Wii-U: No "system based" voice chat

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crissindahouse said:

NightDragon83 said:
Let's be honest here for a minute, folks. We all know how PSN and especially XBL can at times deteriorate into high-pitched scream fests and contests to see who can lob the most 4 letter words or racial slurs at others, especially during popular multiplayer games like Halo and COD for instance, right?

OK... now imagine playing a game like COD on the Wii U with voice chat available right out of the box via the Gamepad or a packed-in mic so the vast majority of Nintendo's primary audience has access to it. *shudders*

Trust me, you'll be glad Nintendo decided to go this route.

hmm ok and why is it so hard to implemet a function to disable voice chat or have a voice-chat volume control from 0-10 or something? its not as if you have to listen to those people, disable voice chat and you don't have to use voice chat and don't have to listen to people using it.

i mean, do you really hear people screaming even if you don't have to? that makes no sense to me.

every complaint about those screaming people you have to listen to was always unjustified, i never understood why people complain about something they don't have to agonize as long as they don't want to listen to others and have one idiot under them but that is another problem where you simply have to mute that single guy and that would be the same problem on wii u then.

Nintendo has a strong stake in the kids/family market though. So something like voice chat ... it wasn't really unpredictable that they were going to limit the way it can be used.

The system could have 10GB dedicated to the OS and it wouldn't matter. It's a matter of principal to Nintendo (not saying I personally agree with it).