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.

"DVD is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995."

It seems now that if there is a sony product inside the company who made something they get sole rights for it's creation. Sony where a part of it sure, but along with a good few other big players.

do you have a source for that? I have been trying to find one but i cant. I dont see where it says that it is abluray drive. The discs have the same capacity, but i think the wiiu has faster read speeds. so i am not sure if it is blu ray.

Yes Microsoft will finally invent the BluRay

A lot of people who hate Sony and the PS3 will suddenly say "OMG BLURAY best thing ever" after they hated it just cause the PSawesom3 and Sony invented and used it for AGES.
But this goes for everything - HDTVs?NO NEED!SD is enough!....Poor person gets a HDTV > OMG BEST THING EVER!
Now the same is happening with 4k TVs...In 10 years when its the standard everyone will love them.

I will search for it... I just read a hacker saying that... the latest Blu-ray drives is even faster for read than the Wii U one... the hacker comunitty thinks they can unlock the drive to read blu-ray movies (of course the Wii U have to be full racked first).

From what I undertand the Wii U discs is similar to PS3 discs... the difference is the file structure used by Nintendo to prevines piracy but the PS3 DVD file structure was different form the DVD standard and even so the burn programs can write in the PS2 format for games (for movies the PS2 can read the standard DVDs).

We need to wait but there is no other tech for discs over 20GB today... not a popular one... anything different from Blu-ray will be expensive and hard to manufacturate (eg. PS3 with Blu-ray).

WiiU doesnt use blueray, they have their own format

The file structure inside the BD disc is proprietary... the drive and discs are Blu-ray.

It's like the HDD for PCs... Linux format is ext3 and Windows is NTFS (the Windows can't read ext3 HDD... and Linux needs a software to read NTFS)... of course Nintendo uses some kind of encryption.

I read a lot about hackers regarding WiiU but nothing to the odd. Would like to read your link.

Sure, newer bluray-drives are faster. But speed corelates almost always to noise with odds...

I think they go by the same pit-size and that's it.

@walsufnir: Maybe you can't put a Wii U disc in a PC with a BD drive and read it's contents (or maybe you can with the right drive, like with the Wii?). But the future, when the console is properly hacked, you will be able to burn a standard blank BD that you purchase from a store and read it on the Wii U, since it's the same tech most probably.

@ganoncrotch: Maybe I should've mentioned that too, but that was my point exactly. Even if Sony was one of the key player on the development of a format, that does not means it's the owner.

@thranx: There are BD drives for PC much faster than the Wii U's. If we go by the assumption that it is indeed BD tech, then the Wii U uses a 5x speed drive. There are BD drives for PC that read at 12x.

nintendo usually uses propitery discs and disc drives as far as i know. the game cube, and the wii each used non standard drives and discs. I dont see why they start using a bluray now. I serached and i could not find anyhting conclusive, just comparisons. even the anandtech teardown didn't speicfy, it just said that it used a disc the same size as blu ray, but that the drive had increased read speeds.