Planning to exchange that aging Blu-ray player with a Wii U ? Not so fast. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the gaming console won’t play DVD or Blu-ray discs, because of patent licensing fees.
Wii U would not have DVD or Blu-ray playback capabilities. The cause of that’s that we feel that enough people have already got devices which are able to playing DVDs and Blu-ray, such that it didn’t warrant the value involved to construct that functionality into the Wii U console as a result of patents concerning those technologies.
So there you might have it. Iwata doesn’t wish to surrender a bag of money for baby Blu’s ” bag of hurt .” By the point the Wii U hits store shelves in 2012, we could also be buying Blu-ray players only for their Netflix capabilities , so here’s to hoping the console no less than carries over that functionality from its predecessor.
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