"You could fit 13.5 of these inside an original Wii," writes James Smith (aka loopj ... the Short Stack's (aesthetic, non-functional) DVD slot. A custom heatsink (Smith uses aluminum, though ...

The program also turns the Wii into a DVD player, though this feature will not work on all models. Revised Wii models such as RVL-101 and RVL-201 (Wii Mini), released in 2011 and 2012 respectively ...

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If you were to ask someone at Nintendo about the Wii U, they’d likely say “Wii U? What Wii U? We make the Switch; that’ll be $350.” If it were up to the company, the world would entirely ...

When using a DVD-RAM disc with a compatible DVD drive, your Wii U can format and communicate with the disc – from there, it's a simple case of transferring a digital game over and playing it as ...

kiss those goodbye. Of course, as with the original Wii, you can't play DVDs or Blu-rays, either. The Wii Mini is strictly a one-trick pony, designed only to play disc-based Wii games.

And guys, it couldn't even play DVDs. You may like Nintendo Switch I ... mania makes me miss the early iPhone launch days But the Wii won this generation by doing something much, much bigger ...

However, the Wii's disc only had the capacity of a regular and double-sided DVD (4.7 and 8.5 GB), nearly matching the Xbox 360's maximum capacity but trailing the Playstation 3's 25 GB Blu-Ray discs.

I bought a Wii, which replaced my PS3 as the living room console. I knew the drive was a DVD drive, but apparently I didn't do enough research. Actually it never occurred to me that Nintendo would ...

We already know about the headline omissions of course: the slot-loading DVD drive has been removed in favour of a flip-top effort, while the legacy GameCube ports found on the original Wii ...

In the same way that the ability to play DVDs helped sell many on the PlayStation 2, media streaming could have been a big selling point for a smaller Wii. The price tag would have made it an ...

Although more expensive, they doubled as DVD players. They included online play ... Nintendo came up with the Wii. The console had worse graphics and a slower processor than its rivals, yet ...