17th May 2005, 6:43 PM
Yeah, there only thing it would need is the programming code.
The only reason it wouldn't do it out of the box is just like why MS did that thing, as OB1 said. That reason, for those who forgot, is that MS didn't want to pay the DVD consortium for every single XBox sold. So, they just shifted the cost to the cost of the DVD remote and "unlocker" device, so they could easily say "the system doesn't play DVDs without this", which was technically true. Nintendo is likely doing the same thing. They just cut the costs to the DVD Empire away from the revolution and TO the DVD playback kit (which I won't be getting because I already have like 3 DVD players without even going to the store to get one, and one is in my computer, so it has as many features as whatever playback program I use has), so ONLY those who want to play DVDs need to pay the cost.
Of course, Sony is willing to bite the bullet and take the price on themselves because, well, they know their targets :D.
The only reason it wouldn't do it out of the box is just like why MS did that thing, as OB1 said. That reason, for those who forgot, is that MS didn't want to pay the DVD consortium for every single XBox sold. So, they just shifted the cost to the cost of the DVD remote and "unlocker" device, so they could easily say "the system doesn't play DVDs without this", which was technically true. Nintendo is likely doing the same thing. They just cut the costs to the DVD Empire away from the revolution and TO the DVD playback kit (which I won't be getting because I already have like 3 DVD players without even going to the store to get one, and one is in my computer, so it has as many features as whatever playback program I use has), so ONLY those who want to play DVDs need to pay the cost.
Of course, Sony is willing to bite the bullet and take the price on themselves because, well, they know their targets :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)