Wii Breaks Sales Records While Third Parties Flee System

[lazyfatbum]

The Wii can already play DVDs if they just sell a codec in their online store. Hackers have already made some DVD decoders for modded Wiis.

Thats why I said its a software and hardware update, if you used the hack tools you'll also know it takes about 5 years to load a DVD.

I can't imagine that they would ever have the need to remove Gamecube compatibility. It's not like the PS3 where the PS2 hardware was completely seperate from the PS3 hardware. In the case of the Wii, the Gamecube hardware IS the Wii hardware.

There has to be hardware and software separately to run the gamecube games, including in these but not limited to the actual jacks for the controllers and memory cards plus the operating system to hold data separately for the gamecube things. It's a cost factor that could bring a 200 dollar Wii to a 150 dollar Wii with the same margin of profit for Nintendo. Combine that with the idea of a hard drive, downloadable Gamecube games that run strictly off an emulator, now you have a 200 dollar Wii with a hard drive with the same margin of profit that Nintendo was at. Pop on 50 bucks becuase of the new hardware upgrade, now Nintendo has increased their profit margin total by 50%.

Eh the Wii may not see any major updates after all, what with the economy and such.

its sort of the opposite though with the entertainment industry, dont you think? The more things suck in the real world, the more people want to escape. What was that Avatar budget again? ...what's its current rank on the highest grossing movies of all time?

I'm not sure what your comment was supposed to mean about "lrn2television". I assume you've learned since then, or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube

I don't care what your ignorant teacher told you about how TVs work. It wasn't an engineering class, they can be excused for not knowing how it works I suppose, but you can't be excused for ignoring one guide after another I've linked showing exactly how it works. Electrons CAN'T reach your eyes and your eyes DON'T see electrons!

It must have done something to your eyes to make you that blind.

ABF/ I think the PS3 hit its stride, it didnt make Abyss waves, but it stirred the ocean a bit. What will happen now I think is that Nintendo will hit its second wind this year, but its lul will be more than a drought, it will probably kill the system, in two years we'll be getting info or release dates for Wii2 HD etc etc but the Wii itself wont have jack. Natal is going to destroy the market like Godzilla to Tokyo and reap all the benefits of what the Wii was attempting to do. Those high hardware numbers for wii are 'one-time-players'. They got a wii with wiifit, played it for 3 months and either never touched it again or bought their son and daughter DS and 360 games. Cuz they sure as shit aren't buying Wii games. That means after the golden year of top AAA games from Nintendo and the third parties last hoorah it will be rock bottom. Watch Nintendo announce the next Zelda for 2011 and bide its time with Vitality sensor Pacman and Psychic Tetris.