I wouldn't be surprised if the next Nintendo console sticks with DVD or Nintendo creates a proprietary disk

blu ray is barely selling as it is, the 360 doesnt need it. Just a waste of money on a useless format that is going to be replaced in year or two anyway. Digital entertainment is the future and MS knows it.

1. Wii BluRay Media isn't impossible, but BRD would not be for gaming. Keep in mind the idea of "Distant Market". Much like the idea of DS LL(Eye Sight revision). So the BRD would be movie only for the distant market. Secondly it would cost more which also represents the different revision movement Nintendo is doing with the DS.

2. Wii will not have HD output for the sake of media. The Wii is at this time perfectly capable of rending HD, heck I have heard that you can hack the Wii output lines to get it HD. The problem with HD is that rendering in HD requires more subtantial video buffer ram or you end up losing performance on an exponential size to object ratio. So while the Wii right now is fine doing say a HD Fighter anything else is just going to cause other games to suffer.

3. Wii 2 is not coming for a few more years. It will also be an evolutionary step like the DSPhat-DSLite-DSi. Though there is no reason a possible DSi = DSiLL for the Wii isn't impossible, but keep in mind no hardware upgrade will come with it. Just tons of whining.

4. It's Bayonetta outfit that makes it popular. It's the sexy librarian look.

You not making any since.  You say the Wii doesn't play DVD or CD but you know Nintendo has the money to put it in.  How did the media center business failed.  Look at all the PS3 and 360 consoles sold.  I think Nintendo what's to have a media console too.  They lost a lot of they hardcore fans like me.  I used to like only Nintendo til the PS2 came out.  Just so you know the PS3 can't be modd and pirated.  I haven't seen any.

I disagree that digital is the future casue some people prefer physical copy. 

first off I doubt nintendo is going to put blu-ray in their next console. You forget Nintendo hates standard media formats because they can be pirated. Also Nintendo likes to make their consoles as inexpensive as possible so they have the highest rate of return. For those two reasons nintendos next console will not include blu ray. Next M$ probably doesnt care about the royalties from SONY if they feel compelled to include blu ray they will do it regardless of the money going to SONY.

HAHA! Someone believed those 'leaked Wii specs'

I thought Wii games where pirated.  It's hard to pirate blu ray and blu ray cost will go down so it wouldn't cost them much at all.

Nintendo's WiiHD (in 2011) will not have a Bluray drive. Why? because Nintendo has never used the same format of software to compete with competitors. Cartridges were even drastically different from the competition and mini-disks instead of regular disks and now the optical disk. Nintendo probubly has their own 50-gig disk just waiting at Nintendo Japan and ready for release with the next Wii.

I remember watching G4 in which they said Nintendo alots more then 500-mill a year in R&D. Keep in mind that the Wii was not drastically improved from the GameCube. Nintendo has probubly had a new bluray like disk in the works since the GameCube and I bet they are just itching to blow developers away when dev kits ship out next year.

My bet is we will see Microsoft adapt to using BluRay's simply because Microsoft doesn't develope its disk formats internally. But Nintendo will definatly not go with BluRay.

Exactly. For all intents and purposes, it might be Blu-Ray. It might even have a drive capable of reading Blu-Ray (much like DVDs can be made to run on Wii), but the disc will be called "Nintendo Optical Disc" and they won't have to pay the Blu-Ray Control Board (or whatever it's called) squat.