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

[stewacide]

Apparently also (from reading Nintendo's development 'blogs') Nintendo, for whatever reason, was developing all these APIs: text-to-speech, speech-recognition, writing-recognition, etc... many of which eventually found a home in BrainAge which of course sold a trillion copies. ...point being while you may not have any idea how you're going to use these technologies, if genius strikes they're there to be used (IIRC BrainAge was developed in a matter of weeks on top of these existing APIs)