Wii U won't support DVD or Blu-Ray playback... your thoughts?

[d21lewis]

IamAwsome said:

Euphoria14 said:
Didn't read the article but from what I see in the OP is Nintendo saying that the reason is due to the disc used?


I remember Wii not having playback for DVD also but that was just due to Nintendo being cheap because a quick soft mod enabled DVD playback on mine and I am sure the same will enable at least DVD playback on the Wii U.

It wasn't because of prices,  it was because of Blu-Ray market saturation. Nintendo initially planned to put a DVD player in the Wii, but took it out for the same reason. 

And from what I understand, the Wii is totally capable of playing DVDs as is.  There was (and probably still is) a homebrew application for it.  Leaving out DVD playback was a design choice.