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BluGamer23 on 19 October 2012

Its not game related and thus I have a cell phone for that. Its pointless. If I have a headset its for in-game communication... not random chatting with someone else. If that's the case, I call them or text them. Hell, I don' teven want to have a random convo with someone else when I'm playing a game... I'm playing a game and want to focus on that.

As long as I can chat with people in game, that is perfect. I never understood why people made it such an issue with PS3 vs 360.


This I agree. The wiiU will sell regardless even if forum dwellers think this is an issue lol this is probably not even in most peoples mind in buying the wiiU.. 

..OH NOES.. No cross game voice chat!!.. Im not getting a wiiU.. as I cant talk to anyone while busy playing zombieU !.. yeh.. about that



 

 

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Hynad on 19 October 2012
BluGamer23 said:

Its not game related and thus I have a cell phone for that. Its pointless. If I have a headset its for in-game communication... not random chatting with someone else. If that's the case, I call them or text them. Hell, I don' teven want to have a random convo with someone else when I'm playing a game... I'm playing a game and want to focus on that.

As long as I can chat with people in game, that is perfect. I never understood why people made it such an issue with PS3 vs 360.


This I agree. The wiiU will sell regardless even if forum dwellers think this is an issue lol this is probably not even in most peoples mind in buying the wiiU.. 

..OH NOES.. No cross game voice chat!!.. Im not getting a wiiU.. as I cant talk to anyone while busy playing zombieU !.. yeh.. about that


It's not an issue that will prevent me from getting the Wii-U.  Why must you always see in black and white?
Just because people voice their discontentment over some aspects of the console (power, voice chat, lack of 1080p in most games, etc...) doesn't mean they hate on Nintendo, or aren't going to buy the system.  Some of you need to tone down that "YOU DA HATER" shit already. 



BluGamer23 on 19 October 2012
Hynad said:
BluGamer23 said:

Its not game related and thus I have a cell phone for that. Its pointless. If I have a headset its for in-game communication... not random chatting with someone else. If that's the case, I call them or text them. Hell, I don' teven want to have a random convo with someone else when I'm playing a game... I'm playing a game and want to focus on that.

As long as I can chat with people in game, that is perfect. I never understood why people made it such an issue with PS3 vs 360.


This I agree. The wiiU will sell regardless even if forum dwellers think this is an issue lol this is probably not even in most peoples mind in buying the wiiU.. 

..OH NOES.. No cross game voice chat!!.. Im not getting a wiiU.. as I cant talk to anyone while busy playing zombieU !.. yeh.. about that


It's not an issue that will prevent me from getting the Wii-U.  Why must you always see in black and white?
Just because people voice their discontentment over some aspects of the console (power, voice chat, lack of 1080p in most games, etc...) doesn't mean they hate on Nintendo, or aren't going to buy the system.  Some of you need to tone down that "YOU DA HATER" shit already. 

maybe you need to balance your tone more.. i read more negative wiiU comments from you than positive ones.. (only on threads i visit.. i dont stalk u.. or do i?..hmm.)

edit: actually I dont remember anything positive you say about the wiiU.. cant recall any



 

 

d21lewis on 19 October 2012

Insane. I hope they at least thought of blue tooth support.



d21lewis on 19 October 2012
kitler53 said:
lilbroex said:
So the final verdict. The only people who care about this news are the people who never liked Nintendo and never planned to get a Wii U to begin with. The people who were planning the get one weren't even expecting this feature to exist in the first place.

Journalists just skipped right over the fact that it has voice chat capability and went straight into the negative things they could find around it.

so i read a lot of posts about out CoD will be soo much better on wii U because you can have one person on the gamepad and one on the TV.    ..but now we find out that the guy not on the gamepad can't have voice chat.  ..not sure how much online multiplayer you've played but voice chat is sort of critical to the experiance.  if the second guy can't be on voice the 2 player option is fairly gimped.

..and wii had voice chat capability.  having voice chat capability in of itself isn't impressive as it became standard about 5-6 years ago when  both sony and nintedo followed MS's lead.  but nintendo promised a roboust online network for the wii U and cross game chat is something xbl has already done for years so it's a bit conerning that nintendo isn't meeting the established baseline.

but hey, you just skipped right over the legiment critiques and went straight pretending that nintendo is god. 

Maybe I was doing something wrong but, when I play COD split screen on the 360, only one of us can use voice chat, anyway.  Still a dumb move on Nintendo's part, if you ask me, but it's something I'm already used to.



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oniyide on 19 October 2012
superchunk said:
Kresnik said:
superchunk said:
Maybe I'm crazy but what's the benefit to chat with someone you're not in the same game with?


Have you never been on Skype with someone while you're playing different games on Steam?  Or even just sent messages to someone who's in a different game to you on PSN/XBL/PC?

I suppose the premise is that many people keep in touch across media such as games nowardays.  As much as I'd love to continue couch gaming with the friends I grew up with; lives move on, people move off to University or new jobs elsewhere.  Gaming habits don't change though, and being able to keep in touch through games is a good idea, in my opinion.  If you're limited to only talking to each other when you're both in the same game, it's a bit of a drawback if one of you wants to play FIFA and the other wants to play LittleBigPlanet.  I know this is a problem I often come across on PS3.  We send messages, sure, but it's clunky and nowhere near as fun as simply talking to each other.

