Nintendo confirms final version of its next-gen console will only play "12-centimeter optical discs for the Wii console," and it has abandoned original plans for DVD peripheral.

Click to viewUpdate: You can now hack your Wii even more easily, and you don't need to buy anything to do it. Here's how. Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken ...

Click on the circular Wii icon in the lower left corner. DO NOT click on the SD card icon if you've got a newer or updated Wii with the 4.0 menu. You won't hurt your Wii, but the exploit won't work.

Since we're already in the spirit of covering movie-playback downgrades on other upcoming hardware platforms, let's keep the ball rolling. Matt Casamassina, IGN's long-suffering embedded Nintendo ...

The folks at Hackmii have released an installer which will will let you play DVDs on your Wii, something which Nintendo’s console should really do already. You won’t need to have a mod chip ...

It looks like DVD playback is finally available for Wii, but it doesn’t come from Nintendo and it will require you to have a modded console —like those Nintendo doesn’t want you to have.

When Microsoft and Sony were engaged in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format wars at the beginning of the current-console generation, Nintendo opted to abstain from video playback entirely with the Wii ...

In addition to Wii and GameCube homebrew and backups, apparently the WiiXT also promises region-free DVD playback (wait, huh?), Virtual Console support, stealth operation, recovery mode, and uses ...

While DVD and Blu-ray playback is nice, I don't think that it's going to be a deal-breaker not having it and Nintendo can save a few dollars per console by not adding it.

Earlier this week, we reported that Sonic Solutions had signed a 'worldwide agreement" with Nintendo to release a DVD playback enabled version of the Wii console sometime in 2007. Official word ...

Nintendo plans an enhanced, DVD-ready Wii for Japan. Edge magazine, the leading UK gaming periodical, revealed in their September issue that Nintendo would be releasing an enhanced version of the ...