Nintendo has gone to great lengths to ensure Switch 2’s new GameChat feature is a safe experience for everyone, but there’s apparently been an oversight.
Players are reporting the new feature effectively transcribing their conversations with the speech-to-text function and it seems naughty and offensive words aren’t even censored. As GamesRadar+ confirms, you can drop an “f-bomb” and the system has no problems relaying it back to you in writing:
GamesRadar: “Our own Rollin Bishop, who took to his own brand-new Switch 2 and spent some time cursing at it only to find it displayed those words right back to him. And to our brand director Sam Loveridge, who signed up as the swearing test dummy.”
If you do want to see what’s being said in written form while you’re chatting online with friends and family, you can activate speech-to-text via the Switch 2’s accessibility settings. Jokes aside, additional accessibility features like this are always welcome, it just seems Nintendo might have to take another look at this.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened on the Nintendo front – with the company updating the Switch’s “bad words” list in certain firmware updates.
