Nintendo announced Tuesday at the E3 video-game show in Los Angeles that its much-anticipated Animal Crossing: City Folk game for the Wii console will ship in day for the holiday season. It additionally announced a surprise peripheral — a speakerphone to ship with the game that will allow players to chat with other players.

The new speakerphone, called Wii Speak, is a small semicircle device that Nintendo displayed on top of the Wii’s sensor bar. It is meant to let players participate in the Animal Crossing: City Folk game while chatting with players around the world. A demonstration showed four players fishing in the game while chatting with each other.

Speak in Other Games

The Wii Speak can additionally be used with other games.

The Animal Crossing: City Folk game lets players care for a virtual world that continues to operate even when the game isn’t being played. The

Animal Crossing franchise began as a hit on Nintendo’s GameCube and handheld Nintendo DS.

Nintendo plus said it will offer a music game to compete with the popular Guitar Hero game available on available on other game platforms. But unlike Guitar Hero, Wii Music will let players simulate more than 60 different instruments, including sax, piano, violin and drums, as well as guitar.

MotionPlus and Grand Theft Auto

And the company said a more sensitive Wii MotionPlus controller add-on will ship next spring along with new sports games. The MotionPlus reportedly attaches to the end of the Wii controller, and Nintendo says it uses the accelerometer and sensor bar to deliver an astonishing 1:1 arm-to-screen movement.

Nintendo plus announced that its DS handheld will get an exclusive version of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game called Chinatown Wars that winter.

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