Yo peeps. Juano here, with his reaction to an editorial posted a while back on IGN asking Nintendo to add voice chat to online Wii games. My first reaction? HELL YEAH WE WANT VOICE CHAT!!! STUPID NINTY NOT GOING THE MICROSOFT WAY!!! But then I thought about it to the point where having voice chat could ruin games like Brawl’s and Mario Kart’s online. And here’s why:

Once there was a game. This game was called “The Game”. Everybody liked The Game, it had everything you could want, AND it was the first ever game with voice chat!! How amazing!!! But then as more and more people played online, more and more people were growing frustrated and aggressive. While shooting others they screamed: “Take that you *&$@ stupid *@!$%!” and the sort. This soon turned for the worst and The Game was forever remembered in infamy.

My story about the Game isn’t necessarily made up. It actually happens everyday in real life. The game with the best online is the one I hear most complaints about: Halo 2. They say little 8 or 9 year olds play against you and when they lose they squeal at you and call you weird things and the such. Now imagine this: Mario Kart Wii is out and it has 8 player online WITH voice chat support. Good, right? You’re start the race and finish 1st place. Awesome, right? The people who you were playing against then start screaming profanities at you. Not so awesome, right? Now imagine this all the time. In fact, imagine it in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, my most awaited game. When I beat people, I don’t want to have them scream like idiots at me.

This is what causes Nintendo NOT to support voice chat. Since their main consumer is the younger people, they don’t want to get complaint from parents saying that their kids were insulted by random people playing an online game. And here is where I connect this to another problem: Friend Codes.

Friend Codes are what makes Nintendo’s online suck. Admit it, you know it. And having a different one for EVERY SINGLE GAME? That’s not right. That’s why I support EA Wii online games which use different servers and require only 1 EA name for all their games. Now think, wouldn’t this make it much easier? And then this is where I connect them. What if a third party company like EA, supported voice chat in their games? Yay or nay? I would actually say yay to this. Simply because EA games usually appeal to a broader audience, usually more mature than Nintendo’s (not to say they are kiddy). What if Nintendo supported voice chat only for people using FCs like on the DS? NO! Why? Lets be honest here, most of the friend codes I get are from random people online so I can replay against them various times without switching opponents. What if the guy is an @%&? Exactly.

SO there you have it. This is why Nintendo games cannot have online voice chatting.