Nintendo confirms DVD-enabled Wii in '07

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Jonathan Sundy @ Nov 14th 2006 2:12PM

It's the cost of the licensing fee, not the laser. I'm pretty sure they're using a red laser for the GC disks, which is the same thing DVD uses.

The problem is the licensing fee charged to each device that can play dvds, which iirc is around $20 per unit. Could be completely off though, haven't heard it even mentioned for years.

I agree that it should be a downloadable firmware update. Using cd distribution would probably make it too easy to pirate.

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james @ Nov 14th 2006 4:24PM

I wasnt aware thats how it works...but i cant image its that much...SO on my PS2 i purchased for $99, $20 of it went to a licensing fee?

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