Nintendo Preps For Room-to-Room Voice Chatting

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In the days leading up to the launch of Animal Crossing: City Folk, Nintendo is doing everything they can to make sure that the new voice chat feature works as smoothly as possible. Take a look:

The new in-game voice chat function for Animal Crossing™: City Folk will be ready to go as soon as the game launches on Nov. 16, using the Wii Speak™ accessory. A separate Wii Speak™ Channel that people can use to chat independent of Animal Crossing: City Folk will be available in December.

The new voice chat function makes use of the new Wii Speak accessory, a microphone that sits on top of the television and allows entire rooms of people to communicate with one another. Only users who have traded Friend Codes can connect with one another using Wii Speak. The accessory is sold separately at an MSRP of $29.99 and will also be available as a bundle with Animal Crossing: City Folk at select retailers at an MSRP of $69.99. The Wii Speak accessory comes with a code that lets users download the Wii Speak Channel from the Wii Shop Channel at no charge.

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Re: Nintendo Preps For Room-to-Room Voice Chatting

In the days leading up to the launch of Animal Crossing: City Folk, Nintendo is doing everything they can to make sure that the new voice chat feature works as smoothly as possible. Take a look:

The new in-game voice chat function for Animal Crossing™: City Folk will be ready to go as soon as the game launches on Nov. 16, using the Wii Speak™ accessory. A separate Wii Speak™ Channel that people can use to chat independent of Animal Crossing: City Folk will be available in December.

The new voice chat function makes use of the new Wii Speak accessory, a microphone that sits on top of the television and allows entire rooms of people to communicate with one another. Only users who have traded Friend Codes can connect with one another using Wii Speak. The accessory is sold separately at an MSRP of $29.99 and will also be available as a bundle with Animal Crossing: City Folk at select retailers at an MSRP of $69.99. The Wii Speak accessory comes with a code that lets users download the Wii Speak Channel from the Wii Shop Channel at no charge.

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This still means we can't talk with our friends while playing games unless the game is Animal Crossing. I am disappointed. Patch older games to utilize this new technology Nintendo. I'll spend ten minutes downloading the file on my Wii and I won't even complain because I know the benefits.