Nintendo DS to Play Movies?

swisener writes "An article at CNN speculates that the Nintendo DS could have multimedia playback, making it more of a competitor to Sony's PSP. If true, it will be interesting to see whether or not the big N can be successful with something other than a pure gaming machine."

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Here we go...

[Mike Hawk]

Waiting for the "video game consoles should only play video games" comment in 3...2...

Wait, what? Oh, this is Nintendo? So its totally different than PSP or NGage now? Riiiiiiiiight.

Re:Comparison to Gamecube

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

"I already have a DVD player, and so do many people."

But they're not talking about the present. The quote was in regards to the initial release of the Gamecube. Over the course of the Gamecube's lifetime, the price of DVD players has dropped significantly. Not having DVD playback available at the time of release probably did hurt sales of the Gamecube. Consider that DVD player market penetration was not as high as it currently is and also consider that both the PS2 and XBox could play DVDs and you can see that it will influence sales. I don't know if I agree with the statement that it had a tremendous effect.

You might also note that to many people a $200 device competing with a device at $150 where one plays DVDs and one does not, if these people don't own DVD players and, at the time, the average cost of a DVD player was probably around $100, for a low grade model, is significant.