern games and applications. That'd be like saying it's the VG Resource's fault somebody insulted me in a topic or something.

(As I recall, the popular and online-community-friendly Animal Crossing: City Folk was one of the rare Nintendo games that had voice chat... as was Metroid Prime: Hunters, and it was very easy for me to trade friend codes in that game with absolute strangers when I was younger. I actually got in trouble for it, too.)