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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Wednesday, Jun 15th, 2011

Although Nintendo has headed up some amazing innovations in gaming, they never really seem to be at the forefront of the best gaming technology.

One thing that has driven many people away from Nintendo's consoles is the fact that they have always lacked any real multimedia support, such as DVD playback.

With the release of the Wii U there were those of us that had high hopes Nintendo would try catching up with other consoles and add support for DVD and possibly BluRay.

Well it is official that those hopes have been crushed. The Wii U, just like the Wii before it, will still have no DVD or BluRay support.

Company president, Satoru Iwata stated:

Originally posted by another user

"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."

Now in my opinion this is a mistake on Nintendo's part. In a day and age when everyone wants everything in one place, it is necessary for a gaming system to have as much multimedia support as possible. Many people have completely replaced their multimedia setup with a console and good sound system. Despite that, Nintendo believes they can still leave out such a useful feature and stay on par with the other consoles.

So what are your opinions? Should the Wii U have support for DVD and BluRay? Do you find it important that a gaming system have multimedia support? Does the Wii U sound like a deal or a dud so far?

i dont think it will have bluray
but it could be possible

What's a DVD again?

I know what I am not buying. =D wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

It would cost them next to, if not nothing to implement a DVD playing function. The Wii was capable of playing DVDs, as proven by the many Multimedia playing Wii home-brew apps. Its not as if they need to add new hardware to the Wii U in order for it to do this, all they would have to do is pay one coder for a full days work to rip-off some open source media player and give it the ability to run on the Wii U.

/rant

...Nintendo's got my money :y:

Wii is not advanced yet as Sony

nintendo really need to get a hold of themselves and actually do things that people want them to.

Nintendo definitely messed up on this one. They should have added DVD playback capabilities. It didn't even have to be Blu-Ray. /facepalm

Great article Open Minded :y:

Its a fking gaming console. You want to watch a movie? Go buy a DVD/Blueray

obviously nintendo is right where they are at, with their sales numbers beating both xbox and playstation. It doesn't matter to them about a console which is made soley for gaming, to ever have a dvd or blu-ray device. I see where they are coming from, they are true to gaming, I will continue to purchase nintendo products.