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bananaking21 said: because sony is one of the main coparations that made it. its why sony keeps pushing blueray |
The royalties is paid to One-Blue company then the profits are shared between (I don't know what is the division of the profits): Cyberlink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Taiyo Yuden and Yamaha.
These companies didn't pay royalities...
The Wii U's drive is made by Panasonic (I guess) so the Nintendo don't need to pay any royalities to use it (just the price fixed by Panasonic)... of course there is the discs royalities but these are the consumers that pay and not Nintendo... and the format used into the BD discs are custom... so the Wii U don't have read support for BD movies then they didn't need to pay royalities.
Anyway the Wii drive is a standard DVD drive too... the Wii can even read DVDs with hacks.
I'm pretty sure the Wii U drive is a standard BD drive.
