All Stars Racing Transformed on Wii U has no voice chat, but PS3/360 versions do

[Lady Lilith]

http://segabits.com/blog/2012/10/22/sonic-all-stars-racing-transformed-on-wii-u-wont-support-voice-chat/

If you are planning on picking up Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on the Wii U, I might have some bad news. It seems that the Wii U version will not support voice chat. As you know, Wii U will be online chat capable, but will be done on a game-by-game basis and require you to get a third-party headset instead of using the Wii U GamePad microphone.

“We don’t support voice chat on Wii U for those reasons. One of the side effects of being a launch title basically. Does support it on PS3 and 360 though!”

- executive producer Steve Lycett

Seems the problem was time, since the game is a launch title it’s hard to get all the features you want into the game. Other launch games that do support online chat includeCall of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Mass Effect 3: Wii U Edition.

Unsurprising, coming from a Nintendo console.

[Parker]

So much for Nintendo being the choice for the "hardcore" fanbase, huh? Pretty pathetic actually and if Nintendo wants the system to do well the need to make sure developers put something as basic as voice chat in a multiplayer enabled game. I'll be getting this for the Vita anyway.

Parker