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

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IamAwsome said:

MaulerX said:
In the article he mentions the patents involved. Sounds like Nintendo is being cheap as always.

It's a total shame. A missed opportunity. If Nintendo is going to fully sell people on the console to controller screen streaming, this would have been a super cool gimmick to add to the whole premise. The ability to stream your DVD movies to the control screen on the moments that (as Nintendo themselves demonstrated) someone in your family wants to do/see something else.
Nintendo, always finding a way to gimp their own innovative ideas.

They aren't doing it to be cheap. They are doing it because everyone on earth by now has a standalone DVD/Blu-Ray player. Why put somthing into your console that nobody will use? Nintendo initially planned to put a DVD player into the Wii, but decided against it for the same reason, saturation. How is that cheap?

Oh I forgot, they have to pay royalties to Sony. Why fund your biggest competitor?

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

You are the same guy that made one of the first posts in this thread, correct?

"They are giving away marketshare by not including it. Sounds like a stupid move."