Nintendo Says DVD Functionality Still Coming

Hey, remember when the Gamecube was going to get a DVD attachment? Yeah, that sure turned out fantastic, didn’t it? No problems. And of course, we all know the Wii is the only system which didn’t launch with DVD playback functionality in the latest round of consoles — but Nintendo says the Wii will play DVDs — eventually.  Believe it or not, the problem is apparently the popularity of the Wii. Yes, that blasted console is selling so fast, Nintendo is currently concentrating all of their resources on simply producing the console as is. Who has time to make updates when they are so busy printing money, right?  This makes plenty of sense to me. I owned a DVD player long before I purchased the Wii, and I really don’t need my game system to play DVDs for me any more than I need my DVD player to play Wii games for me. It’d be a nice convenience, sure, but it isn’t anything close to a dealbreaker.

If you are wondering, Nintendo is now claiming the DVD functionality will be headed our way sometime in the beginning of 2008. A hardware change seems the most likely — Wii 2.0 or some such — but there continue to persist reports of a firmware upgrade. I guess we’ll find out … eventually.