Can the Wii play DVDs?

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Originally posted by: tbike06
why would you feel that way?

and about the DVD thing, I am a poor college student, and don't have a DVD player, but I might be getting a Wii.

Does your computer have a DVD-ROM drive? Otherwise, a cheap DVD player will only set you back $30.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
No

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[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers

Originally posted by: VanTheMan
When companies try to cram too many different functions into hardware, the hardware usually ends up sucking at all of them. I'm glad that Nintendo didn't try to make the Wii some kind of magic "all-in-one" box. Then it would cost $600 instead of $250...

Yea, making the Wii play DVDs, when it already has an optical drive, is going to push costs up when standalone dvd players manage to cost $50. :disgust:

Cost of a DVD playback license is non-trivial. Nintendo doesn't get to build DVD playback into everything they make for free like Sony does, since they didn't help to create the standard.