Will Nextbox have a Blu-Ray drive?

[walsufnir]

 

ghost_of_fazz said:

walsufnir said:

ethomaz said:

pezus said:

I don't think it does.

Ah, someone mentioned movies. MS will have to support Blu-Ray if they want to position its console as a media center again I think. Either that or PS4 will again have the advantage in that area.

The Wii uses a Blu-ray driver but locked due the proprietaty format but the hardware is a default blu-ray driver.

The Nintendo just created this format to lock the blu-ray driver for movies, etc.

*any* proof for that?

It is not Blu-Ray per se. It is a format developed by Panasonic (who is also one of the founding members of the BD Association, and also good business partner of Nintendo) heavily based on Blu-Ray, with the same technology. If it's not called "Blu-Ray Disc" by name, is because of licensing fees, and maybe because Nintendo does not want to associate it's console with a technology that became mainstream thanks to a Playstation piece of hardware, and therefore, it is very  identified to the Playstation brand.

It was the same with the Wii's discs. They were DVD's, but they were never called by that name because of licensing fees. And the DVD was created by Sony too.

 

yes, that's what my post yesterday with links (!) also said. And no, it is not just another name or can you put WiiU-discs into a bluray-odd and show its contents? So the question is: what makes a bluray to bluray? Just the pits or is there even more? But claiming WiiU uses an ordinary bluray-odd is just guessing.