Wii Speak

Get used to speaking to friends online! Nintendo has announced Wii Speak (TM) at E3 08. Instead of going the conventional route with a personal headset, everyone in the family communicate online at the same time!

For $29.99 MSRP. Wii families can set their sensitive microphone on top of the Wii sensor bar without worrying about missing a single sentence! The first game announced to incorporate this functionality is the newly introduced Animal Crossing: City Folk (sold seperately). Now entire rooms can talk to people across Nintendo's Wi-Fi, making the Wii Speak a central communication system for anyone with access to a broadband connection.

No more messy speakerphones, Wii Speak will arrive in retail this fall, and hopefully will be part of your Nintendo Wii collection.

UPDATE 3: Much more professional, organization was needed.

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i'd rather have a personal headset, but this is a startvkr171

I agree, at least Nintendo is letting chat in now.

wii speak will be decent for AC and thats it!!!

in fps games online its gonna pick up so much interference not to mention it plays ppls voices through the tv speakers which means you wont be a able to hear a word they say!!!

360 gives u an option of playing voice throgh the speakers and it sounds HORRIBLE when compared to an ear piece1!!

i really hope there is an update with this to allow use in brawl, mario kart, and strikersKeenzach

Would love to have VOIP while playing Super Smash!

Pretty lame if you ask me. I am going to have to yell across the room for the microphone to pick it up.mgfarmer

I highly doubt that. I use a 10 year old microphone with my computer and it can pick up what I'm saying from halfway across my house with my door closed.

Yeah, if Wii Speak is anything like that (I'm sure the technologies improved over the past decade), then I'm sure that won't be an issue.

i really hope there is an update with this to allow use in brawl, mario kart, and strikersKeenzach

the mic is sooooooooooooooooooooo bad, they had better quite messing around and release a real headset that u can actually use!!!

The mic is great if it works properly. It's the same as using Skype on a laptop with a built in mic, which works just fine.presto7640

its not the same as a laptop! in a fps their is to much noise from sound effects, with the voice comes from the speakers u wont be able to hear anything!!

ive tried that feature on my 360 (playing Voice through speakers) and it sounds HORRIBLE!!

its soooooooooo much clearer in a ear piece!

i really hope there is an update with this to allow use in brawl, mario kart, and strikersKeenzach

[QUOTE="presto7640"]The mic is great if it works properly. It's the same as using Skype on a laptop with a built in mic, which works just fine.kenakuma

its not the same as a laptop! in a fps their is to much noise from sound effects, with the voice comes from the speakers u wont be able to hear anything!!

ive tried that feature on my 360 (playing Voice through speakers) and it sounds HORRIBLE!!

its soooooooooo much clearer in a ear piece!

That sounds like poor speakers to me. And I'm pretty sure the games that I played while using skype also had sound effects.

[QUOTE="kenakuma"]

[QUOTE="presto7640"]The mic is great if it works properly. It's the same as using Skype on a laptop with a built in mic, which works just fine.presto7640

its not the same as a laptop! in a fps their is to much noise from sound effects, with the voice comes from the speakers u wont be able to hear anything!!

ive tried that feature on my 360 (playing Voice through speakers) and it sounds HORRIBLE!!

its soooooooooo much clearer in a ear piece!

That sounds like poor speakers to me. And I'm pretty sure the games that I played while using skype also had sound effects.

i dont sit right in front of my speakers when i play like u would do with a laptop, i sit on a couch across the room, so unless i turn the volume all the way up im noy gonna be able to hear 90% of what ppl r saying from a speaker across the room, escpecially when gernades and machine gun fire are going off at the same time!!!!!!!

thats why sony and ms have a nice little ear piece that fits snug in ur ear so u can hear the voices without disturbance on their own auido line!

[QUOTE="presto7640"][QUOTE="kenakuma"]

[QUOTE="presto7640"]The mic is great if it works properly. It's the same as using Skype on a laptop with a built in mic, which works just fine.kenakuma

its not the same as a laptop! in a fps their is to much noise from sound effects, with the voice comes from the speakers u wont be able to hear anything!!

ive tried that feature on my 360 (playing Voice through speakers) and it sounds HORRIBLE!!

its soooooooooo much clearer in a ear piece!

That sounds like poor speakers to me. And I'm pretty sure the games that I played while using skype also had sound effects.

i dont sit right in front of my speakers when i play like u would do with a laptop, i sit on a couch across the room, so unless i turn the volume all the way up im noy gonna be able to hear 90% of what ppl r saying from a speaker across the room, escpecially when gernades and machine gun fire are going off at the same time!!!!!!!

thats why sony and ms have a nice little ear piece that fits snug in ur ear so u can hear the voices without disturbance on their own auido line!

fair enough.

According to a new press release by Nintendo, the WiiSpeak will be sold separately for $29.99. They said it would come bundled with Animal Crossing. So why would they release it separatley? Could this mean an update will let us use it in SSBB and Mario Kart Wii? Or will it be for a whole new game altogether?Stuipdboy1000

??? they really did not give away enough info, they just left it all to speculation for now.......

woooo, 3 games must use this. Le conduit CoD WaW Animal crossing All are going to be greatCPrince1000

Can someone pls help me with this ...

I missed the N conference... I read a couple of updates in kotaku.com... but...

also any news of which game would use it beside Animal crossing thingy...

Thx.

btw: Thx god I have quite a few games that I like... bc conference this year... imo... BAD

EDIT: I`m not worry that it would cause noise interference ... bc I rent a 2 room basement and one of those rooms is my videogame/entertaiment room... so.. And I do not have fan... A/C :P What I`m worry is how sensitive is to catch my voice.. would I have to yield?? why putting it so far,.. ( pry more family games in mind... :? :P )

I did not watch how it worked But if the micro thingy goes over the sensorbar and I would be about 1.5 meter away at least... how is taht going to work??chang_1910

[QUOTE="chang_1910"] I did not watch how it worked But if the micro thingy goes over the sensorbar and I would be about 1.5 meter away at least... how is taht going to work??Jdog30

ok.. thx...

Do we know when is comming out?

i'm glad Nintendo is bringing some sort of mic out, it's a start at least. But they never mentioned any other games being able to use the mic, or games that will eventually support it of any kind.

i'd rather have a personal headset, but this is a startvkr171

Yeah, me too, but they could always have an option to do that.

UPDATE: Sold sperately. Not included.brettneo3012

Thanks, I can't believe they would sell a perhiphial for $30 though.

[QUOTE="brettneo3012"]UPDATE: Sold sperately. Not included.SirSpudly

Thanks, I can't believe they would sell a perhiphial for $30 though.

sold seperatly?? that sux, i guess im not getting one then,

the 360 and ps3 let u use ur own headset, and u also get a LOT more use out of voice chat on those systems since basically EVERY game supports it!

NOW in nintendos case they release it AFTER ssbb and mk so right now theirs maybe only a handfull of games that can really use it and the best part! ITS NOT EVEN a headset!!! worst idea ever, the whole wii speak set-up is bad, i didnt even mention the fact u probably wont even be able to talk to ppl without fc's....

AC and this come out in fall right? that means conduit and COD better use this. that will make their games far more successful. I expect conduit to do it. hope COD will toosnowman6251

fall?? was this reveal?

I would like to know when is this comming...