WiiSpeak was in development before Animal Crossing: City Folk
Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 9:40am by Jack
Another shot across the bow this morning to those who think WiiSpeak was just some gimmick developed by Nintendo so they could throw it on store shelves alongside Animal Crossing: City Folk and then forget about it (a la R.O.B.):
“We’re always sharing information with the hardware group and all the teams within Nintendo so we can keep track of things. But in this case we were talking and they told me that they had this microphone in development and I said, ‘Really, that would work well with Animal Crossing. Here’s what we’d like it to do…” [Official Nintendo Magazine interview with Katsuya Eguchi, producer of Animal Crossing: City Folk, via Nintendo Everything]
To me that says there a few more first party games in the works (or near completion, given Animal Crossing’s fall release date) that will implement some cool WiiSpeak functionality (with Friend Codes!)
August 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Wanted to go on record here about people who complain about the functionality of the device. I own a similar device, the Playstation Eye. I use it for my voicechat solution on my PS3, and I prefer it to a headset. Any multidirectional microphone with decent noise canceling is capable of sitting far away from you, and picking up sounds without feedback. The PS Eye works, and so will WiiSpeak.
Just wanted to get that off my chest.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Yes, but will it make my voice sound like “Animalese” ala Animal Crossing Wild World??
(That would be just AWESOME…!)
August 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I cant wait to play basically the SAME looking and playing game that was on the N64, DS, and Gamecube …omg!!! now with some last gen voice chat capability!
And THIS is the big game from Nintendo at E3?
Really thinking of selling my Wii to some sucker Mom…I mean soccer mom.
My DS and 360 have such a better future than the Wii when it comes to games in the next year.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 am
Woot! TV Pow here I come:
http://www.retrothing.com/2006/06/tv_pow_70s_vide.html
Oh wait, that thing sucked. Whoops…just revealed that I’m a dinosaur. If it weren’t for those meddling kids I woulda got away with it too!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Why oh why didn’t they include a webcam in this?
Am I the only one who sees the potential of skype on your tv?