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 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 ...

We have talked all about the Wii U since the new console made its debut at E3 and we know just about all there is to know about it at this point. We know that the console will use game discs with a ...

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 ...

Click to viewUpdate: You can now hack your Wii even more easily, and you don't need to buy anything to do it. Here's how. Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken ...

Planning to replace 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, due to patent licensing fees. Wii U ...

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 ...

Nintendo has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that there are plans to launch a new version of the Wii featuring DVD playback functionality in Japan. The Wii's original spec sheet said the console would ...

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 ...

If you were hoping your next-generation Nintendo Wii U would double as a DVD or Blu-ray player in your living room, you're out of luck. According to Kotaku, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just ...

Nintendo consoles have a long history of focusing on gaming and nothing more, and the recently announced Wii U won't change that. In a Q&A on Nintendo's website, President and CEO Satoru Iwata ...