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 ...

After a brief segment about the Nintendo Wii in “Morning Call”, CNBC announced that Sonic Systems will have an upgraded Wii in the second half of next year with a DVD player. Previously the upgraded ...

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 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 ...

The folks at Hackmii have released an installer which will will let you play DVDs on your Wii, something which Nintendo's console should really do already. You won't need to have a mod chip inside the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...