@Gen Eric Gui

No fucking kidding, dude. It's a fucking VIDEO GAME. Note the word "game" in there.

"Oh, no! You can't talk to people? I'm gonna go kill myself, the depression is so bad!"

Sure, it would have been nice to have voice or text chat, but you know what? If you get THAT worked up about a game, you probably have too many psychological problems to be allowed to play games anyway.

@pedrovay2003: Exactly. Thank you.

why is nintendo tripping? They had FULL voice chat for diamond and pearl and nothing wrong went there. OMG they are so paranoid, can't they just ride on the "Game experience may change during online play" statement? Its made by the ESRB for a reason. And when is nintendo gonna smarten up and actually put parental controls to use? If they don't want their kids talking to chester the molester then they should have the option to turn chat off.

oh yeah and about what JJBro1 said. I have no idea why they offer voice chat for some ds games but wont do it for the wii. I honestly cant come up with any reason for it.

Sucks ass, VC isn't that important but if they add a feature like text chat, they should do it like MSN/ICQ/IRC... Well sucks to be a Wii owner like me, the game is still going to kick ass..

I don't get what everyone is complaining about. Who cares about voice chat ? Mario Kart Wii and, to a lesser degree but nonetheless, Super Smash Bros Brawl are in online mode designed for single-player all round. You see it, you smash it. There are not enough opportunities for team building, and even if you online-play in teams, those games aren't strategy-based enough to need voice chat. Voice chat is the quickest possibility today to get information across to your fellow players without having to get the finger off the trigger, but that has no real place in Mario Kart or Brawl - There are no enormous monster hordes that need careful monitoring. There are no missions that need exact timing and that can be planned upon. Both games are sufficiently chaotic to be never really alike - different map, different item drop, different whatever.
Maybe people complain because they think it makes their Wii less worth, maybe because they think Nintendo is backing down to Thompson & Friends, the last thing most gamers would ever even dare to consider wanting, or they think the Wii is too guimmick-y and needs more serious technology.

I, personally, am relieved that Nintendo has not even considered putting in that aggression potential spawning machine. What good would voice-chat do in Brawl or Kart ? Nothing but have annoying 13 year-old boys cuss and slur at you and feeling big, tough and manly because they can't see you and you can't see them and you don't sit next to them and smack them up when they start fapping at their owen "MAD SKILLZ!!!!1111oneoneelecen OMG UR MOMS A WHORE U SUCK U HAX".

Conclusion: Thank you, Nintendo, for avoiding the biggest awoker of the GIFT (Greater Internet Fuckwad Thory, which states: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad.)

I don't get what everyone is complaining about. Who cares about voice chat ? Mario Kart Wii and, to a lesser degree but nonetheless, Super Smash Bros Brawl are in online mode designed for single-player all round. You see it, you smash it. There are not enough opportunities for team building, and even if you online-play in teams, those games aren't strategy-based enough to need voice chat. Voice chat is the quickest possibility today to get information across to your fellow players without having to get the finger off the trigger, but that has no real place in Mario Kart or Brawl - There are no enormous monster hordes that need careful monitoring. There are no missions that need exact timing and that can be planned upon. Both games are sufficiently chaotic to be never really alike - different map, different item drop, different whatever.
Maybe people complain because they think it makes their Wii less worth, maybe because they think Nintendo is backing down to Thompson & Friends, the last thing most gamers would ever even dare to consider wanting, or they think the Wii is too guimmick-y and needs more serious technology.

I, personally, am relieved that Nintendo has not even considered putting in that aggression potential spawning machine. What good would voice-chat do in Brawl or Kart ? Nothing but have annoying 13 year-old boys cuss and slur at you and feeling big, tough and manly because they can't see you and you can't see them and you don't sit next to them and smack them up when they start fapping at their owen "MAD SKILLZ!!!!1111oneoneelecen OMG UR MOMS A WHORE U SUCK U HAX".

Conclusion: Thank you, Nintendo, for avoiding the biggest awoker of the GIFT (Greater Internet Fuckwad Thory, which states: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad.)

@ Zelnor: I'm assuming you've played Smash and Mario Kart with friends right? Most of the fun comes from playing with friends and talking a little trash. Nothing vulgar really or over the top, but enough to make it funny. Also in games like that last second turtle shells or a super lucky item drop can create amazing endings to games. Basically you're talking away a major part of what makes the multiplayer experience so much fun. So yeah stuff like this sucks.

Look at all the idiot apologists who still refuse to acknowledge that some people want to play and chat with THEIR FRIENDS. It isn't just about the random idiots you meet. Like I've stated before, I honestly feel nintendo has been dragging their feet so bad with online implimentation becuase they want to protect the public from their ridiculous fantards. And yes, I own a wii. And a 360. And at this point, even the system that I don't own(PS3) hasn't disappointed me as much as my wii.

The internet is serious business... with breaks for pederasty.

@XEROXM3: I'm from Germany. So no, I haven't played them. D= We are at the ass of the release schedules worldwide.
However, I do have to agree - It's nice to add a bit of life to the game via voice chat, as you know then that you're playing against real people.

Problem is, tell that to the pubescent egostrokers.

does nintendo have an official forum that we can move this over to

This doesn't really bother me considering I probably never would've used the texting anyway. Voice, on the other hand...

*facepalm*

I'm still going to buy the game, but I just can't see why they can't at least utilze voice or text chat for friend matches. ;_;

Gen Eric Gui all they would have to do is add voice chat an a functionality to disable any incoming text/voice for those who want to avoid the flaming. Honestly, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.

Also, troglodyte.

The gaming community should take a fucking stand and let Nintendo know that we don't want no broken online gamin'.

This is getting seriously riduculous and I am very close to putting my Wii off for sale. Don't have to stand shit like this with the PC.

...Okay, even I can't defend Nintendo on this one.

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I bet the game will be one floppies

Fuck you Nintendo. It's not fun to see one of the oldest video game companies fuck up so bad. Idiots.

This is why I laughed when Reggie slammed the Xbox 360.