Conduit dev wants Wii voice-chat

Dan Kaufman, the lead game designer of Wii first-person shooter The Conduit, has said that he hopes to include voice chat in multiplayer.

“We are exploring the possibility for voice chat,” Kaufman said in a QA posted on the game’s official website. “It is too early to make any promises along these lines, but we agree it could make the game even better!”

To state the obvious, the main problem with voice chat on the Wii is there isn’t a microphone to chat into. We’d assume then that The Conduit would have to ship with a microphone peripheral to do it. And you’d have to somehow get that past Nintendo.

Kaufman also said the game will include three competitive multiplayer online modes, a single-player experience that would cater to several types of first person shooter players, and would only include one “mini-game.”

Sounds promising.

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  • Stephen

    that is awesome the wii is getting up there with 360 and ps3

  • Jamie

    all they have to do is make a bluetooth headdset that connects to either the Wii’s bluetooth that the remotes connect to or plug in a reciever to the USB port.

  • http://www.youtube.com/rothsothy Roth

    A bundle with microphone would be neat if Wii doesn’t already have a firmware update for USB headset support.
    I’d prefer a wireless bluetooth headset with a USB dongle.

    Who knows, maybe Nintendo will announce their own headset for Wii at E3 or something before the game hit stores.
    \:D/

    // Roth