Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

[wethepurplepeople]

06-16-2011 12:56 AM · Post: #1 Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

Seems like Nintendo still hasn't learned, all the people that wanted DVD play back in the original wii still won't get it in the Wii u, according to, Satoru Iwata (Nintendo president).

Satoru Iwata, in a meeting with their investors, said it will only be able to run the 12cm proprietary disc and the 12cm discs for the Wii. Iwata, explained,

"Wii U does not have DVD or Blu-ray playback capabilities. The reason for that is that we feel that enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and Blu-ray, such that it didn't warrant the cost involved to build that functionality into the Wii U console because of the patents related to those technologies."

Despite this lack of support for other forms of disc media, Nintendo still gives their full support to third party developers, believing that it is "absolutely fundamental".

I think this is a fail. I'm pretty sure that there were a lot of people that wanted DVD playback on the wii. I know most of my friends did... But what do you guys think?

[wethebluepeople]

06-16-2011 03:55 AM · Post: #2 RE: Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

Omg XD hahahahaha their sales are going to go down so much because of that.... Well kinda they still have dedicated fans that will buy it.... And if I remember right, in the original wii's they were able to play movies.... They just didn't have a homebrew.... So what you did was bannerbomb your Wii and get dvdx sooooo I'm guessin that the same thing will happen for the new wii?

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[wethepurplepeople]

06-17-2011 05:18 AM · Post: #3 RE: Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

I know right? And yea, you could hack your wii and play DVD's but #1, not every one knows how to do that #2 didn't work on all the Wii's.

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[SpYdEr2314]

06-19-2011 04:29 PM · Post: #4 RE: Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

Another good example of how companies do not listen to there fans.

Expected result: SALES DROP.

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[Lazy Snorcock]

06-20-2011 11:28 AM · Post: #5 RE: Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

Uhmmm the reason why hackers will hack the Wii U

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[spike_132000]

07-20-2011 06:33 PM · Post: #6 RE: Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

Another reason not to buy it...

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[wethepurplepeople]

07-20-2011 11:54 PM · Post: #7 RE: Wii U still won't play DVDs or Blu-ray

(07-20-2011 06:33 PM)spike_132000 Wrote:  Another reason not to buy it...

There's to many reasons not to buy it, it'd be a lot easier to look for reasons to buy it rather than reasons not to.

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