When Nintendo dished out its final specifications for the Wii, there seemed to be one glaring omission--DVD playback. With the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 touting built-in multimedia players, the Wii ...

Nintendo has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that there are plans to launch a new version of the Wii featuring DVD playback functionality in Japan. The Wii's original spec sheet said the console would ...

If you were hoping your next-generation Nintendo Wii U would double as a DVD or Blu-ray player in your living room, you're out of luck. According to Kotaku, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just ...

The Sony PlayStation 3 doubles as a Blu-ray player, the Xbox 360 now has a HD-DVD player add-on, and the Nintendo Wii plays... well, nothing except its own games and Gamecube's. The fact that the Wii ...

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With news that the Wii U won't be compatible with GameCube games, and that the console's proprietary disc format is able to hold an amount of data that rivals the PlayStation 3, we naturally wonder if ...

Click to viewUpdate: You can now hack your Wii even more easily, and you don't need to buy anything to do it. Here's how. Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken ...

While many consumers may not care about all the high-definition tom-foolery that comes with next-generation systems, hardcore gamers want it all. They want HDMI, they want surround sound, they want ...

When Microsoft and Sony were engaged in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format wars at the beginning of the current-console generation, Nintendo opted to abstain from video playback entirely with the Wii. Now, ...

Nintendo's new generation of stationary game machine "Wii U" which was extensively announced at "E3 2011" held in Los Angeles, USA"High density optical disc" that enables recording of large capacity ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has confirmed that Wii U won't have support for Blu-ray or DVD playback. Games will use high density optical discs for the system, but Iwata has said Wii U won't ...