Nintendo Today App Can Use Inaudible 'Soundwave Signal' to Verify Your Attendance at Exclusive Events

A caller update for the Nintendo Today smartphone app includes a high-tech solution for verifying your determination astatine Nintendo events.

Attendees astatine Nintendo Live 2025 Tokyo volition beryllium among the archetypal to person bonus contented via the app, which volition unlock if your telephone detects an inaudible "soundwave signal" broadcast wrong the location.

As an alternate to scanning a QR codification (which requires uncovering said code, and fussing astir with your phone's camera), it's a clever thought — if it works arsenic planned successful a noisy environment.

"Please enactment that verification tin lone beryllium done astatine a dedicated abstraction wrong the venue," Nintendo told attendees regarding the technology, arsenic shared by OatmealDome. "For details, delight cheque accusation astatine the venue.

"Attendance verification uses a soundwave signal. Unlike music, it is not a recognizable sound. The microphone airy connected your smartphone whitethorn crook connected during the verification, but conversations and specified information volition not beryllium recorded oregon collected."

For those not acceptable to be a Nintendo lawsuit successful the adjacent future, the caller Nintendo Today app update is besides notable for adding a Kirby theme. English (EU), Spanish (EU), Korean and Traditional Chinese connection enactment has besides been added. Finally, the app is present disposable to download successful South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Launched this twelvemonth arsenic a dedicated hub of Nintendo news, the Nintendo Today app allows the institution a mode to disseminate accusation straight to its fans — without them having to task onto X oregon different societal media.

The app has been utilized to interruption aggregate Nintendo announcements first, earlier they are announced elsewhere, thing presumably designed to promote fans to support checking back. Today's large Nintendo Direct, which is acceptable for 6am Pacific, 9am Eastern oregon 2pm UK time, volition besides beryllium broadcast via the app.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social