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Nintendo Voice Chat

Nintendo Voice Chat: The Life and Times of Wii

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Video Games, Leisure

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2011

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

As many eyes turn toward Wii U, Rich and his team look back on Wii.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, what's up? This is Rich. We're doing things a little, you know, low-tech.

0:08.4

We got kicked out of our room. Yeah, exactly. Scheduling got weird. We got kicked out of our rooms.

0:12.5

They're actually recording on my phone again. Sam's here, Audrey's here, and yeah, so we're just

0:18.6

going to do it this way and be a little bit shorter, but Sam actually wanted to revisit week.

0:23.1

Topic! Rich, yes, sir. Do you know how many millions of copies the week on Soul?

0:29.3

I'm going to say 70. So what do you think, Audrey? I'm going to guess 80.

0:35.2

Audrey's close. It's like prices, right? So 71 is closer. April of this year, the weeks has sold 86

0:42.4

million consoles worldwide. That's pretty good. That's really good. That's a huge amount of home

0:48.8

consoles for these days, and it released in 2006, so that's only five years, and it's really dropped

0:56.0

off since then. A little bit, it's been nice. The games have gotten, there's been some

1:00.6

ups and downs, but I think we all remember in the story of the week begins back in 2005, and I

1:07.0

thought since the story of the week is almost ending in 2011, I mean, I don't think there's going

1:12.6

to be a week in 2012 that we're going to be talking about in future history, so I thought maybe

1:17.0

we'd talk about the history of the week today. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So I remember in 2005,

1:22.5

right before E3, there was a lot of speculation about one Nintendo's new console would be, and it

1:28.5

was pretty cool. People did, as the first time I ever saw this happen, where they did these fake

1:33.2

mock-up videos on the internet, do you guys remember that? There's one really cool one where it showed

1:37.2

like the castle from Super Mario 64, and it got like multiplied, like, remember that? Yeah, yeah.

1:44.4

And I tried out that that was like, it pulled out, and that was on like a sphere. Basically,

1:48.1

that it was, I think it was from Overseas, the person who did it, but it was like, it showed the,

1:52.6

because what we knew at the time was that there was a code name. It's all we knew. Revolution, right?

1:56.8

Which was so cool. And we knew that we would play games the same way, and there might have been

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