Keep an eye out for news from the Liepzig conference next week (Aug 23rd) as well. Nintendo will be there and making a speech entitled "Wii prove our promise". Apparently they won't be at TGS. Which sucks for me, cuz I was looking forward to seeing it happen while I'm there.

Also, more rumours on possible functionality in the Wii (though this one is somewhat substantiated)
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/15/wi...-to-text-chat/
Nintendo has a patent for Voice-To-Text technology to be used for video games. Full details can be found at the patent site. Nintendo hasn't announced where this will be used, but it's still possible.