Fresh from the Nintendo Media Summit comes news of a new Wii Speak Channel. This channel will pop up on your Wii on November 16th, and lets you use that handy Wii Speak device we told you about at E3 earlier this year. Don't have Wii Speak? Get one for $29.99.
The channel lets you speak (or as Destructoid contributor Jonathan Ross suggests, fart) with up to three others that you've traded Friend Codes with online at no cost. Your Mii will appear on screen (of course) and mimic your chat. Think of it as a conference call app with all the seriousness sucked out.
You can also used Wii Speak to leave messages (kind of like Xbox Live) or narrate captions for your photos. Or fart.
Will you use this channel? I think it could be kind of cool if you used it as a musical jam session facilitator.
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12:44 PM on 10.02.2008
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Also, if it could stay active when you go into a game, that would be way cool, but I doubt it will :(
So they'll probably never be on this. Meh.
Something so basic and Nintendo can't even do that right.
I like the idea of doing a jam session, but I wonder how well that work.
30 bucks is average for a headset, I wonder if you'll get notifications? I'm assuming right...Wouldn't make sense if you had to call somebody up to tell them to get onto the Wiispeak channel...
I wonder if there will be ingame invites and what not. I'm really not fond of pop ups while I play.