I'm definitely getting this for the greatness of the device. However, when I need to be relatively quiet I will also pick up the eventual wireless headset that will be built off of this tech.

How Nintendo's WiiSpeak Mic Works

So there was one potential issue with Nintendo's WiiSpeak microphone that it announced at E3. If the thing is supposed to sit on top of your television set and record all the noise in the room, won't the loudest noise it records be the cacophany of game sounds coming out of your television set?

Not so, says Animal Crossing: City Folk producer Katsuya Eguchi.

"There's some noise filtering going on. It's designed to pick up stuff other than what's coming out of the TV. If you put this on your TV, if this was a regular microphone, you'd get your TV sound going in. But this is a USB plug-in. So the sound coming out of your TV is going into the Wii Speak, and when it goes back into the Wii, it throws that sound away."

On the subject of voice chat in general and his company's longtime opposition to the feature, Eguchi said: "We really don't consider ourselves 'anti-voice-chat.' Once of the things we've said for years now is that we've wanted to provide a safe environment that people didn't feel nervous about going into. With games like Mario Kart and Smash Bros., because you can play against anybody, rivals or whoever's out there, and they're games where tempers can be frayed and people might use language that's not appropriate for everyone to hear, we didn't feel that those titles were appropriate to have a voice-chat feature."

"However, with Animal Crossing, you're going to be chatting with your friends. There's no Animal Crossing "rivals" or any sort of open gameplay like that. So we figured that as long as people have registered each other as their friends and they're comfortable with that, then we're fine giving them the ability to chat with each other."

More from Eguchi, producer of Animal Crossing, Wii Music, and Wii Sports Resort, in the next few days.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/how-nintendos-w.html

Sounds like nintendo did their homework when people brought the issue about other sounds going into the wii speak.

high voltage has announced that the conduit is supposed to have wiispeak on the online portion of the game.  it's starting to sound like halo wii.

Wiispeak rules!!!

p.s. I hate the puns too.

I actually quite like speaker phone over headphone...

especially when playing AC....

^^''

but...I don't mind it too much..really..

whats the price?
its just a mic can't be over 20$.

i hope nintendo impliment it in future games and this sint a one off. cos that would be very stupid

Mummelmann said: So its a microphone?! This is starting to sound like less of a must have by the minute now.

What did you think wiiSPEAK was, lol?

Maybe it's just me, but that sensor bar looks quite a bit thicker than mine...........

Yes....