Why I think Nintendo left out cross game chat

[Andrespetmonkey]

sethnintendo said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

But why not just add it? There's no negatives to having CGC. I have no idea what's involved in the process of implementing it but surely it's far from a big task?

I'm sure they can add it later.  Some one not buying the Wii U solely on this feature probably wasn't going to buy it anyways.  Remember Wii added the sd card channel, and increased it to SDHC during the middle of the Wii's lifetime.  Also, the 3DS didn't even have a eshop at launch.  Having cross game chat on day 1 of launch isn't a big fucking deal.  It is just a small minority that acts like it is the holy grail of gaming.

Oh yeah I'm sure they will to. It's just a little odd that it isn't there at all.

I don't see the big deal as well, I never used it on my 360, it's just that there are millions who do use it and the hardware is certainly not limiting in any way so again, it's just odd that they wouldn't add it, because why not? It's not just CGC as well, it's the awkward way we're going to be using a mic on the Wii U that's more annoying.