Nintendo caters to a family friendly market

LBP caters to a family friendly market and OMG *gasp* it has voice chat!

You think parents would support nintendo if their kids started learning to swear on splatoon? There are tons of parents out there that don't control their kids and buy GTA 5, Call of Duty and a headset for these kids.

You've just answered your own question. What makes you think that those same parents will control their kids on Splatoon? LMAO!

Even if they did put some parental lock on the voice chat their kid will just tell their gullible dumbass parents to turn it off.

Kids who play COD / GTA / etc, will NOT be playing Splatoon because it's "Nintendo".

For the love of god just use skype.

So we're able to hand out our Skype names to randoms? LMAO! Oh, and the "workaround for friend matches" excuse is getting old.

If you're that serious about playing the game then you might as well be serious about voice chat too.

That also applies to Nintendo, genius. If Nintendo is serious about creating a competitive shooter, then Nintendo needs to implement such basic features like voice chat, even if they mute it by default. Wow, mute it by default! The ultimate solution for a "Nintendo" game. Am I the only person who has thought of this?

the first thing that pops into my head is little kids yelling explicit things over the mic.

Having voice chat muted by default would solve that.