To be fair, nobody is forced to buy Splatoon and suffer its lack of voice chat either.

Can't you guys just stop and go back to your coowadooties? This got to the point that the problem is obviously not lack of voice chat but the desire to find something to hate in this game.

People have been wanting all sorts of different things. The Nintendo fanbase is as diverse as any other fanbase. I personally am glad that there is no voice chat option. Its not a tactical shooter. Its supposed to be a fun shooting game for the whole family.

Nobody is forcing you onto this website or any other webisties that want to complain about Nintendo being lazy developers

Because Nintendo fans have never been outspoken about anything Nintendo has ever done.

Nope. Not once.

Voice chat half of a game confirmed. I prefer to have lots of frame drops and bugs, that's not so half finished. 

Nintendo fans are complaining, we are not a bunch of mute people. I'm really tired of this... 

I feel you're pretty spot on with that notion.

For all the shooters I've played through my life the majority of them have been filled with angst and swears, hell even with text chat you're not safe.

It just seems like complaining for the sake of complaining, Skype and other software exists on mobiles, tablets and PC, if you don't have either of those 3 then I don't know why you've got a Wii U.

The guy in the video a huge Nintendo fan so its not hate. And again just because its negative doesn't mean its an attack.

This is just it. The purpose of this thread is not to talk about ways in which Splatoon would be better by voice chat; it's simply to find a bone to pick with Nintendo about anything and ride it to death. We get it...many people don't like Nintendo. Well guess what...they've only sold 10 million units...why exactly do we still care? It's not affecting the voice chat in PS/MS games, last time I checked at least. 

It's pretty useless to argue this. I dislike voice chats, so I find it kinda nice people don't expect me to have it on. But some people are just borderline or histrionic and feel the absolute NEED to talk, gossip, shout, whatever. For these people, having voice chat is better. The thing is, Nintendo might have actually researched about this and figured it would be better to not have the option(as i think they should do), as in being better for players' overall needs. The game was not made for you alone, no matter how much you like Nintendo or voice chat. Just accept it.