We've gotten our first glimpse at how voice chat may work on Nintendo Switch, and it's not pretty. A headset from accessory-maker Hori looks fine enough on its own, but a diagram showing how it connects with the rest of the system appears pretty cumbersome.

A tweet from the Japanese Hori account shows the small headset, along with a audio splitter dongle. From the diagram, it appears that the Switch itself connects to the dongle, and then it has wires connecting to your smartphone and headset. That's three wires in all to link up two devices and a headset. It's not exactly what one would call "elegant."

Granted, this is a third-party device, and Nintendo may be saving a cleaner proprietary solution for itself. But we do know that whatever Nintendo has in mind for its service, it will require a smartphone for voice chat. This is one vision of how such a solution could work, and it could make for a big problem for Nintendo's roundabout solution.