Re: EXPECT Blu-ray INSIDE the XBOX 360... just in time for the HOLIDAYS.

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Why waste my hard earned money on something that will die out in a couple of years?

Oh, I have this suspicion that downloads won`t even kill the standard dvd rental model in a couple of years. I know you got burned that way with HD DVD, but you should have known that we were into a high-def media format war, and that the industry predicted only one format would prevail. Since that has come to pass, it`s time to join us in the world of reality.

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Microsoft vs Sony aside, the Wii is not currently a hi-def device, but could eventually add a Blu-ray drive for future development of Wii-HD games?... possible.

Since the Wii has established itself in the gaming console world I can see them adding a bluray drive in their second generation models. Imagine all those games in hidef. That would be pretty cool.

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Counter this with the previous reports that Nintendo is likely to include a DVD drive in the Wii this year

Wii already has one, but Nintendo is not enabling DVD playback to avoid $15 DVD royalty.

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but apparently you'll have none of this possibility, as you said - "the same Nintendo that won't enable DVD playback on Wii to save $15 royalty?"

Exactly, the same Nintendo that won't pay $15 to enable DVD playback in Wii.

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Well, I've heard different (although the company has not yet made a definite confirmation/announcement) - reported late last year (INFO) - It looks like a recent posting on Nintendo’s Japanese website referring to Wii DVD playback is 100% kosher and not some kind of cruel hoax…

Yea, and why don't you stick a DVD movie disc into Wii and see what happens?

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According to a Q&A on the site the new functionality will be added in 2008

Actually Nintendo was referring to a separate higher priced model.

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We wonder what other surprises Nintendo has got up its sleeve…?

You expect too much from Nintendo, the same bunch that sells $80 Wii for $250.

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Further... I suggested that Nintendo might add a Blu-ray drive sometime in the future

Yea, the same Nintendo that won't enable DVD playback to avoid $15 royalty...

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as the popularity of HD games increases

HD games don't require Blu-Ray, as Xbox 360 has proven.

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and responded with "Zero possibility based on history."

Yes, zero chance.

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But I'm talking about the FUTURE... to the day when Blu-ray's growth and adoption is much greater than it is now

Blu-Ray sales is collapsing, not increasing, according to NPD.

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There's no other disc technology in HD that offers greater quality and potential than Blu-ray

The market is shifting to downloading.

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and it shouldn't be much further in the future that a 200GB Blu-ray disc is ready for production (and probably affordable).

Blu-Ray cannot be pressed in more than two layers. You are confusing RAM with ROM(DL max).

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Microsoft vs Sony aside, the Wii is not currently a hi-def device, but could eventually add a Blu-ray drive for future development of Wii-HD games?... possible.

That shows that you don't understand the mind set of Yamauchi Hiroshi and Iwata Satoru.

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Since that has come to pass, it`s time to join us in the world of reality.

The world of reality is that Blu-Ray is not selling.

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Since the Wii has established itself in the gaming console world I can see them adding a bluray drive in their second generation models. Imagine all those games in hidef. That would be pretty cool.

Nintendo doesn't care about highdef. And you don't need Blu-Ray for highdef games, as Xbox 360 has proven.

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You expect too much from Nintendo, the same bunch that sells $80 Wii for $250.

Perhaps you don't expect enough. After all, the competitors are selling theirs for a loss, and Nintendo is selling theirs for not just a small gain, but a HUGE one. It's why Nintendo is more profitable as a game company than Sony and Microsoft combined.

Yeah, I don't see Nintendo adding a Blu-Ray drive to it's console anytime soon. It took Nintendo almost three years to release DVD in a console nevermind, think of HD? Remember Wii's target age is 6-16. yes, it is now proven to be more widespread than that, but I can see a Wii upgrade happening. Maybe five years from now, once they have beaten the Wii to end of its life.

For the Record: Pipelining Architecture
Here's the direct link. Click on the PDF.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=356683.356687

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Pipelining is one form of imbedding
parallelism or concurrency in a computer
system. It refers to a segmentation of a
computational process (say, an instruction)
into several subprocesses which are executed
by dedicated autonomous units (facilities,
pipelining segments). Successive processes
(instructions) can be carried out in an
overlapped mode analogous to an industrial
assembly line. So, very loosely, pipelining
can be defined as the technique of decomposing
a repeated sequential process into
subprocesses, each of which can be executed
efficiently on a special dedicated autouomous
module that operates concurrently
with the others.

[Post edited by ReaggieP on May 6, 2008]

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Maybe five years from now, once they have beaten the Wii to end of its life.

Then you get another Nintendo console with DVD drive that is not actually DVD compliant(and save on $15 royalty). Xbox 3 will be getting a $20 red-laser drive with 20 GB capacity from Taiwan. No need to bother with $80 Blu-Ray drive and $60 royalty at all.

The shortcoming of your thinking is that Blu-Ray is the only way to get increased data capacity in the future it isn't. There are half dozen much cheaper alternatives to choose from.

Hey whatever happened to that VAPORWARE "Super Upconverter"... Still don't see it anywhere on earth?

[Post edited by xplaytendo on May 6, 2008]

fee...what ever happened to Toshiba's "Super Upconversion" :

Dm.
Your right. You don't need 50g blu-ray discs to have hd. gaming. BUT WE DO HAVE 50G DISCS FOR HD GAMING! WHY WOULDNT YOU WANT TO USE THAT???????????

JIMI, I wouldn't expect to ever see Wii games in true HD, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a BR drive in Nintendo's next console, although it's too soon to speculate.