Wii U will support in-game chat, but only through licensed headsets

Oh geeze Nintendo.

They dropped the ball on that one.

Sounds like bullshit to me

@3

Its right from Nintendo’s mouth so no bullshit.

@4 – Don’t worry. He’s just buying time before he finds a way to try to turn this into a positive. I’m sure pretty soon it’ll be “Why would anyone want to play with anything but the GamePad, anyway?”

Nintendo: Clueless about the core since 2006.

wow. this clearly takes the piss!

a) licensed only
b) wired!!!
c) controller mandatory

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@6: LOL

this truly blows. i certainly don´t want to buy another audio system!
i have 3 consoles hooked to the tv atm and the least thing i need is another headset lying around.

@5: there never was such a thing like people defending nintendo for the sake of defending them…only for good reasons, which there are plenty of, or if people piss over them with the kids games argument or other crap which just needs to be clarified. your imagination is running riot again here i guess.

Well this is massively foolish.

The thing has a mic on it but you have to buy another mic? foolish

There’s no wireless headset support of any type? foolish

Having to use “Licensed” products? foolish

It absolutely has to plug in to a controller you’re not necessarily using as opposed to directly hooking up to the console? foolish

@6 – I’d say it’s been way longer than 2006. I’d say it was since the moment they decided to stick with cartridges instead of CD’s, back with the N64.

This isn’t important. No one is going to use the pro controller on launch anyway.

Everyone will be preoccupied using the sweet tablet controller to play NIntendoland anyway. I’m also sure that you’ll be able to use unlicensed options too, seeing as its just going to be a mic. Prob similar to PS3.

Sooo…

…being able to use voice chat in-game isn’t important?

Is that what you’re trying to say?

Look when I’m playing Pokemon Battle Arena a year from now, do want to hear 30 year ole men screaming “I choose Pikachu!”? I do not.

Yeah, but what about the people who have friends?

@13, i’m not sure that WiiU fanbase is full of 30 year ole men that are huge fans of Pokemon.

I want to hear ye old “I FUCKED YOUR MOM YOU FAG” said by unmature voices while playing Call of Duty 29 on my brand new Wii U.

I think this is more important than the have-to-be-plugged-into-gamepad story:

“has not implemented universal support for in-game chat”

So I can’t chat to one of my friends when we’re both online? Does this mean there’s no party system either?
This was hinted at before (with Nintendo saying it was up to third parties to implement online), but I didn’t they they were that clueless.

Lmfao! Best comment vine this week.

The online will probably suck, now that all doubts are blown away .
A system with 3 sets of controllers (each working separately) and a non-unified online and no trophies/achievements. Yup, next 6 months will be amazing to watch, hearing how desperately NDF will try to spin this into something positive, but cant.

@17:

What this means is that Nintendo’s ‘new’ online system is as half baked and last-gen as it ever was.

Only a “select” group of titles are going to have something as basic as voice chat??

What a joke.

What makes it even more ridiculous is the token Miiverse, which is supposed to be some sort of serious attempt at a decent online system, where you can read people’s noobie questions about which button makes Mario jump, or something like that.

No wonder Elite doesn’t work! Don’t expect basic features from PS360 games to be available on Wii U any time soon.

@19, Say that to Sony with their PS3 when that brick launched for 600$ without anything.

@20, have you ever thought beyond your Call Of Duty fanboyism and Nintendo-hate that Elite can’t be launched there when WiiU have no decent CoD fanbase not to mention that Elite supports old CoD’s which again WiiU does not support. First of all Elite must offer decent value to the player which right now it can’t do obv on WiiU.

For your info, WiiU has more memory to support any current gen online infrastructure better than the competition right now.

But whatever really, your brain is infected with Latvia and Call Of Duty anyway.

@21

Sigh. I agreed with the first part of your post (PS3), but then you went into your normal bullshit in the second part.

lol cod scuks shitty sub hd res

@22, Moron, where is “Cod scuks and sub hd res” in my previous post? If you won’t find any you are an idiot and can GTFO really.

@21:

Boy, do you have an amazing ability to talk utter gibberish!

@24, Boy, do you have an a amazing ability to talk utter bullshit with CoD fanboyism sauce on it.

@23

I read between the lines bro!

@21
Yeah, after sony dropped their balls so hard with ps3 launch and 3ds launch, I guess ninty would learn a lesson, but I guess they dont.
And yeah, how pc sucks the most.

@25:

Why don’t you go and learn English, Mr 400 hours on MW2 in one summer.

LOOOOOOL!!!

@12

I was just responding in that way for Clupulas benefit.

This is pretty shitty if it’s the only way it’ll work.

It’s more likely it will change over time. There putting a lot into mii verse so they prob want people to use that at launch, it’s still a strange choice though.

Im pretty sure a wireless headset will be available pretty soon after launch to use with the pro controller.

@28

Dude, I think it was 500. And wasn’t it Black Ops?

@29

Ur, you’ve nothing to back up either of those statements. Sony never added cross-title voice chat to PS3. They would’ve announced a wireless headset to use with the pro if it existed, no?

^ It was probably both!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=3lGWgO6vHEs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3lGWgO6vHEs

Of course, derission aside… It’ll probably still sell bucketloads. Especially after the Ninty magic kicks in.

And by magic, I mean the inevitable post-launch price cut

nice derailing here!

@30

No, but there’s it’s not a problem from a technical perspective, that’s the difference.

I think it’d be good to wait and see what features Mii Universe has before getting your panties in a twist.

There’s some obvious steps in the right direction with the online on the 3DS and things like Unity on the Wii U.

Also a COD developer thinks you can use any headphone with a MIC, that hasn’t been confirmed, but NIntendo would want you to use licensed products anyway, so it’s prob true.

Miiverse features described here: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=f3WrVM-Z71c&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Df3WrVM-Z71c

@35

Eh? How do you know it’s not a technical issue?

@36

Sounds pretty damn cool to me!

Lots of interesting new features here, can’t wait to try and draw a big cock and balls and try and get it past the Nintendo censors!

@37

Because it easily contains enough memory to get cross game chat working.

Judging by the video that G1GAHURTZ just posted, it looks like the tablet pad and Miiverse is the main focus for a while.

@38:

LOOOOL!

I think 90% of the drawings will be something like that.

Btw, Kotaku speculate that the reason for wired headsets is that wireless ones may interfere with the gamepad signal, as it has a whole load of data to send. Way more than a normal controller.

If that’s the case, then you can forget about any official wireless controllers.

@40

Iwata looks like he knows that the video!

I bet their crapping their pants at Nintendo Network, I hope their ready for a metric shit-ton of:

Cock and Balls
F-Bombs
Swastika’s
Pictures of Mario banging Peach
etc.. etc..

Maybe we should have a VG247 competition:

Who can get the first classic ‘cock and balls’ picture on Miiverse!?

E.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/mar/24/penis-drawing-roof-google

@41, that doesn’t sound all that credible to me, there is more spectrum available for consumer electronics these days.

Not the best of news….but personaly I really dont care. That big controllermdrags me to it like a bug to the light….