All Channels
Popular
120°

Devil’s Third Does Not Have Voice Chat, Due to “Maxed out Bandwidth”

In a recent Facebook post, Tomonobu Itagaki, the director of Devil’s Third, announced that the game will not have voice chat.

Read Full Story >>
nintendoenthusiast.com
NintySonySoft3946d ago

This is nothing new to nintendo fans lol... No VC in splatoon or this hopefully NX gives us a Party Chat function of some sort.

LOL_WUT3946d ago

Well at least he gave us an honest answer unlike the Splatoon dev who supposedly had his feelings hurt over some obscenities while playing a game online. Like you said hopefully Nintendo is aware of this so that it doesn't happen with their next system ;)

Concertoine3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

It doesn't sound honest to me. Blops 2 and COD ghosts were on wii u with 24 players and voice chat.

MH3U had 4 players and voice chat and the ability to go into miiverse while in the lobby.

Sounds like they were just lazy programmers and want to get this game out and move on.

Big_Game_Hunters3946d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the reason a lot of Wiiu games don't have VC. Nintendo better fix this come NX.

MasterCornholio3946d ago

The PS3 and Xbox 360 had voice chat in loads of games so I don't understand why this one doesn't have it.

remixx1163946d ago

I huh umm......."sigh" I don't care anymore.

3946d ago
FallenAngel19843946d ago

Itagaki is so full of BS. The PS3 launch game Resistance: Fall of Man had 40 players and voice chat. Its sequel Resistance 2 had 60 players and voice chat. MAG had a whopping 256 players and voice chat.

Wii U not implementing such a basic feature on a standard 16-player game is extremely laughable.

_-EDMIX-_3946d ago

How do you know its him and not the system's own design? Its not as if that is even a standard feature on Wii U..

Munnkyman3946d ago

Because other games on the console have voice chat

Sciurus_vulgaris3946d ago

I was just about to point out how several PS3/360 games had equivalent or greater player counts yet had voice chat. Nintendo probably didn't want voice chat in the game due to "nintenlogic". Voice chat has been a standard feature in MP games for a decade or more and Nintendo should accept this.

freshslicepizza3946d ago

those games also had dedicated servers which allowed so many players because you are not dependant on the host's bandwidth. what's troubling about this latest news is how games like call of duty can host 16 players on peer to peer networks with full voice chat. so i'm not sure what's going on.

Show all comments (16)
70°

Hyrule Warriors, Pokken Tournament & Devil's Third running on WiiU emulator, CEMU 1.11.2 available

CEMU 1.11.2 is now available to Patreon members. Below you can find Pokken Tournament, Hyrule Warriors and Devil's Third running on the PC thanks to CEMU.

Read Full Story >>
dsogaming.com
230°

Nintendo Officially Shuts Down Server Support for Devil's Third

Nintendo has officially taken down the servers for Wii U shooter Devil's Third developed by Valhalla Game Studios.

Read Full Story >>
twinfinite.net
Majin-vegeta3410d ago

Talk about a kick in the nutter butters

naruga3410d ago (Edited 3410d ago )

this game creator payed his idiocy to change the development for exclusive release on a dying hopeless console with the best way ....the game was generally good i liked it and was the closest thing to a hardcore Ninja Gaiden we could get on new consoles ....but literaly its creator was idiot as f..k to undermine his game (it was obviously downgraded for Wii u) and release it exclusively on a underpowered system for some cash,destroyed his name in a moment

rjason123409d ago (Edited 3409d ago )

Oh boo hoo. Someone didn't get a game to come to their system.

@Edmix
Believe me I know the feeling haha, just pushing out a similar statement many others make, just cause.

ShaunCameron3409d ago (Edited 3409d ago )

@ rjason

Apparently.

@ XisThatKid

How did they ask for it? You know the company responsible for the engine used to make the OG game went under forcing Itagaki to scrap it and start over, right? Not to mention THQ, its original publisher, eventually withdrawing support before going under. As for it becoming a Wii U exclusive, Nintendo was the one willing to help Itagaki with the funding to finish making the game.

