Why no audio upgrade for the Wii?

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Words Of Wisdom said:

rocketpig said:

Words Of Wisdom said:
What's the cost/benefit ratio of this feature? Is it a major console selling point?

You probably will find the desired answers in the answers to those two questions.

It has to be pennies now. You see cheap-ass sound cards with more features than the Wii selling for just a few dollars.

I was pretty bent that there was no optical out on the Wii. Play a game like Guitar Hero III on 360/PS3 with a nice sound system and you'll see what I mean, when the crowd starts going nuts during songs it really amps you up. The clarity is another huge benefit. And to think what games like SMG or MP3 could have done with just 5.1 makes it even worse.

I wonder how much disk space such sound would take...

Not enough to matter, because the Wii has the same disc capacity as the 360.....even so the audio is always compressed so that it doesn't take up that much space.  When Sony's devs decide that they haven't filled up enough space on one of their blu-ray discs, they just put all the audio completely uncompressed onto the disc to take up space (it's unnecessary).

So, audio typically doesn't take up that much space.