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Please take our . Nintendo @ E3 - DSpeak: VoIP via Nintendo DS Posted May 20, 2005, 4:17 PM ET by Barb Dybwad Related entries: , , ,

This is still just a concept demo, but it is a working demo: DSpeak is basically Voice over IP calling using the wireless capabilities of the . Using a connected headphone/microphone, DSpeak allows you to hold conversations with other DS users via WiFi, and the audio quality is reportedly perfectly fine, as good as a mobile phone. Plus, you get little Mario and Wario icons moving their mouths when you speak come on, , how you gonna beat that? The software itself will be available as a free download, and the booth boy told us that theyll be including headsets with DSpeak-compatible games (the headset will probably also be available for sale separately for some nominal fee). Otherwise thats about all we knowwe couldnt squeeze a release date out of them, and no one at the Nintendo booth knew a damn thing about the actual technology they were demoing.

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Why wouldn't you just get up and talk to them? Posted May 20, 2005, 4:25 PM ET by Dean

SWEET cant wait!! Posted May 20, 2005, 4:25 PM ET by hecatomb

So there's internal storage in the DS for a program such as this? Or is this going to be in some sort of a firmware update? Posted May 20, 2005, 4:26 PM ET by

This is pretty cool, but not sure how useful it is, especially considering if you are playing locally, it would be easier just to talk smack to the person directly. Posted May 20, 2005, 4:27 PM ET by retro

Wow... this is going to be a great software update!Hope they tweak the graphics though. Like a friendlier GUI for the DSpeak. Not to keen on the big green and red and white buttons of the current version they are showing. Hopefully it will be a slicker, cleaner version.Plus, maybe they could eventually have a ptach that lets it connect through VoIP to other phones, ie. making it a portable phone.Which is waht this program does, but only with other DS's. Posted May 20, 2005, 4:31 PM ET by Kuan

Sweet. It could be almost a free cell phone service, right? That would be pretty sweet. Posted May 20, 2005, 4:33 PM ET by phantomprophet

So where is the software?You mentioned something about "compatable games"Is it like the browser in wipeout pure where the software would be on the game or are they going to use the old style gba cartrage slot for the software and the the DS ROM chip type cartrage for the game??? Posted May 20, 2005, 4:34 PM ET by Glennzilla

I think it could really be useful on long distance gaming sessions through Nintendo WiFi Connection... Posted May 20, 2005, 4:47 PM ET by MooMix

I hope it can be used through their online gaming service. Posted May 20, 2005, 4:56 PM ET by

YES i already knew the DS would have VoIP but what about the psp does it have the capabilities to do VoIP? Posted May 20, 2005, 5:17 PM ET by

There are girls at E3? Holla Posted May 20, 2005, 5:30 PM ET by tony.phewklieng

yay someone might actually get to read my commentsDo you think they might have this technology downlod for the psp and how far would it be able to go Posted May 20, 2005, 5:47 PM ET by MooMix

I don't think the PSP has a download service comparable to the DS does it? I'm sure if DSSpeak takes off Sony will try to come out with something comparible for the PSP although the PSP doesn't have a built in Mic like the DS. Posted May 20, 2005, 5:47 PM ET by niko

too bad they didn't add wifi to the gb-micro. actually i wish they would have made the screen a little bigger and added an SD slot for mp3s. Posted May 20, 2005, 6:23 PM ET by psy

this functionality could really enhance the in game experience. turning it into a cellphone in its own would be pretty pointless... its a gaming device, not some multimedia loving pile of crap like psp. if you could talk to each other wirelessly while playing or have voice control in a way similar to mario party or that new odama game at E3 then online play could get pretty interesting. Posted May 20, 2005, 6:26 PM ET by strider_mt2k

Well done, Nintendo!Now make that GBA Micro under 100 bucks, and you are SMOKIN! Posted May 20, 2005, 6:30 PM ET by Fuzmann

the said it was avalible for free download...wonder what that means? Posted May 20, 2005, 6:31 PM ET by MooMix

