Wii 2 may get Blu-ray drive

[gumby_trucker]

gumby_trucker said:

Just a thought that crossed my mind, but wouldn't it possibly be beneficial to the BDA to give away the license for free to console manufacturers at this point?

If we are really talking about pennies per system, then considering the average consumer would most likely not buy a BD player at this point anyway, with digital distribution having taken off, it seems like a logical way to increase the market penetration dramatically.

I mean even if out of every 10 console owners, only 1 of them cares enough about having built in Blu-Ray to actually go out and buy a single movie during the entire lifetime of the format it might still be profitable* for the BDA. If this kind of move actually helps the format gain a decent market share, then the whole venture would be wildly profitable!

*I'm assuming that for each movie sold the BDA gets in the area of 10 licenses worth of profit, which going by this thread would equate to a Quarter and change... seems reasonable for a layman like me anyway.

Of course this is all assuming Nintendo even intended to go with Blu-Ray to begin with, not to mention have dual layer support.

anybody have anything to comment on this?