Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @03:54AM from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

motang writes "Netflix and Nintendo is set to announce Netflix streaming service for the Wii soon. Subscribers who have the unlimited streaming service can watch non-HD version of the movies on their Wii with a special Netflix disc inserted." The thing I can't understand is why the PS3 and Wii have to require a disc. Both are capable of downloading applications and executing them. Why should I be required to dedicate my disc slot to stream a movie? Of course, my netflix queue is half-filled with Ken Burns documentaries, so if I lost the disc, I think that would just make the wife happier.

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Re:Unless I'm mistaken... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-13 07:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait

LOL, if my new, you mean the WiiMote doing what the PS2 was doing 10 years ago with the PSEYE and it's games, then you are clearly deluded. Sure the general unwashed might fall for Nintendos "new" Wii (which itself is a tarted up GameCube), but I would have hoped someone reading ./ would be smarter than that...