I doubt Nintendo will charge over $100 for the GB Micro Posted May 20, 2005, 7:51 PM ET by

PSP has a download service comparable to the DS does it? I'm sure if DSSpeak takes off Sony will try to come out with something comparible for the PSP although the PSP doesn't have a built in Mic . Posted May 20, 2005, 8:14 PM ET by KD

It's innovation like like this that has me convinced to buy a DS. Please make this work over the internet. Long distance voice chats and playing a game over the internet will make me buy one for me and one for my mom who lives 6 hours away. :) Posted May 20, 2005, 8:20 PM ET by Sheero

Yeah that might seem cool but its useless until the ds can access wifi but how will you get the update for the wifi if theres no way to update it without wifi? Oh you might think you buy a cartride os that it works, fine. Then the only way for the actual program to work is to use a cartride so basically you fork out $30 to talk to someone 20 feet away without having to walk up to them.Great! Now its 60 bucks just to get that to work! Posted May 20, 2005, 8:48 PM ET by swarmster

The DS has built-in wifi, Sheero. Posted May 20, 2005, 9:21 PM ET by MrFloppy

Oh.... what a innovation... (insert sarcastic tone here).Good feature, but I still prefer that "multimedia loving pile of crap like psp" Posted May 20, 2005, 10:05 PM ET by Scott

Yeah, seemed to be a pretty cool thing at the show. Except, when we went to go check it out their WiFi wasn't working :-Poor techs trying to figure it out :(Crappy Phone pic of the hardware they were messing with...And #10, we got your booth babes ;)Go to the upper left hand corner of this page, and look for Booth Babes in Categories ;) Posted May 21, 2005, 1:17 AM ET by Alex

Scott, Nintendo has put up their DS WiFi network, so it wouldn't work. They are going to put it up soon, they just made a partnership with IGN's Gamespy to use the Gamespy network Posted May 21, 2005, 5:27 AM ET by ill trooper

Dane, Sheero et al, I think the idea is not to get up and talk to someone across the room, but rather to talk to someone in another part of the world via the DS game network they are setting up... Posted May 21, 2005, 8:11 AM ET by Dude

Why would you need to put up a WiFi network? I can walk down the street in any neighborhood and pickup a WiFi signal. Posted May 21, 2005, 9:22 AM ET by mike

Good feature, but I still prefer that "multimedia loving pile of crap like psp"----Let me guess.. you never feel the urge to show off your photos on the bus.. you never feel the urge to watch movies on a 4 inch screen, and you don't have jeans with pockets big enough to use the PSP as an iPod killer..Multimedia indeed.What's left? A portable disc drive with little marketshare and little battery life playing watered down PSone games. Posted May 21, 2005, 10:51 AM ET by

This makes the need for X-Link 100 times more pressing. :-) Posted May 21, 2005, 11:11 AM ET by Fischju

Sweeeeeet. This is gonna mean in game communications. Hopefully for cooperative hunters mode Posted May 21, 2005, 1:05 PM ET by Sheero

So your saying the Ds will fit in your pocket? Cause it definately DOESNT Posted May 22, 2005, 1:53 AM ET by Stylus112104

The DS fits in my pocket, smarty. I would love to have all the features of the PSP crammed into my DS and that VoIP+WiFi thing. The beauty of it is that it comes OPTIONAL, lowering the overall price of the DS and satisfing people who could CARE LESS about the multimedia stuff. Anywho, how will the DS be updated permanently? The only thing I can think of is saving the firmware in a GBA-type cart. Posted May 22, 2005, 1:54 AM ET by Stylus112104

I THINK THEY SHOULD CALL IN DUAL SPEAK! and incorporate a PDA/WEB/MESSENGING/VOIP/MP3 capable (with added storage from the gba slot) into a wonder of a warp-pipe killer all app. Posted May 22, 2005, 6:22 AM ET by jayson

They should also make an appointments calendar and tasks program to make the DS a PDA/Phone. Hehehe. Posted May 22, 2005, 10:46 PM ET by

Mabey a video conference hardware will join it soon. Then the DS will have a camera. Add your comments

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