{"id":3986,"date":"2011-06-15T13:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2011-07-02T00:40:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T04:40:05","slug":"nintendo-announces-no-dvd-or-blu-ray-for-wii-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/nintendo-announces-no-dvd-or-blu-ray-for-wii-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Announces No DVD Or Blu-ray For Wii U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/game_nintendo_wiiu_dvd_bluray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3987\" title=\"game_nintendo_wiiu_dvd_bluray\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/game_nintendo_wiiu_dvd_bluray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/game_nintendo_wiiu_dvd_bluray.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/game_nintendo_wiiu_dvd_bluray-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo President Satoru Iwata made the announcement that there will be no DVD or Blu-ray playback support  for the Wii U.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the company has never supported  either options with previous consoles, this may not be a total shock to  hear, Iwata gave several reasons as to why the decision was made.  Most Nintendo gamers already have a DVD and\/or Blu-Ray device  in their homes. Nintendo also opted out of the licensing fees they  would have to pay if they did decide to support DVD\/Blu-ray playback.<\/p>\n<p>Were you hoping for a DVD\/Blu-ray compatibility with Wii U? Let us know what you think of Nintendo\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nintendo President Satoru Iwata made the announcement that there will be no DVD or Blu-ray playback support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}