_-EDMIX-_3409d ago

This is easily one of the stupidest investments I've ever seen any company ever make for an exclusive by a third party. I'm surprised you think the game is any good at all because I don't really believe the Wii U made this game bad, believe it was going to be bad regardless of where it was. The Wii U has a handful of really great games please do not blame the hardware for how crappy this game actually is. To my understanding when you create a game for a specific piece of Hardware your job is to adapt. So do not blame the hardware for why this game was horrible blame the developer for even downgrading the game in the first place as opposed to adapting to their situation. If you have to downgrade a game so significantly that it begins to affect the design and quality you're probably not supposed to be downgrading it in the first place to such a platform. I don't blame the platform in this respect I blame the developer because they chose to continue despite knowing the hardware differences. The regular Wii U exclusives don't have that problem because they were made to actually work on that platform...

@rjason- could be because it sounds to me like he basically likes the game but he's angry at the decision of it being exclusive somewhere else

XisThatKid3409d ago (Edited 3409d ago )

I have not felt so selfish about a game before. I like many waited and waited patiently since this games release and out of no where Wii U exclusive. At the time i didn't have a Wii u and honestly i wanted it for ps3 but that never happened nor for 4. Anyway i honestly am glad this happened. Save for the innocent dev and people involved But i never wanted a game to fail so badly. Not to mention when i finally played it i think it sucks imho. I'm fine with exclusives but when a game's announced for your console or platform of choice then retracted they're asking for it.

bouzebbal3409d ago

he had no big name to start with.. this same guy did the same to DOA4 and Ninja Gaiden for 360 and in the end he talks s### about Team Ninja about NG3 and DOA5. He's a loser !

+ Show (2) more repliesLast reply 3409d ago
blackblades3410d ago

Ikr it looked interesting in the beginning before it became an nintendo exclusive. Don't know what happened when it became an exclusive.

_-EDMIX-_3409d ago

Who knows , it was probably always going to be bad.

Ravenor3409d ago

A lot happens when a game gets developed. A proof of concept demo or pre rendered video being received well doesn't necessarily equate to a game game being good.

3409d ago
BLKxSEPTEMBER3409d ago

I'm still looking to buy a copy at a reasonable price.

ocelot073409d ago

Depends on where you are located. Here in the UK you can pick this up for around £12.

BLKxSEPTEMBER3409d ago

I'm in California. I haven't seen a hard copy yet.

xMANB3ARP1G3409d ago

bro you wont they made so few copies they are mostly locked in cages atm in ppls collections waiting for the value to skyrocket.

BLKxSEPTEMBER3409d ago

Yeah that's what I figured.

xMANB3ARP1G3409d ago

i only say that because im in the same boat all physical copies near me were scooped up day one and ebay had a field day

alfcrippinjr3409d ago

and this is why we should not support nintendo any more
they done it with the wii and they killed the ds off for no reason.

total bad for business

ShaunCameron3409d ago

Um. You can still get the main D3rd game, albeit digitally. The only thing they killed here was the online multiplayer.

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory3409d ago

Wait why are peopole acting like they care now? You didn't when it was released.

gangsta_red3409d ago

Yea, I haven't heard a peep or a whisper of this game since its debut.

gamer78043409d ago

its the principle of it, i don't like seeing any games shut down so quickly

Chaos_Order3409d ago

I don't think Itagaki is crazy for making a Wii U exclusive.

I think he's crazy for pushing out a half baked, flawed as all hell, generic gore fest on the Wii U without making use of any of the console's specific features, and throwing his toys out of the pram when people criticise it.

Show all comments (28)
80°

The ups, downs and future of Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third

Tomonobu Itagaki, outspoken former leader of Tecmo's Team Ninja and current leader of Valhalla Game Studios, has spent the last eight years of his life working on the action game Devil's Third.

PhoenixUp3457d ago

Sucks to spend eight years on a project only to have it flop

MilkMan3457d ago

Love the interview. He's a great developer and I liked Devils Third.