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Iwata: No DVD Or Blu-ray Playback for Wii U
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raydude
Joined: 15 Jun 2011
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 Iwata: No DVD Or Blu-ray Playback for Wii U |
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While we know Nintendo’s Wii U touts a ‘proprietary’ disc format for games, a question looming is if it will be able to playback DVD or Blu-ray media from the same drive. According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in a recent Q&A session, the answer is no, citing cost concerns over patents:
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.
Nintendo’s stance on this hasn’t change since the Wii, then. For convenience’s sake, it is nice to have a console that does have the option of playing disc-based movies, but we reckon it’s far from a deal breaker for the majority.
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| Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:31 pm |
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rabbid
Joined: 16 Jun 2011
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What?! Thats ridiculous!
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| Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:06 pm |
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Shane74340
Joined: 28 Jul 2011
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Nintendo still hasn't got it yet.....
It's better to implement Blu Ray and DVD for people who do NOT want to buy a separate machine to play those media discs.
Blu Ray vs Netflix (QUALITY): Blu Ray wins. Nothing beats viewing the movies right off a disc.
".....because of the patents related to those technologies".. What an excuse! If Sony can include DVD+Blu Ray, then why can't Nintendo?
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| Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:56 am |
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wiifrantic
Joined: 17 Nov 2011
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Well, at least Netflix will be integrated within the Wii U (in HD), specially good for watching videos on the tablet. And also we will have usb ports, today I barely use discs, just take the video file in a pen drive
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| Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:46 pm |
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