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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 can understand no blurayy, but no dvd either -__-. Come on Nintendo we are in 2011, you could do better.

I'll tell you right now, that having DVD playback or even Blu-Ray makes a hell of a difference. I'll go into reasons why:

• Having higher-end DVD's could allow better quality reading and loading times.
  
• This was proven when SSBB came out. It used a DL format for 8 gigabytes. However, the fact the Wii wasn't designed for DVD's, especially a DVD-DL, proved when Wii lasers were strained to the point the Wii could no longer read discs.
  
• Blu-Ray provides a much higher capacity for games, in addition to being extremely reliable and fast. Quality games could be supported instead of the garbage junkware we've been seeing from Third-Party Wii games.
  
• Blu-Ray is almost done replacing DVD's. Wii U having this could help rid of DVD's. To have a DVD player later on would be ridiculous. Here's an analogy: Instead of the PS2 being released with a DVD player, it came with a VHS player. At that time, VHS was still supported. But how outdated was it? Really outdated.
  

Ultimately, a DVD or Blu-Ray player is an essential asset to a console in this day and age. It will help and influence how games are on the Wii U. The fact is doesn't have it is an extremely strong foreshadow that the Wii will turn out to be similar to it's predecessor. The wii using WBFS as a format was absolutely ridiculous, and the fact that the Wii U is already using dated technology by industry standards is just as absurd.



Sorry to burst your bubble, but the majority of the Wii fan base is compromised of
casual gamers. One or two Nintendo made games per year won't satisfy the hardcore side, it would need to be much more like the N64 Era in order to satisfy the hardcore gamers. Even then N64 was still being ridiculous by using cartridges at that time. But at least they could provide quality games. The Wii barely has. They need franchises back, and stop trying to appeal to casual gamers with diet games or whatever.

Most of the hardcore has moved on to the PS3 or 360. Goldeneye and Resident Evil on Wii is shit. We got a PS2 rehash (Resident Evil 4), long after it came out. Goldeneye is a rehash a well, but it proved to be fun. Regardless, rehashes aren't enough. The Wii U isn't on quality mode, it's on money mode. Everything they're doing to appeal to the casual market is all for money, bottom line. Wii U is stated to be slightly more powerful than the PS3, but even I doubt that. Sega Saturn was the most powerful console in it's time by miles, but it wasn't utilized properly. I don't think the Wii U will be utilized properly as well. It's all a gimmick, the controller to appeal to families who'll fork out the money to seem cool with something unique. Re-releasing and price drops may have worked with the Wii, but I'll be damned if they can get away with it again on the U.

It's all about money for Nintendo, maximum profits. The Wii has shown it, and the U is already started to show traces of following as well.

/endrant

As I had stated, it comes down to ore than just playback of movies. Much more.

wii doesn't need BluRay.. all the users are little kids.. think they care whether their wii has bluray or not..?

You should really read my post on Page 3 to clarify your thoughts.

Wii U looks more gay

You did it again Nintendo...