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 ...

At E3 2005, Nintendo showed off its next-generation console, then code-named "Revolution." Besides being the successor to the GameCube, the machine was to be the first Nintendo console to offer the ...

Nintendo has taken a big gamble with their new Wii console, not only because of the motion-based control system, but because they have eschewed huge generational leaps in computational horsepower in ...

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It looks like DVD playback is finally available for Wii, but it doesn’t come from Nintendo and it will require you to have a modded console —like those Nintendo doesn’t want you to have. Team Symbiote ...

Originally the Wii was going to be released with a built in player, but when the final specs arrived Nintendo the DVD feature was removed. Now Gameindustry.biz confirmed that an “enhanced” Wii is in ...

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Since the Wii was released I have had a burning question in my mind, why can't it play DVDs or CDs? It's a feature that seems so simple and basic that we almost take it for granted. The Xbox 360 and ...

Since we're already in the spirit of covering movie-playback downgrades on other upcoming hardware platforms, let's keep the ball rolling. Matt Casamassina, IGN's long-suffering embedded Nintendo ...

I bought a Wii, which replaced my PS3 as the living room console. I knew the drive was a DVD drive, but apparently I didn't do enough research. Actually it never occurred to me that Nintendo would not ...

It looks like Nintendo will be following the same pattern as the original Wii console with their new Wii U console, and it appears that the Wii U will not come with the ability to play DVD or Blu-ray ...

Nintendo‘s upcoming high-definition platform will not support DVD or Blu-ray playback. Speaking during an E3 Analyst Q&A Session, Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata said that “it didn’t warrant ...