WiiSpeak White Noise

[ZakAtak]

An article of how it works. WiiSpeak is connected to your Wii, which is connected to the TV. Wii then throws the sound from the TV out. It also has noise filtering that only picks up voices.

How Nintendo's WiiSpeak Mic Works | Game | Life from Wired.com

So background noises shouldnt be that big a deal.

[Blan21]

wow that's cool, I didn't know that was possible. Thanks for the info.

[sparty]

I told you guys that Nintendo wouldn't have missed something big like this.

[raggaice]

i'm gonna get animal crossing just because of that

[dinkdude]

sounds cool, but theres like always yelling in my house, so ill probably end up mounting it on my bed cuz im usually lieing down when i play games

[taco31]

Sounds like Nintendo is really making this a practicality I really like the direction that the Wiispeak system is heading into.

[dinkdude]

i just realised sumthing. they made it as a speaker thing and not a headset mic cuz wiis r based on families. that way if i have a bunch of friends over in a giant conduit online battle, theres not that one guy hogging the mic.

[taco31]

I guess that would be ok but then you have to deal with 10 different people speaking into the mic at the same time which would not bode well.

[cornyjohn]

"On the subject of voice chat in general and his company's longtime opposition to the feature, Eguchi said: "We really don't consider ourselves 'anti-voice-chat.' Once of the things we've said for years now is that we've wanted to provide a safe environment that people didn't feel nervous about going into. With games like Mario Kart and Smash Bros., because you can play against anybody, rivals or whoever's out there, and they're games where tempers can be frayed and people might use language that's not appropriate for everyone to hear, we didn't feel that those titles were appropriate to have a voice-chat feature.""

I fear this means that only a select few first party titles will actually incorporate the feature.

Third party will probably use it extensively.

[wolven]

Originally Posted by dinkdude

i just realised sumthing. they made it as a speaker thing and not a headset mic cuz wiis r based on families. that way if i have a bunch of friends over in a giant conduit online battle, theres not that one guy hogging the mic.

Now I'm doubting that Nintendo will allow HVS to use the Wii Speak in The Conduit.