DVD on Wii

[Spirit]

Didn't know if anyone else was interested in this. I saw that nintendo is releasing a wii with dvd playback capabilities in Japan but the relese on the new system in other teritories is not planned. I saw this on Wikipedia.

 

[jledesma]

I saw that too. Of course at a higher price. Come think of it I don't believe I need a DVD enabled Wii. I have enough DVD players around my home :thumbsup:

 

[vagrant]

this came from a statement a while back. Noone knows if it is still going to happen, except for nintendo of course.

 

[ericlewis91]

you can buy dvd players for 19.99 or 29.99 on sale like every week so why would i wait for one in the wii...plus the new wii will be more then 300 bucks!

 

[BlenderWizard]

Also, as I've said before, watching movies on game systems, in the past, has been a VERY bad idea. When I used to manage a GameStop, we had people with broken systems come in all the time.

They'd tell us their PS2 or XBOX just quit working. We'd always ask if they'd watched a bunch of movies on it, and 99.9% of the time they'd tell us that they always watched movies on it.

No thanks; I wouldn't chance it. I promptly sold my XBOX DVD playback kit shortly after I started working there.

 

[duancg]

Plus you probably want a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD player sooner or later for higher video quality, and Wii is not going to give us that. So just make sure we got a good console.

 

[deity_link]

Why do you need a DVD player its a game console sure its convient if you have it but I find my DVD player is alot better than my Xbox or my mates PS2.

 

[Flunk You2]

the wii has a dvd drive in it so lets just hope it will be abled soon!! :ihih:

 

[Dudeman]

I have probably a dozen DVD players I ink nintendo assumes that if you're getting a wii you've probably already gotten a DVD player. I'm not saying that a DVD enabled wii wouldn't rock though!:cornut:

 

[sracer]

Why do you need a DVD player its a game console sure its convient if you have it but I find my DVD player is alot better than my Xbox or my mates PS2.

Well... Look at what the Wii can already do. Built-in wifi, bluetooth, photo, video, audio playback (files on SD card), email, oh... and it plays games too . Soon it will have a web browser, information portals ("channels").

In contrast to Microsoft's "big splash" noise about making the 360 a multimedia device (and it does a great job), Nintendo is taking a stealth approach to the living room. Depending upon the quality and functionality of the Opera web browser, that feature alone makes the Wii appealing to older non-gamers who simply want access to the web without the complexity of a PC. (The only reason I upgraded my parents to a notebook PC from a WebTV was because the WebTV browser couldn't display many of the latest web pages)

I agree, DVD playback support on the Wii isn't critical, or even very important in the context of a game console. But if Nintendo plans to make it more than "just a game console", then DVD playback is a nice addition.

 

[Flunk You2]

so im right that the nintendo wii has a dvd drive?

 

[vagrant]

so im right that the nintendo wii has a dvd drive?

It reads the data off the wii discs in a different way.

 

[Flunk You2]

It reads the data off the wii discs in a different way.

so am i right that all they have to do is update software and we would be able to watch dvds?

 

[casualimp]

[edit - beaten to the punch] So it's not an issue of just releasing a firmware update that will allow the laser to configure to both DVD and Wiidiscs is it?

Oh well... most people have DVD players anyway. Besides, if Nintendo does release a Wii with DVD playback later in `07, they'll probably come out with a new universal Wiimote for you to buy in order to use it like Sony and Microsoft did.

 

[SLrocket]

yes i believe that a driver would make it read DVD movies. 10 bucks on wiishop anyone?