Wii U will not play DVD and Blu Ray movies

[Foxi4]

Of course I can blame them. The main goal of every person on earth is having only one box next to the TV that hopefuly does everything.

The PS3 can play DVD's and BluRays, the Xbox360 can play DVD's, why are the Nintendo consoles the only ones that don't? They're so afraid of piracy, yet they always seem to fail in the protection department in 1st place. They could just as well include the functionality and just "forget aboot it".

As far as Royalties are concerned, they're nothing compared to the benefits in sales they'd get for adding a function that's vital for many users. If you like the space around your TV set to be cluttered, okay - that's you. You're in the minority though as far as I know.

 

[xakota]

I don't really give a shit because I have a Blu Ray player, but it WOULD be nice to stream HD porn to my New Controller without mom seeing.

 

[serpenter]

I use PC for DVD/Blue Ray and everything else - As long as my Wii U runs my games, i'm happy at that.

 

[Foxi4]

I don't really give a shit because I have a Blu Ray player, but it WOULD be nice to stream HD porn to my New Controller without mom seeing.

The controller screen isn't HD anyways, but yes, it'd be great to watch porn movies wherever you want. You're watching a movie, bam, someone else needs to use the TV or you're going to the toilet - click, and you take the movie with you. Absolutely brilliant.

CUTTING DOWN FUNCTIONALITY DOES NOT EQUAL BETTER ANTI-PIRACY PROTECTION. IT'S BEING TWATS.

 

[Hielkenator]

Of course I can blame them. The main goal of every person on earth is having only one box next to the TV that hopefuly does everything.

The PS3 can play DVD's and BluRays, the Xbox360 can play DVD's, why are the Nintendo consoles the only ones that don't? They're so afraid of piracy, yet they always seem to fail in the protection department in 1st place. They could just as well include the functionality and just "forget aboot it".

As far as Royalties are concerned, they're nothing compared to the benefits in sales they'd get for adding a function that's vital for many users. If you like the space around your TV set to be cluttered, okay - that's you. You're in the minority though as far as I know.

You are one of those guys that wants "one ruler for the whole world" aren't you?
If this move get the Wii U cheaper, I'm all for excluding movie playback.

 

[Master Mo]

TBH I don`t care since my TV has direct playback for .mkvs so there is no need to use an extra console for that. I also don`t use any kind of discs if you know what I mean

 

[DiscostewSM]

It would have been nice to have DVD/Bluray movie playback with the unit, but a case where that is the only thing you own that has that playback in a household with more than one person, if someone wanted to watch a movie, you couldn't use the system for anything else but the movie, leading to the need for having a separate disc player if you wanted to watch a movie + play a game.

 

[paul1991returns]

I don't think that cutting down functionality is any form of Anti-Piracy. It's simply cost cutting.

However, look the dreamcast. The dreamcast could play music CDs. An exploit was found that allowed a disc to be read as an audio CD, but booted as a game. The Dreamcast does NOT require a modchip to pirate games BECAUSE of extra functonality.

If the wii could play DVDs natively, it would not have made pirating games any easier. It is possible that an exploit might have been found to allow the wii the read a burned game thinking that it was a dvd. Maybe, but not likely. After the DC, I think that Nintendo learned a lesson.

I am okay with the fact that nintendo is cutting costs. Blu-ray is evil and I have too many DVD players. Why would I pay more for a console because it has functionality that I don't need?

Seriously Fox, I don't think Nintendo is the twat in this situation.

 

[Foxi4]

You are one of those guys that wants "one ruler for the whole world" aren't you?
If this move get the Wii U cheaper, I'm all for excluding movie playback.

Not really. I just honestly believe that if the drive they're jamming in has BluRay and/or DVD Video capabilities, there's absolutely no need whatsoever to cut those out. I wouldn't really cry much if it makes the console $20 more expensive.

But why am I even bothered, it'll play DVD's and BluRays as soon as it's Homebrewed.

 

[Nollog]

No DVD playback is not about anti-piracy.
That's the worst logic you people have ever used.
DVD playback has nothing to do with piracy what so ever.

You're also not counting the costs of developing a player for the DVD discs, there's a ton of patents, not just the DVD disc patent, and the massive amount of work that would go into a media player for DVD and BD movie playback.
The costs are pretty big, and it's something that most people don't really care about.
Give it to them and sure "that's nice", but it's not something people actively go out and look for.

 

[cris92x]

I don't really give a shit because I have a Blu Ray player, but it WOULD be nice to stream HD porn to my New Controller without mom seeing.

