Will the Wii U finally play movies??

There is no excuse for the Wii not playing movies.

cyberstalker1

Its probably going to have Netflix and Hulu. And besides, I already have a PC that can play DVDs and a DVD player and even a TV that can play DVDs and soon I might have a PS3 that can play Blue ray. So no need to have another device that can play DVDs.

Doubt it. Few people care at this point.SaltyMeatballs

I'm one of the few people that cares.

Why shouldn't Nintendo at least offer me the option to pay to activate DVD playback on the WiiU, even if the feature is initially disabled to save them paying the royalty fee and to avoid adding any extra cost onto the out-the-box price of the unit (so people that don't want CD/DVD playback don't have to worry about paying for it in the basic price of the hardware), if I actually decide I want to choose add that feature at my own expense? Not at least letting me choose to do that at my own expense does not benefit anyone in the slightest and only serves to piss off people like me for no good reason at all.

[QUOTE="cyberstalker1"]

There is no excuse for the Wii not playing movies.

trugs26

Neither of those are actually very good excuses for those people that want to be able to play CDs/DVDs on their Nintendo home consoles.

Actually it has many good excuses not to. One, it'll have netflix, which is better anyways. Two, almost everyone has a dvd player now, so making them use more money to add in dvd player capabilities would be a waste, and not just for them but for us as well since then we'd have to basically pay more for another dvd player.

[QUOTE="trugs26"]

[QUOTE="cyberstalker1"]

There is no excuse for the Wii not playing movies.

amaneuvering

Neither of those are actually very good excuses for those people that want to be able to play CDs/DVDs on their Nintendo home consoles.

[QUOTE="cyberstalker1"]

There is no excuse for the Wii not playing movies.

MetroidPrimePwn

Well, except for the licensing fees required, and the fact that it wears out the disc-reader faster than just playing games would, both of which are pretty valid excuses.

[QUOTE="amaneuvering"]

[QUOTE="trugs26"]
There is one. The GCN or Wii didn't have DVD playback because they think that there is a already enough DVD players occupying homes. Thus with every generation, there is even more reason for Nintendo not to add a DVD player.

Another excuse is not paying royalties.

There you go, two excuses.

Dycras

Neither of those are actually very good excuses for those people that want to be able to play CDs/DVDs on their Nintendo home consoles.

See my post above.

So many ignorant people assume they would have to somehow fork up the expense for this when it could simply be a small fee each individual who wants the feature could choose to pay to activate it via a simple download file firmware update.

No cost to the likes of you whatsoever.

no but i already have 3 blu ray players

no but i already have 3 blu ray players

dontshackzmii

See my posts above.

It's obviously not for you but it is for people like me, at no expense or hassle to people like you whatsoever.

I rather use netflix instead.

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[QUOTE="WomanDog"]

If it has netflix, I could care less about dvd's and blurays.

kingjazziephiz

CAN SOMEONE SAY SHEEP.

I like Netflix for browsing around and watching random b-movies, foreign titles, and some TV miniseries or classic TV shows . But to be honest here, netflix only has about 5% of the movies I'm looking for if I actually set out to search for something SPECIFIC. It's missing many, many very important films. If you look at a list of top 100 or top 1000 films of all time it probably has a very low % of them.

Blu-Ray offers the highest and most consistent quality. I love that at least blu-ray is a reason for great films to get brand new restorations and new transfers that are far beyond what was possible 10-15 years ago when they were last worked on for the purposes of digitizing onto the DVD format. Watching something like Ben-Hur or 2001: Space Odyssey on a big screen and it's absolutely incredible how perfect the images can be on a 50 year old film when given the blu-ray treatment. Those films got full restorations, and then were scanned at 8K resolution prior to mastering the blu-rays. Those native 8K scans are probably the ultimate transfers that will even be used on a next generation media format (which is probably going to be a 4K format).

Of course DVD still offers the biggest library of titles with MANY films that aren't yet available on Blu-Ray or Netflix (a large number probably never make it to Blu-Ray due to the expense of fully restoring films, and Netflix will never be able to afford a "complete" catalogue either). Still, blu-ray library has been getting lots of awesome releases and starting to get better coverage of catalogue titles - right now it seems to be hitting it's stride. Blu-Ray is still missing plenty of classic early hollywood and even some major titles of the last 20 years, but there are still hidden gems being released every month and it's getting closer to where 100% of the "Heavy Hitting" titles are covered (I.e. something like Star Wars from this year, or upcoming Indiana Jones trilogy or ET next year). Anyone truly interested in the best of the best will have to watch on blu-ray for at least for the next few years as that is where the best quality is. To me streaming will probably be a step behind for at least the next 10 years, because even when they finally catch up to blu-ray with using full 1080P all the time with better online compression, by that time there will probably be some 4K format which is on disc and will again raise the bar against streaming for those interested in the best quality...that is assuming that the online streaming services can get their catalogues anywhere near what is needed to be considered close to "complete"...

