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Deegan on 31 May 2007

Found this on http://gonintendo.com/?p=18850

The real article is here: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/wiiremote/index.htm

The Wiimote’s hidden audio translater

I’ve been hearing about this all day, but now OddCrazyMe was nice enough to link me to the article and picture. This is a pretty awesome find! Perhaps we will see some games that take advantage of this feature at Nintendo’s E3 event!

 

Don't you think it's interesting?

Edit: Text in the picture above:

Audio translator

Manufactured and designed in the Philippines and Japan by Rohm

Function: Converts analog data such as human speech into a digital data stream. This feature is unused now but will probably be employed in future games.

Estimated Cost: $2.00

 



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dpmnymkrprez on 31 May 2007

Is it for real? I meandoes my wii-motes have it built in already, is that what you are saying?



Deegan on 31 May 2007

Yeah, i think it's real. Maybe Nintendo will release some microphone add-on or something to support it.



xstonexcold316x on 31 May 2007

nintendogs on wii!!! it will happen and this shows that it will!!



Deegan on 31 May 2007

Yeah, Brain Age on Wii too. I hope they can detect 'BLUE!' this time.



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ChichiriMuyo on 31 May 2007

If Fortune magazine is reporting something you can place your money on it being real.



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z64dan on 31 May 2007

Haha. Of course they put an audio translator in there. They don't want people plugging microphones directly into the Wii console, whenever they release High School Musical or whatever... right?



a.l.e.x59 on 31 May 2007

Wii keeps getting better and better.



windowview on 31 May 2007

I wonder if that has something to do with the future connectivity of the DS and Wii, maybe it plays a part in the built-in mic for the DS?

EDIT: nm, just noticed it said analog to digital 



superchunk on 31 May 2007

Yeah, this will probably be used for some RTS games as well. Wasn't there a new RTS game not to long ago that had the big difference of allowing voice commands? Plus every try to go to "http://wiikaraoke.com", it reroutes you to Nintendo's main website.