Nintendo has made it official, Wii U games will be on a proprietary disc that is not Blu-ray or DVD.
The confirmation comes via Nintendo president Satoru Iwata following a week of confusion and speculation as to exactly what Wii U games would be published on.
In explaining the move, Iwata says:
We feel that enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by bankai987: I cant believe Nintendo fails to realize how many proprietary formats have failed ex. UMD, beta-max,and possibly blu-ray its an enormous gamble. This might even be worse than UMD because this is a console, what ever happened with logical thinking.
Technically all game consoles use proprietary format. The Wii U games will be made on Standard Blu-Ray discs as the Wii games were made on standard DVDs. The only thing is that it cannot decode and play DVD and Blu-Ray Movies. This is not like a UMD disc or proprietary discs in any way.
"One of Nintendo‘s chief game designers let slip to Kotaku that the discs that will hold Wii U titles will be beefier than your average DVD. They are more like a Blu-ray disc, even though the drive won’t be a Blu-ray drive. They’ll be 25GB discs, and proprietary to Nintendo. That means not only did Nintendo release a new console yesterday, but they also invented a new optical storage technology just to go with it."
Yeah, just like the 'hardcore' guys all can't get their heads around why Wii sells so strongly?
Wii U is going to sell well, Nintendo's excellent reputation in gaming generally guarantees it - and the broader market they have pioneered will undoubtedly come back to them for more.
I have to laugh at the 'serious gamers' who all seem to despise the Wii and now Wii U, all that nonsense about how they are only played a few times & put away to gather dust.
Well here's the news guys, it might have been like that in your room guys but out in the real world people have thoroughly enjoyed the Wii, it is great fun and isn't ludicrously so far up its own ar$e in a rather silly tedious deadly seriousness.
There's every reason to expect Wii U to do very very well - just like Wii has done.
Yup...just as there is every reason to assume that the iPhone 7 and iPad14 will both sell very well next year...most people don't care about quality, features, or anything like that...they buy whatever the braindead bestbuy associate was told to sell to them.
Me, I wouldn't buy a Wii...I know 4 people who bought them...one is being used as an emulator station, the other three were sitting unused within 2 months of purchase. The problem was the same for all of them...the controls suck (although lack of games like GTA, Red Dead, Fallout, etc didn't help). I have one friend that left it connected because his TV has tons of ports on the back...we get a good laugh out of it when we see it, because it is covered in spiderwebs.
To those that say, "You can just use a standalone bluray player, who cares?":
How many ports do you have on your TV? Hypothetically speaking, if I were given a Wii U as a gift, I would have to buy a HDMIswitcher box in order to hook it up. My screen only has two HDMI ports...one is used by my PS3, the other by my DVR...and neither is going to get disconnected, especially if the Wii U can't even play movies.
Originally posted by KillerBug: Yup...just as there is every reason to assume that the iPhone 7 and iPad14 will both sell very well next year...most people don't care about quality, features, or anything like that...they buy whatever the braindead bestbuy associate was told to sell to them.
And the guy who runs out to be sold the Xbox 720 so he can play exactly the same FPS he played on the Xbox 360 and original Xbox -- only with 10 million more polygons than the previous generation -- is really a much finer connoisseur of gaming, right? Some people like Zelda; some people like Halo; some people like Final Fantasy. Some people want to try new control schemes; some people want to stick with old control schemes. Neither group is any more or less manipulated or wrong than the other. Vive la différence.
Quote:Hypothetically speaking, if I were given a Wii U as a gift, I would have to buy a HDMIswitcher box in order to hook it up. My screen only has two HDMI ports...one is used by my PS3, the other by my DVR...and neither is going to get disconnected, especially if the Wii U can't even play movies.
How would the Wii U's being able to play Blu-ray movies solve this problem? Which device would you be able to eliminate if it did?
I've no doubt that many of those self-styled 'serious' gamers hate the Wii (and often from what I've seen it's PS3 fanboy types who really can't get over how Wii won this gen).
But just because they don't like it that hardly tells the whole story.
Wii has captivated a huge market of people who love it and they have not put it away to collect dust.
Plainly it has great support - as huge sales of things like Wii Fit prove.
As for the complaint that Wii U is 'just' a game console & not a movie player for those with limited HDMI connectivity?
It's still not a big deal.
You can get HDMI switching units for buttons nowadays.
Just like blu-ray standalones are hardly mega-expensive now.
On the otherhand your best bet might be to get a proper HD audio receiver which is likely to have 4 or more HDMI inputs and (although you'll also need the necessary quality speaker set too) enjoy the HD audio your Blu-ray films offers you?
Personally I rate the best quality audio as THE big deal here.
They call it the WII U because calling it the WII 2 would deliver great Comedy. The Japanese word for 2 is Ni. Therefore it would be call the WII Ni (Weeny). Lots of Laughs about that one. Has any one seen Nintendo's Weeny?
