Rumor: Wii U voice chat to be game specific, require third party peripheral headset
GamePad microphone will not work with voice chat
According to Kotaku, a conversation was held with a Nintendo representative that confirmed voice chat on the Wii U, or perhaps a lack thereof. The word seems to be that the Wii U will not feature voice chat in any sort of official capacity, rather, that third parties will be responsible for adding it on their own. On top of that, voice chat will not use the built-in GamePad microphone that was previously used in an advertisement for voice chat. Instead, a third party headset peripheral will be required. Welcome to the next generation.
Despite that, there are a few games releasing in the Wii U launch window, including Assassin's Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, and Mass Effect, that will include voice chat capabilities. It's rather telling that only the biggest of blockbusters will be launching with the tech. How smaller multiplayer games deal with the hurdle will be proven with time, but we could be facing a realistic possibility that they can't afford developing the tech.
The Wii U is less than a month away from launch, but there are still many details yet to be fully released. It wouldn't be a Nintendo console unless there were some near-required peripherals needed for the best experience, of course.
Source: Kotaku
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Plus if you're using a Wii-U Pro Controller then its understandable that you would need a headset to voice chat.
And I thought everybody freaked out when Nintendo used a non-headset mic (Wii Speak) with the Wii, so why is everyone so upset now that they use headsets? We'll still get video chat from the home menu with the internal mic.
Finally, most of the other launch games aren't online multiplayer enabled to begin with, either being single player adventures or local multi-only, so I don't think this has much to do with how hard it is to run voice chat.