Some of you seriously are ridiculous like someone stated earlier. I can't blame many of ya though, as some of you are most likely clueless kids, or someone who doesn't know jack about wireless networking. Unless I'm Brawling late night (11pm-2am), or around noon on a week day, it hardly ever takes longer than 30secs to find players to play. If itz taking you long, chances are your firewalled, or you need to open the proper ports, which is no ones fault but your own.

There were major lag problems when the game first came out, but thats been fixed. As someone else stated earlier, if your getting horrible lag, or freezing, its either your connection or someone that your playing against. I usually get little to no lag, and if It does lag and is unacceptable, i simply quit as fast as I can and find a new game.

If you have more than one device in your house using your wireless internet (wifi) , you should try and play when none of those other devices (laptops,pcs, other consoles) are being used. If you try playing while other people in the house are online, chances are your going to get lag during gameplay and mess it up for everyone else in the game.

You can't compare this games online to other wifi connection games, because the structure is obviously different as someone already stated. You are connecting directly to other Wii systems, no to a server. The server only does the matchmaking. You also have to remember during peak hours (when most people are playing) your chances of entering a lag infested game increase. Not only this, there are people in Europe and other countries with American copies of the game playing online which causes lag. Distance effects the lag...

Like I stated earlier, the parental controls were designed a certain way, to restrict access to certain games and channels.

People have hacked the Wii-mote, and constant sound can come out of it, not just short sound effects like some think. The only reason I suggested this method is what I've read. Voice to text has been talked about, and kid safety while voice chatting has been discussed, specifically stating "we want parents to be able to listen in". How else would that work. Surely not through a normal headset. Either output is from the tv, wii-mote speaker, or something custom from nintendo. Anywayz itz not like the quality of the Wii-remote speaker would be any worse than that of a walkie talky.

Why don't they just only allow voice chat on friend servers? That way the only way you'll only be swearing with people who are your friends or who won't mind it.bobbetybob

Who said that they wouldn't be? Some still prefer to be able to communicate in some way shape or form while playing aganst strangers, with it being safe at the same time. The first post explains how that could work.

The Wii has parental controls, I think Nintendo should just find a way to take advantage of it and release a headset without any worries. Erebyssial

Well the parental controls only work to an extent. Once software is running, I don't think itz capable of much outside restricting software by rating, and restricting certain channels, and features of the Wii menu.

this has come up time and time again, nintendo won't ever allow voice chat or gamertags because they want to protect the children from naughty words and bad language, cause nintendo doesn't give a **** about core gamers, just children, all their games are for babies. take the person above me, she is exactly the type of person they are selling to, children who like childish cartoons like pokemon and kiddie anime.-theCHUD-

Last time I checked the Nintendo DS had online voice chat... THE NINTENDO DS! If you think their home console wont eventually get it, your being quite illogical..

I doubt the Wiimote speaker can output enough treble for people that will be screaming into the mic. It would just sound like noise.presto7640

Did you even read the post?? Why would you scream into the mic? Say what your suppose to, loud enough, and clear enough.. Is that really so hard?