glimmer_of_hope said:
Rpruett said:
HappySqurriel said:
By the time the Wii U releases everyone who wants a DVD player will already have a working DVD player, Blu-Ray players will be available for (around) $50 to $75 and most of the people who care about Blu-Ray will have already bought in, and Netflix will slowly be climing to be the #1 way people watch movies. In other words, there is really no value in including support for Nintendo, and if they design the system to be physically incompatible it makes piracy more difficult. |
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.
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Yes because SNES had sooo much movie playback and "hardcore" gamers spend soooo much time watching movies right?
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No but the SNES wasn't grossly ill-equipped and about 1/2 a generation behind in features compared to it's competitors at that time, so I could easily make a case that had Sega Genesis had Movie Playback, the SNES would have as well.
