Nintendo of America’s vice president of marketing and corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan, confirmed today that Wii will not play DVD movies, as Nintendo once said it would. Nintendo says the decision ...

One of the abundant questions left after Nintendo's oddly empty Wii U announcement was the format. Pictures of the console released after the show clearly show an optical disc drive, and we now know ...

Wii systems have taken another step forward in catching up to the multimedia capabilities of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Homebrew programmers have released a set of installation files that will ...

Nintendo has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that there are plans to launch a new version of the Wii featuring DVD playback functionality in Japan. The Wii's original spec sheet said the console would ...

Proving the maxim Japan has it better when it comes to gadgets and games, Nintendo had promised the motherland a version of the Wii with DVD playback by the end of this year. The model has yet to ...

Now, although I’m a firm Wii fangirl, I’m not immune to admitting there were a few discrepancies between the features first mentioned when the Wii was announced, and what consumers were actually left ...