Eh...I'm not so sure about that one. The Rumble pack and Expansion pack for the N64 was very heavily supported. Remember, Ocarina of time REQUIRED the expansion pack in order for the game to run.

Lately though, the peripherals haven't  been well supported....I agree.

They need to support it more!

The only game ive used wii speak was conduit ... and i know no one else who has wiispeak ... i got it with animal crossing wii ...

also dislike the fact that NO ONE can hear you unless on your friends list ... disapointing

They're not gonna make games to revolve around Wii Speak are they?
They can only add it to games that have online play. Only recent one was Excitebots.
Endless Ocean 2 is coming soon. It has online play and it will support wii speak.

Its a poor device. Poorly constucted, poorly inplimented, and poorly recieved. The Conduits use of WiiSpeak is absolutly atrocious. Its too expensive, has crappy support, and requires FCs to even work. The fact that so few people actually have the damn thing makes if hard to use along with FCs.

It's a victim of peripheral support. How often do peripherals ever take off. Sega once said that they were waiting to release a GC Motion control to make some games. Well the GC didn't get any Motion control. Nintendo made the right decision. They waited on it and refined it to a usable level. If the WiiRemote was released as a peripheral it would have failed.

Sony EyeToy is a peripheral and failed, but Natal is based on camera input(though more advanced). Peripherals even if good have a high chance of not lasting past the game it's designed for.

The Balance Board while awesome for snowboarding really is just the WiiFit controller.

no it didnt

Honestly I bought WiiSpeak day one hoping Nintendo and third parties would support it like Live does with headsets. I really loved the idea of community chat and couldn't wait to use it in Animal Crossing. I loved using WiiSpeak in Animal Crossing so much easier then typing everything. But as you said Nintendo just left it out to dry, Nintendo didn't do anything to get third parties to support it and other then HighVoltage has any third party actually utalized it in any way worth while? No they haven't where's WiiSpeak in ModernWarFare:Reflex. I also thought that WiiSpeak would appear on future Mario titles like MarioParty9 etc...etc... but in all Nintendo isn't giving it much support.

But in the end I like their support for the Balance Board, WiiFitPlus and a couple third party titles have rushed to support it. I would love to see Nintendo releasing some more games for it. Then you have MotionPlus which is actually going to appear in the next Zelda, so you never know maybe Nintendo will actually support the vitality sensor though I fear it will go the way of WiiSpeak!

I couldn't agree with you more.

Wii Speak, the Zapper, Wii Wheel, Natal, Wii Motion Plus, the Power Glove, Eyepet, the Balance Board, and all of the others don't get nearly enough support.

Not all peripherals get terrible support, even Nintendo ones. The N64 rumble pack got great support, I dunno what's going with motion+?