Wii Speak Channel hit by delay
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Nov 11th 2008 at 5:20PM }
Contrary to what we originally heard, it looks like the Wii Speak Channel won't be launching alongside Animal Crossing: City Folk on November 16th.
IGN snapped a picture of the WiiSpeak box, complete with a disclaimer that the Channel (which allows chat outside of Animal Crossing) will actually appear in December. When in December isn't clear, though we know the Channel will be available in Europe from December 5th, so maybe then. Until then, you're just going to have to pick fruit and chat simultaneously. We can probably cope with that!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TheOverlord#2 @ Nov 11th 2008 7:04PM
Doesn't sound like a very good channel anyway. If I got updates if my friend's Wii was turned on, it would be useful.
Though not knowing that, if I want to tell someone to get on the WiiSpeak channel I would probably have to call them, defeating the purpose(or I could arrange a time to talk, but that would also be pointless).
Game Night version 2.0|Codename: Speak will have to wait. :P
Mr Khan @ Nov 11th 2008 7:12PM
That's basically all this channel will be useful for
Though it is tied to WiiConnect24, apparently, so a status update system might be easier to implement than if it were tied to its own WFC account
TheOverlord#2 @ Nov 11th 2008 7:39PM
Yea, if they would put scrolling Wii Friend status messages on the channel's icon, it would be worth a download.
ZombiePikmin @ Nov 11th 2008 7:53PM
YES!!!! im getting AC:CF tomorrow!!!!
TheOverlord#2 @ Nov 11th 2008 8:10PM
I wish it came out tomorrow too, but it comes out on Sunday. :(
(Unless you have the magic time-traveling phone from Wild World...)
ZombiePikmin @ Nov 11th 2008 8:20PM
Nope i have really good friends that work at a game store.
TheOverlord#2 @ Nov 11th 2008 9:58PM
Son of a--
I mean, you sure are lucky!
AJBACK2FRAG @ Nov 12th 2008 1:56AM
This will work w/ every Wii wifi game from launch to the last if I have to do it myself.