Sony had 'no choice' but to include Blu-ray in PS3

[joeorc]

moondeep said:
For the Wii though, I thought the initial news just before it launched in Japan was that it would have DVD playback, and then I heard that only special versions would play DVDs, and then it was dropped entirely, with the assumption that Nintendo would offer it again in the future via a firmware update or a new SKU or something. I guess Nintendo used the same logic for removing MP3 playback from their photo viewing software on the Wii. Didn't want to mess with the costs and hassles of the licenses, but I think it hurts their viability with us core gamers.

yea , the hardware is already there it's the software stack that's missing, and Nintendo may have a very Viable reason why it's not there most likey price increase, though it may not be much though but to Nintendo it was enough to keep the playback out of the Wii at least for now. with the Wii channel and among other thing's added on for the Wii i think Nintendo has pretty much it's hand's full. If Nintendo does indeed add the DVD playback i am pretty sure many people would like that function added if there was no cost, which most of the time this generation that were in right now , i think is very much the best and it will stay that way forward because there are quite a bit of freebie's that all three game companies are letting gamer's get thing's for free. moreso vs' last generation, with the added NETWORK content that all three can hand out for free it's a great time to play video game's this generation, young and old.