[QUOTE="kejigoto"]I like the idea and will probably pick one up around the time I get Animal Crossing Wii. Just the fact alone that Nintendo is now going with voice chat is awesome, and I'm sure its just a matter of time before we start getting headsets and what not, just look at the DS which has its own headset now. Plus if a company like EA can make a great online system for Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 and get around using friend codes to play online, then I'm sure someone can get around the friend code chatting thing and have it so you can chat with random people.
Nintendo is still getting the hang of the whole online thing and though its not the best it could be, things could be a whole heck of alot worse and for free online play, can we really complain that certain things aren't overly great? With each game that comes out that supports online play, it just gets better and better. Look at the jump in quality from Super Smash Bros. Brawl to Mario Kart Wii, Brawl was super laggy and hardly worth it while Mario Kart doesn't lag that much and when it does the whole game doesn't freeze up like Brawl does. Its like I keep saying about the quality of games, give it about a year and the matter will be sorted out.
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They aren't getting the "hang of it." If they really wanted to, they can make a great online experience where you can talk with random people and.....who knows....maybe even add them to your friends list from the game itself!! They have expert programmers that can surely copy the features of PS3 and 360. But they refuse to make a better system because they are afraid little kids will be molested when they go play Mario Kart.I'm not sure I'd call it a fear of kids being molested or anything, but they do want to present a kid friendly image to, dare a I say, "lure" in the younger generation like some of us were oh so long ago with the colorful worlds on the 8-bit Nintendo. Also I don't think Nintendo's goal this generation is to just go off and copy Microsoft or Sony in any way, shape, or form. Their whole point and objective was to forge a new path and break away from the traditional way of gaming, to bring in others and change the way we think of games and how they are played. Who knows, maybe this Wii Speak thing will be awesome and completely change the way voice chat is input into games. Then again it might be something that is fully utilized in games like Animal Crossing while other companies will implement it in ways that make use of a headset or something.
My point is that Nintendo is feeling around for new ideas and different ways to do things that have already been done, why just do what other companies did and make a head set when the whole concept behind the Wii was to get people to play who wouldn't normally play. Remember Miyamoto's 2007 (I believe it was 07) E3 speech when he spoke about how he managed to get a way for his own wife, that would never pick up a game, to pick up the Wii and find aspects she enjoyed, all on her own. I see the same concept here with Wii Speak and I fully support Nintendo's idea behind it because I know they'll offer another form of voice chat shortly there after. They allow voice chat on the DS via a head set and I don't see them excluding the Wii from that for much longer. Wii Speak is just another way to take an aspect from more hard core games and allow others to be involved when before they'd be excluded. Yea its for the casual gamers but something tells me there will be a more hardcore gamer fix soon and who knows, maybe they'll implement both Wii Speak and a head set in games down the lines and just use a parental control feature to make sure that kids are only talking with those they know and with Wii Speak or something.
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