You would have thought the much loved friend code system would be enough but Nintendo have revealed that Mario Kart Wii will not only lack voice chat, but also a fully fledged text-chat system.
Instead they have implemented a device where you can communicate via choosing pre-written options from a list, most likely meaning such in depth conversation topics as “Whoa this is fun!” and “I’ll get you back for that!”.

Good news for the Jack Thompsons of the world and bad news for fans of video games. I can only imagine that this decision has been implemented so as to foil the half baked plans of would-be paedophiles.

From what we’ve seen over the past year I wouldn’t place place any bets on Nintendo getting the hang of this internet thing for quite a while.

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  By greyhound, 3 March, 2008 @ 10:27 pm

  that guy’s fucking mental GRRR

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