Product Description

• Wii Speak for the Nintendo Wii

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #752 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: RVL A MU
• Published on: 2008-11
• Released on: 2008-12-05
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.45" h x 5.70" w x 8.70" l, .55 pounds

Customer Reviews

Brilliant, but better when together with Animal Crossing: LGTTC in the bundle
WiiSpeak is a microphone for the Wii that allows the whole room to chat with another whole living room. You may want to use it with solo use, but it can be used with the whole family. The quality is, for the most part, fantastic. Currently Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City is the only game to use WiiSpeak, and only one future game has been comfirmed to use WiiSpeak - The Conduit. But, you can also use the WiiSpeak in another way besides games - namely, the WiiSpeak Channel. When you get WiiSpeak, you'll find a piece of paper inside it with a code. Before you think this is junk, the code on it can actually be inputted into the Wii Shop Channel to download the WiiSpeak Channel. The WiiSpeak Channel is a Wii Channel that allows you to just essentially chat with Wii Friends that also have WiiSpeak, much like Skype. But, it can also send voice recordings to Wii Friends for them to listen to when they open up their Wii Message Board message - even if they don't have the WiiSpeak Channel.

As crazy as this sounds though, don't buy this specific product. There is also an official bundle of WiiSpeak and the recently released Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City available. If you are going to buy WiiSpeak (which I really reccommend doing), buy it with Animal Crossing: LGTTC in a bundle.

Rating: 10/10

Great fun.
Easy to set-up and use, does what it's supposed to very well - allows you to do voice chat with someone else who has it (you need to swap friend codes, there's no facility for random chat, going to chatrooms etc) - and lets you use voice chat in games that support it (to the best of knowledge, so far that means Animal Crossing and the soon to be released The Conduit)
It also lets you send voice messages (10 seconds long, but you can send as many as you want) to a friend who doesn't have Wii-Speak.

Please note - I've seen this item for sale 2nd hand online and in shops - it comes with a code to let you download the Wii-Speak channel, which I believe can only be used on one Wii and as far as I know, you can't get another one from Nintendo - so if you get it 2nd hand, then you won't be able to download the Wii-Speak channel (which is what you need to send messages or do voice chat).
I think a 2nd hand one would still work with games that support it - but not for anything else.

Great fun
Great item for a great game, the children play it all the time with their friends.