Wii-U: No "system based" voice chat

[Proclus]

happydolphin said:

Proclus said:

Sorry, but irrelevant, and I have no trouble understanding it, Nintendo is a game publisher and hardware maker that just got of a high with the Wii and DS, lack of money is no excuse.

6 years on and their are plenty of services, companies and employees that have done it years ago, it's not like voip is a gargantuan monster that's extremely hard for any hardware company to tackle anymore, especially when they've had 6 years to contemplate and work on it.

No bro, you don't understand it. First of all it has nothing to do with the time it takes to contemplate.

VOIP has a kick-off cost that Nintendo may not want to spend, for what return it gives. The servers cost a lot of money, and the service is high-bandwidth, so they need some very solid infrastructure there (networking equipment, geo-scattering and all). It's not something Nintendo CAN do I don't even think.

For such an insignificant feature, I don't think they are interested in the costs.

I do understand mate, that Skype (7 years before acquisition by MS), steam (Never been a hardware company so far, way smaller than Nintendo) etc have done it for quite a while now.

Nintendo didn't do it because they didn't care to.