Why don't companies put more voice into their DS/other consoles games?

Yeah, we want more voices. They only put a few voices, like the jump and the get hit voice et cetera, but they don't put the talking voice. ;-;

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Speaking for the DS:
Audio files take up a lot of space on the DS cartridge that is limited to approximately 512MB. So there might be more chances for it with the 3DS cartridges' 2GB (possibly eventually 8GB) capacity.

Getting and paying the voice actors can be a problem too.

From my experience and in my opinion, a lot of VA in games is poorly done, so that might be a reason as well.

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Because it sounds awful 40% of the time and can ruin characters, an example, the Sonic series.

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@Biph You seem to (mistakenly) believe that voice acting improves the quality of any video game; it doesn't. Even so, the DS could do more voice acting if the wanted to, but if it doesn't make the game better because of it, then it's useless.

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In mass effect 1 & 2 the main character talks :p

And yeah, voices take up a lot of space like somebody else said.

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Some people can read faster than the people talking.....at which point they could skip if they wanted to.

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Well, it makes you see the character in a diffrent way. I played a game once, but with no voices, when I turned on the sound, I figured out that the main character is like 17, when I thought he was 13-ish.

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Voices can work, sometimes they don't.

It's actually a pretty big risk in game devolpment.

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same here but kingdom hearts 358/2 days, and recoded were well made. Good 10 talking cutscenes. But over all 8/10. Could be longer but why not save memory to sd to gain more adventure on ds card? Just my opinion.

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They might release Expansion Packs, perhaps.

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Oh god.

358/2 days was horrible in every way.

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Most DS games have 50MB and less in them. They don't use the left space. ;-;

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Besides, text is better for a portable console. Would you want to have to have your volume turned up to listen to stupid voices in public/night/etc. No.

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@Neon-No, that's why they created “Subtitles.”

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It takes up alot of space and leaves almost no room for graphics, gameplay, and features. Plus, finding good voice actors is difficult and expensive.

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Sometimes the characters talk with recycled voice clips. That's annoying.

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↑I don't know a game that did that.

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I do, and it's a sports game.

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If I'm correct, games have generally stayed the same since the old days when voice acting was not possible. Apparently, it set a standard despite it actually being a limitation.

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