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[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"] Outside of having an all in one media device that everyone seems to like? There's the whole competition offering it angle or the fact iwata has gone on record saying Wii u will be expensive. As a consumer I want Nintendo to deliver tons of features at a great price. MFDOOM1983

consumers dont give a damn about dvd playback in a system...are we seriously arguing about this?

why would they pay their competiton for dvd playback? they outsold the competition without it this gen...dvd playback is not a mega feature idk many people that use a system for dvd playback except for ps3 but that was when it was the cheapest blu ray player at the time and it played games so it was a good deal before

I also wonder if it will actually play good games. The Wii didn't.

WarTornRuston

[QUOTE="Dycras"]

[QUOTE="amaneuvering"]

Neither of those are actually very good excuses for those people that want to be able to play CDs/DVDs on their Nintendo home consoles.

amaneuvering

See my post above.

So many ignorant people assume they would have to somehow fork up the expense for this when it could simply be a small fee each individual who wants the feature could choose to pay to activate it via a simple download file firmware update.

No cost to the likes of you whatsoever.

[QUOTE="LastRambo341"][QUOTE="Tikeio"]

A hacked Nintendo Wii pla........ can't say anymore on here. ;)

MFDOOM1983

Really? My American games worked on it

[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"][QUOTE="LastRambo341"] And also the Gamecube Panasonic...which wasn't a successLastRambo341

Really? My American games worked on it

[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"][QUOTE="Mario1331"]

consumers dont give a damn about dvd playback in a system...are we seriously arguing about this?

Mario1331

why would they pay their competiton for dvd playback? they outsold the competition without it this gen...dvd playback is not a mega feature idk many people that use a system for dvd playback except for ps3 but that was when it was the cheapest blu ray player at the time and it played games so it was a good deal before

Just because nintendo would have to pay $ .40 more per wii-u manufactured does not mean that cost would be passed on to consumers. I'm sure they'll have a big cushion(selling at profit) like every other device they've ever sold.

[QUOTE="LastRambo341"]

[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"] Only released in Japan and had a huge mark up. MFDOOM1983

Really? My American games worked on it

[QUOTE="Mario1331"]

[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"] They need features that have been offered in consoles for 10 years now if nintendo is serious about selling wii-u at a premium price point This includes dvd and blu-ray playback. MFDOOM1983

why would they pay their competiton for dvd playback? they outsold the competition without it this gen...dvd playback is not a mega feature idk many people that use a system for dvd playback except for ps3 but that was when it was the cheapest blu ray player at the time and it played games so it was a good deal before

Just because nintendo would have to pay $ .40 more per wii-u manufactured does not mean that cost would be passed on to consumers. I'm sure they'll have a big cushion(selling at profit) like every other device they've ever sold.

im a fanboy because the addition of dvd playback is unneccessary? or you feel since sony and ms do it so should nintendo? they all their own companies and they should do what they please doesnt make me a fanboy just make me a realist.

its not needed its a feature you will prbably use once a month i dont get why its "neccessary" for them to have it.

what nintendo console is expensive please explain that the wii and 3ds are very affordable as of now

[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"]

[QUOTE="Mario1331"]

why would they pay their competiton for dvd playback? they outsold the competition without it this gen...dvd playback is not a mega feature idk many people that use a system for dvd playback except for ps3 but that was when it was the cheapest blu ray player at the time and it played games so it was a good deal before

Mario1331

Just because nintendo would have to pay $ .40 more per wii-u manufactured does not mean that cost would be passed on to consumers. I'm sure they'll have a big cushion(selling at profit) like every other device they've ever sold.

im a fanboy because the addition of dvd playback is unneccessary? or you feel since sony and ms do it so should nintendo? they all their own companies and they should do what they please doesnt make me a fanboy just make me a realist.

its not needed its a feature you will prbably use once a month i dont get why its "neccessary" for them to have it.

what nintendo console is expensive please explain that the wii and 3ds are very affordable as of now

[QUOTE="WomanDog"]

If it has netflix, I could care less about dvd's and blurays.

farrell2k