Weekend Gamin’: It’s Not VoIP
Happy Friday, everyone. Get yourself through just one more day and you’ve got two nights of late night gaming ahead of you. I’ll probably be playing a little less Crackdown, sprinkled with some DDR Universe (for a review next week) and some Killzone Liberation if time allows. What will you guys be playing?
I’m sure you’ve read the wondrous news that Nintendo has decided to include voice chat in their upcoming Pokemon game. Unfortunately, when referring to the DS, no one is calling it voice chat. For some unknown reason, it’s chic to call it VoIP. We don’t call it VoIP on the 360, or on the PS2, PS3 or the PSP but on the DS, get it right, it’s VoIP.
Is it VoIP? Yes, it’s voice over the internet so technically it’s VoIP. That’s not my problem, my problem is that Nintendo insists on making public statements calling it VoIP seemingly to act like they invented voice chat on a console. It reminds me of people who call Target, Tarzshay. It’s Target and calling it anything else makes me want to kick you in the teeth.
As far as I’m concerned, if I need to be in a game to chat with someone it’s voice chat. If I can chat directly with someone without having to be in a game, it’s VoIP.
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What difference does it make if people call VoIP… VoIP? I don’t understand what the problem is. Also, I call Target that sometimes because it’s funny. You need to relax a little, buddy.
I mean, it’s not like they’re calling it the Walkman of the 21st Century.
“I mean, it’s not like they’re calling it the Walkman of the 21st Century.”
Oooh burrrn!
Nintendo is completely twisting the meaning of VOIP because what the DS is going to do is not VOIP as the public knows it. The public and tech industries know VOIP as an alternative telephone service. A gaming handheld that offers voice chat is just doing voice chat.
VoIP sounds more professional, and appeals to the parents who are buying these Poketitles for the kids. Then, when Nintendo releases an adult game that features VoIP in the future, Mom and dad will be on board with that too.
I proudly call it Tarzshay. Come find me.
Well, I’m glad I’m not totally crazy here. It’s Nintendo arrogance, nothing more.
I don’t care what they call it. It’s all the same thing. I think you may be projecting a little bit on this one. The term is accurate, whether we like it or not. As for the tarshay, Yeah, thats pretty silly. Funny thing is, I live in a town with 3 major target stores (and a few minor ones), and each target has a different nickname. The one in the richy rich part of town, everyone calls “tarzhay”, the one in the middle part of town, people just call “target”, and the one in the shitty part of town, people call it “targhetto”. It sounds funny, but at least you always know which particular target you’re referring to.
James, nobody said you were totally crazy, but Subnet6 is right, you’re making much more of this than is there.
Paul, how is Nintendo “completely twisting the meaning” of VoIP, when it’s “the public and tech industries” that have an incorrect perception of what it means? How else are they to refer to a technology than by using its actual name? You guys are complaining that Nintendo’s not dumbing something down?
Is it wrong for MS or Sony to call 720p HD when so many people think HD means 1080i/p? The ignorance of the consumer is not their concern.
Voip is shorter, I’ll go with that one. We didn’t call it voice chat on the PS2 either, we called it comms. I remember even someone mailing to Sega asking or the new Outrun had comms, They did understand the question but couldn’t provide an answer.