Wii Speak Channel Videos & Press Release

Nintendo has launched Wii Speak today; and some videos of the channel in action have popped up.

Owners of the TV-top device are able to leave messages for friends and fellow Wii users, chat to fellow Animal Crossing enthusiasts and dabble in narration with the photo channel.

The UK branch sent out a press release to accompany the launch:

…The Wii Speak accessory enables Wii users to easily connect to and talk directly with each other through their Wii console, using the free-to-use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Wii Speak is placed on or in front of the TV in the centre of your living room, which means conversations can be picked up from an entire room of people. This ensures that your friends and family can converse in comfort with you- whether they are just up the road or half way across the world, enabling true global communication on your Wii.

Launching simultaneously, the Wii Speak Channel, which is downloaded and accessed from the Wii menu, will act as a portal to allow up to four different locations to connect, chat and share images and texts anywhere in the world at no extra cost. The Wii Speak
accessory and Wii Speak channel work in conjunction with each other. When a Wii user purchases the Wii Speak accessory, a Wii Download Ticket is provided which contains a unique number. The ticket, is then
redeemable via the Wii Shop Channel, and will enable the user to download the Wii Speak Channel free of charge to a single Wii console.

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