The controller screen isn't HD anyways, but yes, it'd be great to watch porn movies wherever you want. You're watching a movie, bam, someone else needs to use the TV or you're going to the toilet - click, and you take the movie with you. Absolutely brilliant.

CUTTING DOWN FUNCTIONALITY DOES NOT EQUAL BETTER ANTI-PIRACY PROTECTION. IT'S BEING TWATS.

It's not for anti-piracy get that through your fucking head, nintendo doesn't want to pay licensing fees, it was going to be waste for the wii because everybody already had a dvd player. Hell, I have yet to see somebody use a gaming console as a dvd/blu ray player more than they use netflix on it, the future isn't in physical media.

 

[Foxi4]

I don't really give a shit because I have a Blu Ray player, but it WOULD be nice to stream HD porn to my New Controller without mom seeing.

The controller screen isn't HD anyways, but yes, it'd be great to watch porn movies wherever you want. You're watching a movie, bam, someone else needs to use the TV or you're going to the toilet - click, and you take the movie with you. Absolutely brilliant.

CUTTING DOWN FUNCTIONALITY DOES NOT EQUAL BETTER ANTI-PIRACY PROTECTION. IT'S BEING TWATS.

It's not for anti-piracy get that through your fucking head, nintendo doesn't want to pay licensing fees, it was going to be waste for the wii because everybody already had a dvd player. Hell, I have yet to see somebody use a gaming console as a dvd/blu ray player more than they use netflix on it, the future isn't in physical media.

And there I thought that the PS3 is actually the most popular BluRay player on the market. Oh, right. Because it is. Get that through your head.

 

[Nollog]

And there I thought that the PS3 is actually the most popular BluRay player on the market. Oh, right. Because it is. Get that through your head.

Because it supports updates that other players didn't up to a year ago.
Because it's still cheaper than most players.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Don't care TBH. BluRay is a dying format. I was surprised this thing is coming with any optical media anyway. I sort of expected everything to go DL only next gen.

 

[cris92x]

I don't really give a shit because I have a Blu Ray player, but it WOULD be nice to stream HD porn to my New Controller without mom seeing.

The controller screen isn't HD anyways, but yes, it'd be great to watch porn movies wherever you want. You're watching a movie, bam, someone else needs to use the TV or you're going to the toilet - click, and you take the movie with you. Absolutely brilliant.

CUTTING DOWN FUNCTIONALITY DOES NOT EQUAL BETTER ANTI-PIRACY PROTECTION. IT'S BEING TWATS.

It's not for anti-piracy get that through your fucking head, nintendo doesn't want to pay licensing fees, it was going to be waste for the wii because everybody already had a dvd player. Hell, I have yet to see somebody use a gaming console as a dvd/blu ray player more than they use netflix on it, the future isn't in physical media.

And there I thought that the PS3 is actually the most popular BluRay player on the market. Oh, right. Because it is. Get that through your head.

It also used to cost 600 dollars when it first came out, and sony already pays for licensing fees for other standalone blu ray players. Nintendo is just a game console and like i said only idiots believe that physical media playback is a dealbreaker, netflix is used wayy more often for watching movies than blu ray discs.

 

[paul1991returns]

But why am I even bothered, it'll play DVD's and BluRays as soon as it's Homebrewed.

If Nintendo had not left DVD reading functionality in the Wii, I doubt homebrew would have ever supported it.

Have you read ANY of the articles on HackMii?

The wii had functionality that allowed it to read dvds as long as a channel was launched. Or something like that. It has been a while.
Of course the AHBPROT fail made this unnecessary.

 

[Kwartel]

Hmmm.. It would be nice to have dvd streaming to the controller when other people want to watch tv.. :/

 

[Foxi4]

Don't care TBH. BluRay is a dying format. I was surprised this thing is coming with any optical media anyway. I sort of expected everything to go DL only next gen.

We're not on that stage of Networking yet. Do you *really* feel like downloading 12 Gig games everytime you make a purchase? Because that's the average size of a video game nowadays. Not only that, do you really want to experience a 2 Tera Hard Drive failure and be forced to replace the drive and re-download all your games? I sure as hell don't.

I'll be all for downloadable content as soon as SSD drives become cheaper and 100Mbit/s connections become available and cheap for the common folk. I actually prefere to keep my media in beautiful jewelboxes. It's the "collection factor" that's so appealing in it.

 

[Valwin]

At this point, there really is no excuse not to have simple media playback. I'm hoping it can play divx and such at least.

justp play from the internal memory every haves a stiking dvd no need for the wii u to play them i saw a dvd player just 10 dollars

 

[ThePowerOutage]

Blu-Ray was expected, since they would have to pay Sony iirc, but DVD? Seriously?