Blu-Ray Nintendo Wii sighted in Tokyo

[Da Ill One]

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Ucs Tech News : Unconfirmed sources report the Nintendo Wii Blu-Ray has been sighted in the wild. According to the source, a high level Tokyo gamer, was hunting through alleyways and tiny stalls of the Akihabra electronics district and sighted the heavily modified Wii Blu-Ray game console.
With rumors of a Blu-Ray add-on for the 360 are showing up again it's logical that Nintendo would develope the technology. Tracing the origin of the modified Wii, Ucs Tech News has it from Nintendo insiders that a Blu-Ray installation is already specced out and just needs to go through the approval process. They foresee a release as soon as May 2008.


Nintendo's CEO Satoru Iwata stated in a February press release that "Nintendo is reviewing the Blu-ray technology and considering how it could enhance the Wii gaming experience." While the official word is wait and see rumors combined with the appearance of the console found in Akihabra has Wii watchers buzzing.

According to various Wii gaming blogs, the addition of a Blu-Ray drive and upgraded processor could spell trouble for Sony and the Playstation 3. The Current PowerPC-based "Broadway" processor clocked at 729 MHz is the slowest of the 3 major consoles but word has leaked that Nintendo is already in negotiation with AMD to purchase the next generation of the Athlon 64 X2 Dual core processor.

[Wii_Master]

I hope Nintendo will acept trade-ins and than all of us who want this would just trade in our old wiis and pay some extra money like about $100 and than they coud send us this!!

[thousandfootwii-mote]

Yah, that would rock! But it would probably be more than $100. Most likely $150.

[rubixcube2]

Doesn't Sony own the rights to the Blue-ray drive. Why would they give Nintendo their competition the ability to put blue-ray into a rival system

[Da Ill One]

Originally Posted by rubixcube2

Doesn't Sony own the rights to the Blue-ray drive. Why would they give Nintendo their competition the ability to put blue-ray into a rival system

To make money...Sony licenses the technology to Nintendo who has to pay a certain amount for the use of it...Sony get's paid forever, as long NIntendo is making blu ray games and or add-ons

[thousandfootwii-mote]

Wow, corporate payoff. Cool.

[Wii_Master]

Like I have said before it would be coool if Nintendo tradeed the orginials in for the new ones but then I said to myself that it would be a lot better if it was a add-on.

[pnlbuck]

Blue would be awesome

[gameslayer94]

That honestly sounds insane, but you never know........................

[rad.i.kal]

Sony and Nintendo are not friends haha... but they would do business together. I can see it happening, but almost doubt it... I wonder if instead of buying a new wii they might have it be an add on ya can plug into usb or something.