At least, that's my take on it.  PS3 doesn't have cross-game chat and I 'get by' without it, but I sure would prefer to have it given the option (which isn't an option on PS3 due to RAM or whatever).

Its not game related and thus I have a cell phone for that. Its pointless. If I have a headset its for in-game communication... not random chatting with someone else. If that's the case, I call them or text them. Hell, I don' teven want to have a random convo with someone else when I'm playing a game... I'm playing a game and want to focus on that.

As long as I can chat with people in game, that is perfect. I never understood why people made it such an issue with PS3 vs 360.


on this subject i agree with you 100%. but people do care about it, so Ninty should have it in since the other two have it.



Hynad on 19 October 2012
BluGamer23 said:
Hynad said:
BluGamer23 said:

Its not game related and thus I have a cell phone for that. Its pointless. If I have a headset its for in-game communication... not random chatting with someone else. If that's the case, I call them or text them. Hell, I don' teven want to have a random convo with someone else when I'm playing a game... I'm playing a game and want to focus on that.

As long as I can chat with people in game, that is perfect. I never understood why people made it such an issue with PS3 vs 360.


This I agree. The wiiU will sell regardless even if forum dwellers think this is an issue lol this is probably not even in most peoples mind in buying the wiiU.. 

..OH NOES.. No cross game voice chat!!.. Im not getting a wiiU.. as I cant talk to anyone while busy playing zombieU !.. yeh.. about that


It's not an issue that will prevent me from getting the Wii-U.  Why must you always see in black and white?
Just because people voice their discontentment over some aspects of the console (power, voice chat, lack of 1080p in most games, etc...) doesn't mean they hate on Nintendo, or aren't going to buy the system.  Some of you need to tone down that "YOU DA HATER" shit already. 

maybe you need to balance your tone more.. i read more negative wiiU comments from you than positive ones.. (only on threads i visit.. i dont stalk u.. or do i?..hmm.)

edit: actually I dont remember anything positive you say about the wiiU.. cant recall any

Except for this here thread, what negativity have I shown toward Nintendo in the forums? 

Are you reffering to that 1080p/60fps thread? Because I haven't been negative toward Nintendo in that thread at all. But Yeah, I don't go and sing praises for Nintendo at every corner no matter what as if they were some godly entity like some people do here.

I like Nintendo.  I'm a HUGE fan of Metroid (Super Metroid being my all time favourite game ever, followed closely by Metroid Prime. And yes, I'm among those who greatly enjoyed Other M. More so than Prime 2 and 3!), Zelda (Wind Waker and ALTTP being my 2 favourites. Followed closely by Twilight Princess. SS was good, but not as good as Twilight in my book) and Mario (Galaxy 1 and 2 being my all time best Mario games, next to World). So really, when people call me a hater because I correct innacuracies, and address trollish posts against the PS3 and XBox 360 (some people here are really over-compensating and grasping at straws when it comes to putting Nintendo on a pedestal next to those 2 consoles... Like they have some kind of inferiority complex or something), I'm not one to just accept that people will talk shit and lie about things they either don't know properly, or just plain lie to make themselves and Nintendo look better for some absurd reason.

I love gaming. I like the 360, the PS3,the Wii and my PC.  And I'm sure I'll have a heck of a good time with the Wii-U as well. If that makes me a hater... I don't know what to say anymore.



superchunk on 19 October 2012
KylieDog said:
superchunk said:
Maybe I'm crazy but what's the benefit to chat with someone you're not in the same game with?


Not being antisocial.

I'm very social. But if I'm playing a shooter or someother game where I want chat... I am using it for in-game scenarios. 

I don't want to be talking to a buddy of mine about random chatter when I'm playing a game. I like to focus on the game or the convo. I simply don't see the interest in doing both at the same time.

If I'm having a random convo, I'll likely pause the game anyways or ask to talk later as I'm busy. Additionally, I like to play games that require focus and thought... kinda why a lot of them are solo experiences primarily anyways.

However, I do think from a design point of view, Nintendo should have made VOIP a primary function of the OS. MS will have that and it should be obvious Sony will. Now 3rd parties will have to build a whole extra layer for their game when its given to them by Nintendo's competitors. Just a bad design.

But I still see very little value in cross-game chat. In game chat is a must. Being able to pause and have a chat (video or not) is awesome and shows WiiU has chat at some layer, but that part is likely just in miiverse.



S.T.A.G.E. on 20 October 2012
crissindahouse said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Nintendo can survive without voice chat. Its Microsoft and Sony who need it.

sure and why don't give some people what they want? consumers like me would like to have it and it wouldn't be really a problem so why give me less as they could to please me less? that will mean i will play multi-plat games on xbox and not wii u if the controller won't make a huge difference. if they think that's a good idea to have a disadvantage in this case for multi-plat games on their console...


I am sure when the new consoles come out they will already be at a graphical disadvantage. This is what we've been talking about for months.



osed125 on 20 October 2012

Something that I didn't think about when I made my first post on this thread...it actually makes for the mic on the GamePad not be used for chat. 

Think about it, the mic is on the controller, that means you will have to hear all the clicking of other players buttons, obviously do to their proximity, which needless to say, will be annoying.

So it makes sense to have a headset instead of the GamePad mic by default, you can obviously used it for video chat and other stuff but not in-game. (Unless the developers want to I guess)



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