Rpruett said:
It's a typical Nintendo mistake. The type of mistake that makes no logical sense to anyone other then Nintendo. If what you're saying is true, incorporating (DVD/Bluray) playback should be an absolute cinch and not even a large cost of money. Quite simply, it's Nintendo cutting corners on costs to make more profit at the consumers expense. Nothing is "necessary" , but in todays age it should have tons of multi-media features, high quality online-integration, playback of various media types (Music, Movies, etc), HD support and more. Even though Nintendo doesn't consider itself in competition with MS and Sony, they are. Nintendo is afraid of pleasing what some would call the 'core' crowd on the 360 and PS3 and I have no idea why. I've longed for a system like the SNES for years but Nintendo continually doesn't take the necessary steps to achieve this. |
The reason to add a feature to a console is if the added cost to implement the feature is less than the value added for the consumer; if you don't stick to this principle you will eventually end up with hardware that costs much more to produce than consumers are willing to pay and you have to heavily subsidize it simply to sell it. While it may make fanboy's brag, a company losing a lot of money on hardware is a bad thing because it demonstrates that they have focused on things that their customers don't value.
While you may disagree with it personally, Nintendo is "betting" that the cost of adding disc-based media playback is greater than the value of the feature to consumers; you may disagree but it is an assumption that hasn't worked too badly for them with the Wii and Nintendo DS
