Super Mario Maker 2 will not let you play online with friends

Nintendo unveiled the new Cooperative and Cooperative four-player online modes of Super Mario Maker 2 earlier this month, and the company has now confirmed that players will only be able to meet online with random people. , not with their friends.

Earlier in the day, Nintendo World Report announced that a Nintendo Treehouse representative had told him at a press event last week that the game did not allow players to make friends. with friends online. The only way to play with people you know is to do it locally.

YouTube channel GameXplain polled Nintendo about the NWR report and received the following statement:

"It's true.In the current state of the game, you can not create online pressure groups.You can only play online with randoms.You can always get together with friends and play with the local game.You are free to play four players on a Nintendo Switch system.You can also always invite your friends to submit your creations, integrate them with course IDs and forward them to your Maker profile. "

According to GameXplain, although friends can play together online courses on the same Switch, they can not create an online match with other people. So, if you and another person want to participate together in an online course, you can not pair to replace the other two slots.

This is a strange restriction considering that many other major Nintendo multiplayer games on the Switch have a way of playing online with your friends. In Splatoon 2 you can join friendly matches or organize private battles online. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, just select a friend who is running online to join him. Even in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, whose online configuration is far from imagined, you create online personal arenas that your friends can join.

Nintendo also put a lot of effort to emphasize Mario Marker 2Multiplayer potential. Earlier this month, the company announced the Super Mario Maker 2 By invitation 2019, a selected group of players will compete at E3 in competitive multiplayer mode.

According to NWR, if Nintendo did not allow online matchmaking with friends, it was a way for players to work together to improve their rankings in the competitive rankings of the game. However, as NWR pointed out, the Online cooperative mode of the game has no rankings, and pairing with friends is not allowed either in this mode.

Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for Kotaku for more comment.