Next think you know they'll be tying Wii Remotes to invidivual consoles as well, because every console owner should buy four different remotes for each console, instead of just "bringing your own" when you visit a friend.

This sort of anti-consumer restriction is getting out of hand.

Hey, Nintendo.

Die in a fire. Thanks.

See you 'round.

Honestly, this is not that retarded. Sheepherding consumers into one separate channel to not play games with one another is the equivalent of a fuckin' phone call with speakerphone on.

BUT!!

It is the trend/slippery slope I am most worried about.

Case Closed.

There will probably be one of Nintendo's "one game per peripheral" strategies. WiiFit had the balance board, Crossbow Training had the Zapper, and It's likely that the only game compatible with the WiiSpeak will be Animal Crossing.

Fuck you Nintendo, you used to be my favourite company, now I just feel abused and neglected.

lol wut

Wait I got the solution it's Google new voice chat and video. It was released just yesterday. http://www.google.com/mail/help/videochat/learnmore.html

This shit is getting out of hand. It's not just Nintendo, but this is a continuing stream of dick moves companies are pulling.

@ gamadaya
If it gives me multiple wives who go work all day while I sit and do shit I'll believe anything you want.

Who really cares? It will end up rotting away in a dusty closet after you play the one game for it like every other device Nintendo ever made.

Dick move Nintendo.

F you Nintendo

I'm sure the hardware will still work fine without the channel, because they're certainly going to be a huge number of 3rd party games that will support the mic! Speaking of, who needs more than 512 megs of storage space on a console anyway?

So... no one's excited for Animal Crossing?

Well played, Nintendo. Why don't you render all Wiis inoperable and email daily activation codes out to every wii owner's email address? Y'know, so folks can't purchase secondhand Wiis. :V

After 20 or so years, the NES is still pretty popular. People are still hunting down ROBs and Zappers and the like because, the console never really died. NES is still popular.

In 20 years, when someone wants to play that "retro" console the Wii, they won't be able to use this, and probably future, accessories.

In short, Nintendo seem to be taking steps to ensure the Wii doesn't last

Nintendo. I don't even remember why I liked them anymore.

Ah I have a odd question here to all those complaining about this? Do any of you even give a fuck about the WiiSpeak Channel in the first place? Most people here seem like the type of people who don't even own a Wii. So you're all upset that if one day you happened to buy a Wii, and then if you buy a second hand WiiSpeak you won't get a code to download the WiiSpeak Channel. Which is just a Voice Chat Channel on the Wii you know?

Why do you even give a shit about this? The fact that something you don't want is possibly being taken away from you if you happen to buy it used upsets you? WiiSpeak only cost $30 new so its not like its all that expensive if you want the stupid Voice Chat Channel that bad. Which you'll probably never use even if you had it. This doesn't effect using it in games in the least its just for the WiiSpeak Channel. My god talk about people over-reacting over nothing here!

NExt console cycle all controlers awill be locked to the system. preventing any hope of using the machine once all the hardware brakes for it in the future.

Laaaaaaaaaaame.

I just have to ask this. What if your system breaks? Nintendo said that the code is only good for one system and they don't replace codes? I can sort of see lawsuits revolving around that.

Also do these companies realize that people trade in their stuff to pay for new stuff? If people cannot trade in items to go towards new stuff, that's about half their sales right there. Not only that, every game store company will be forced to either stop selling their items or charge $10-$20 above MSRP to actually make profits. I know game stores pay only about 1-2$ less then what the game costs, so they can't make profits off of new items. I know that GameStop (One of, if not the largest retailer of video games) cannot stay in business doing that. ALL of their profits come from used sales, not new.

In the long run all these game companies are screwing themselves over. I know Gamestops ideology lately in stuff like this is if they can't make a profit off of it, they won't sell it. Nintendo will basically need to sell this off of their site and their site only cause Gamestop wont touch it.

the remotest possibility of me purchasing this game has just left the building.

@ Timmeh

Yeah I'm so sure the people at Nintendo come to destructoid to read you're complaints. Being short sighted is you acting like this matters on the Wii. People like you are worried over this happening on games like Gears 2, RockBand 2, and NBA Live where you get a code to get certain features, and can't get said features if you buy the games used. This is nothing like that its a freaking Voice Chat Channel on the Wii's Menu it has nothing to do with the games themselves. Animal Crossing is working just fine right now, and this WiiSpeak Channel doesn't come out till December so obviously it works without it.

Games on the Wii are never going to be like the 360 with code based incentives of getting map-packs because the Wii doesn't have any place to store them as it has no hard drive. So yet again this is just displace anger because of something that's happening on the 360. People freaked out when Pay To Play on the Wii was announced just the same, and now its fine. People know it only means DLC in the games, and not pay to play them online like you have to on the 360. So I would rather be short sighted than over-exaggerate on something with no facts (just wide BS speculation) to back it up.

@PEICanada7:
We give a damn because if people don't voice their concerns, they'll do it with other products that we might care about.

What the fuck, I'm not buying this.