Wii U Not Compatible with DVD or Blu-ray

[upgrade_1977]

[citation][nom]f-gomes[/nom]Wrong. I am a PC guy, and have resisted as much as I could to buying a console. I give up, I will have to joing the bandwagon, and I will be looking for a console that can play DVD and Bluray, so that I can skip bying a BD player and can get rid of the DVD player.Any console should be able to play mainstream media.[/citation]

LOL, funny...

 

[upgrade_1977]

[citation][nom]TheViper[/nom]Upgrade_1977, they'll use a 25 GB Blu-ray for games. An internal flash memory system of 8 GB for basic game saves and USB or SDHC for mass storage.[/citation]
But..... The article just said it isn't gonna have Blu-Ray...?? OH>>> I just reread it, lol, my bad, no Blu-Ray playback capability... Ooops..

 

[liquidchild]

And by not compatible they mean you will have to type in "PASSWORD" to get it to be compatible........

 

[TheDuke]

At first I was annoyed but then I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I played a DVD movie in my PS3 or 360 and still have yet to purchase a Blu-Ray movie.

 

[dalethepcman]

[citation][nom]vistaofdoom[/nom]People that think in DX iterations while talking about consoles should be shot.[/citation]

Yes, you should drag out and shoot every xbox 360 programer. If the hardware doesn't support the features of the newest set of production software instructions, then its outdated on release day, much like the Nintendo Wii.

 

[TheViper]

Dalethepcman, the Xbox and X360 are the only consoles that utilize the Direct 3D API. On a console, it's not necessary since they don't run Windows. Unless you are trying to tell me the PS3 was outdated when it launched too.

 

[kinggraves]

[citation][nom]dark_lord69[/nom]Not even DVD huh?This is what I was talking about Nintendo not getting what people really want and why they should quit making consoles and just make games. I don't like having to buy nintendo consoles just for Zelda, Mario and the rest of the gang...[/citation]

You don't like buying a game console to play games?

Nintendo for once is looking at future market trends, instead of present ones like they did with Wii. (HD isnt in everyone's homes yet, we don't need it). Have you people bought any new tech lately? TVs, Blu Ray players, everything is coming with streaming content networking. That is the future of media, not optical discs. Get a decent TV nowadays and it can be networked, not even an extra device, the TV itself, so why do I need a BR player? If you people were real gamers and playing games with the machine, you wouldn't want any movies wearing out your laser prematurely.

It's a wise move shaving a bit off that price. Nintendo isn't looking to be a Playstation, it's there to make games, not movies. Ask the average person why they bought a PS3 and it was to have a Bluray player. That isn't Nintendo's audience.

 

[Marnad]

I'm sorry, but with the price of a Blu-ray drive being relatively cheap now - this does nothing but solidify Nintendo's target towards kids.

Having said that, I grew up on Nintendo consoles and have always been a fan, but I can't help to feel shafted. In this day and age, a $300 - $400 console should be able to play high definition movies - period.

Unless they do something absolutely mind-blowing with this console, I'll likely pass. Sorry Nintendo...

 

[dark_lord69]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]You don't like buying a game console to play games?Nintendo for once is looking at future market trends, instead of present ones like they did with Wii. (HD isnt in everyone's homes yet, we don't need it). Have you people bought any new tech lately? TVs, Blu Ray players, everything is coming with streaming content networking. That is the future of media, not optical discs. Get a decent TV nowadays and it can be networked, not even an extra device, the TV itself, so why do I need a BR player? If you people were real gamers and playing games with the machine, you wouldn't want any movies wearing out your laser prematurely.It's a wise move shaving a bit off that price. Nintendo isn't looking to be a Playstation, it's there to make games, not movies. Ask the average person why they bought a PS3 and it was to have a Bluray player. That isn't Nintendo's audience.[/citation]
I bought a PS3 for the games and because I am a gamer. My PS2 died and I had tons of ps2 games and no console so yeah, I bought a PS3 right when it came out. But I didn't buy it so it can play blurays, dvds and netflix but those are just nice benifits that made it more worth buying. That's all I'm saying... They could be nicer about it and offer people more capability for thier money.

