Nintendo expanding dev tools for Wii - fur shading, predictive input, text to speech

[Kwaad]

the fur shading is nothing new. The original GC had it... If the Wii just got support for it... the Wii... well... wtf? Why didnt it have it? Text to speech is killer... but it's nothing special. Text to speech was around in 93. And if you look up some of the 64k demos, some of them have speech as well. Nothing sounds amazing there, besides the mention of Text to Speech. but Like I said, it's nothing new... and what does that matter? you can fit around 50hours of audio in 1gb. 25hours of audio in 500mb. and more like what would be in a game. 5hours of audio in about 100megs. I promise you, Text to Speech will never sound as good as a real voice actor.