Comments on: Nintendo Gets Into Media Convergence With…Books?

By: Nintendo DSi XL Will Be an E-Reader, Too

Nintendo DSi XL Will Be an E-Reader, Too — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:29:26 +0000

[...] familiar? That’s because Nintendo already released the books-on-a-cartridge to the United Kingdom in December 2008. I’m not sure why it took so [...]

By: Jared Newman

Jared Newman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:22:35 +0000

Nintendo said to GameDaily back in 2006 that existing Wii owners would need “more than a firmware upgrade” to get DVD functionality (If/when that happens. The same thing was supposed to happen for the Gamecube). Whether the homebrew “mplayer” changes things, I don’t know. Something tells the solution won’t be as simple as a quick patch or software download.

It is true that homebrew solutions are available for a variety of things not promoted by the Big N, but this article is more about Nintendo’s approach for the common denominator of users. A homebrew book reader is already available on the DS too, you know. :)

By: David

David — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:26:02 +0000

You would not need a new console generation to support DVD playback on the Wii. Homebrew software already allows the Wii to play DVD’s. All Nintendo needs to do is release an update and the Wii will double as a DVD player.