Wii 2 may get Blu-ray drive

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LordTheNightKnight said:

"True, though you'd still see greater expense that would fall entirely to the publishers, and we know how bratty they can be about this sort of thing."

Well developers have been bratty enough that I give on that point.

"Fair enough. I've explained my side of the argument, though. What is your reasoning to believe they would go with flash and have a built-in optical drive for b/c?

Other than, because it's cool."

Because BC is a good thing? Because it helps make customers from previous systems more comfortable? I'm not stating BC is just a neat feature. It adds to the system library.

BC is good but everything has it's price and what you are suggesting seems prohibitive in terms of cost. Remember that even Sony removed what many argued was their most compelling feature in the early days of the PS3 (hardware emulation) in order to save a few bucks and the hardware they removed for that was much less costly than a physical drive.

You probably missed my edit so I'm copying it here:

edit: btw if you're interested I'd be willing to wager a bet, for fun. Loser treats winner to 800 points at the Nintendo shop, or something like that. We should know enough details by the end of E3.

*just to be clear on this: you are saying Nintendo will announce Cafe with the primary physical medium being flash storage, and  that the system will also have a built-in DVD drive for older games. I am saying they won't have flash as the primary medium (support for SD cards like Wii or something similar doesn't count as it's a given imo) and will instead have some form of optical drive which will allow playing old as well as new games.