Wii U Can’t Play DVDs, Far-Less Blu-Ray

Iwata’s confirmed that Nintendo’s latest console, Wii U, can’t run DVDs, and so if the thing can’t run DVDs, you shouldn’t even think of Blu-Ray, as he also confirmed that the latter’s a no-no.

“Wii U does not have DVD or Blu-ray playback capabilities,” he said in an investor Q&A which has been translated to English.

“The reason for that is that we feel that enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and Blu-ray, such that it didn’t warrant the cost involved to build that functionality into the Wii U console because of the patents related to those technologies.”

Wii U released next year.