 

[ricdiculus]

to all you elitest gamers who po-poed nintendos choice of video card and preach the virtues of gazzilion by gazillion resolution for gaming, how are you satisfied with streaming video/movies?? no one streams in "uncompressed" 1080p resolution. None. it simply takes to much bandwidth. BluRays are indeed compressed, but nothing like Sat/Cable/Internet. BluRay format simply blows all other formats away as far as image quality.Period. If you cant see that, then why all the concern over the resolution of consoles vs. PC. Sorry but when it comes to watching movies, I am a pixel snob. I watched Netflix once, and the quality is just not there. Personaly, I grew up with a 2600 and Combat, so I can live with the gamming resolution. But film on the other hand has infinate resolution and that is apparent when watching a well produced BluRay comparred to a DVD or even worse streamed content. The hole BluRay is dead argument just boggles my tiny little mind.

 

[dormantreign]

Zelda 1080p.....Don't care about Bluray.....Have only watched 2 in its entire release. Always download H.264 versions.

 

[FloKid]

Maybe they just don't know how.

 

[need4speeds]

Its a 800 shader gpu like the hd-4870.

You are all missing the boat, if amd has RV770 chips around that have flawed video sections but the shaders are still ok, then this would be the reason to ditch blue ray. also making a custom format is mostly to stop people from making game disk copies.

It is probably just a blue ray drive that they made run backwards. So custom disks that have the tracks backwards too. It is so you can't buy media or drives for the wii U, its to try and stop the modders and hackers. I am sure it wont work for long and soon there will be mods to make a regular blue ray drive work or something.

The 4870 to 6790 are all based on the same chip, mostly it was a die shrink with a updated video section. So the flawed 6790's,5770's should work as 4870 chips with the video sections partly disabled. Any of the 4870 to 6790 chips can run at 4870 speeds with ease. Because of the heat and current i doubt actual 55nm RV770 chips will ever be used, and maybe a custom run of 45nm or 32nm wafers will be made of RV770 chips will be made when the stockpile of flawed chips runs out. I am sure they will also make it run in 128 bit mode so it is compatible. All of the 5xxx and 6xxx chips are down compatible with dx10.
Even a 5830 or 6850 can be made into a 800 shader gpu.

 

[fir_ser]

This isn’t good news.

 

[Guest]

@TheViper
Try using a shader language without an API, you can't. They have reduce the bloat on DirectX and removed a lot of overhead from it in DX10 and DX11. Yes DirectX is irrelevant on game consoles, even the 360 SDK API is different, they are just different markets.

 

[TheViper]

[nom]Dogs[/nom]@TheViperTry using a shader language without an API, you can't. They have reduce the bloat on DirectX and removed a lot of overhead from it in DX10 and DX11. Yes DirectX is irrelevant on game consoles, even the 360 SDK API is different, they are just different markets.
Being different markets has nothing to do with why consoles don't need Direct3D. It's because consoles are not Windows based.

OpenGL is used on video game consoles.

 

[mikies]

Does anyone use discs anymore? Seems like Blue Ray is soooo behind us.

 

[neblix]

Why people actually care about stuff that has NOTHING TO DO WITH GAMES on a news item about a GAME SYSTEM is beyond my comprehension.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I think not supporting the standards might be good to battle piracy, but I'd have to admit that I would've expected bluray support. But oh well, I've never even touched a bluray disc despite having installed serveral bluray drives in computers.

 

[Rusting In Peace]

This makes perfect sense for Nintendo and consumers.

Nintendo will want to avoid having to give money to Sony via Blu-ray licensing. However it does make sense to have the hardware as blu-ray as they don't need the R&D costs of another format. Adding on a propriety read system, like they've done in the past, presumably will make piracy a little harder.

If they implement some streaming feature the media type is somewhat moot anyway.

All of this makes the cost of the console cheaper. Whether Nintendo actually pass these savings onto the consumer is another matter. The point is that they could.