I'm serious boggled by the number of people who are just making very bad assumptions about Nintendo. Even when Nintendo is plainly telling everyone their direction.
Nintendo will use the most cheapest, but durable and efficient tech out there. That's why Wii uses DL-DVD. The drive costs about $5-10. I have not doubt that Nintendo would choose to use BR if BR drive was $5-10. Why wouldn't Nintendo use BRD. Well Nintendo won't specifically stay away from it. In the world of business Nintendo doesn't see BRD==Sony. BRD==Medium provided by a very large conglomerate. Wii2 won't use HD-DVD mainly because the drive manufacturer plants are being dismantled since Hitatch? backed out. This would make HD-DVD more expensive.
Nintendo isn't missing out on a thing by not incorporating BRD now. They barely used DVD with the GC and certainly aren't pushing DL-DVD games since most use 4.2gb and even then most games tick in less of actual content. Mediums alone don't make games successful. Since if that were the case PS3 would have 50m sold while Nintendo would have 20m.
BTW awesome conspiracy theory, but this is the world of business efficiency, not shooting yourself in the foot. While I'm sure business get caught up in mini conspiracies all the time doing such a move would be counter productive to expanding gaming.
As for Epic Mickey on the Wii. I suspect it has to do with Userbase and the fact it's got already established controls.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
