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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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While many consumers may not care about all the high-definition tom-foolery that comes with next-generation systems, hardcore gamers want it all. They want HDMI, they want surround sound, they want ...

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 ...

Remember just a couple weeks ago when we found out that an enhanced version of the Wii, featuring DVD playback, would appear in Japan next year for a slightly increased price? Supposedly, that version ...

Why does Japan always get the cool stuff? Maybe because they’re closer to where it all comes from. It’s just over two wiiks—sorry, weeks —until Nintendo’s Wii console arrives, and already there’s news ...

There has been much speculation as to why the Wii wasn't launched with the ability to play DVDs and CDs. Even further, people are wondering if the console will support it in a future release. If ...