What the PlayStation price was 3 at the start, because with Blu-ray disc as a game format, and double as a Blu-ray players part. Price are not the only risk, because at the time Blu-ray HD-DVD in the format wars fighting was. A few years later, we see developers use the large capacity of Blu-ray, while the Xbox 360 DVD9 format forces to fill larger games to multiple discs.

Nintendo therefore opt for a "high density proprietary optical disc", which is similar to Blu-ray in storage capacity. But despite going for more storage capacity, decided, as a whole and the Wii-U Blu-ray disc or DVD playback will provide not on Blu-ray format to skip them.

The Wii for DVD playback, not allowed, doing the odd considering that was Xbox 360, and the PS3 Blu-ray disc and DVD playback. Something that many were sure would the Wii & addresses be if questions why Nintendo from skip's, here's why:

The reason for this is that we justify the feeling that enough people already have devices, the playback of DVDs and Blu-ray, are, so that the cost to create it this functionality to the console of Wii U because the patents relating to these technologies.

At least that's what Nintendo head honcho, Satoru Iwata, said investors after E3. But, it can instant-streaming for Netflix. That is insufficient definitely something that Nintendo could make. The Wii does it, and console streaming by Netflix accounts for more than 20% of the total Internet bandwidth.

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