Many people want to know if the Nintendo Wii can play DVDs or not. The truth is although the Nintendo Wii does come with a fully functional DVD player, Nintendo didn't want to focus on this aspect of the console. They wanted their console to be used purely for gaming and didn't care about DVD playback. They are probably hitting themselves in the foot being that Xbox and Playstation both have this functionality. Many people won't buy a Wii because the system doesn't have DVD playback options. Sales are still out of this world for the console without DVD playback.
As mentioned before each unit does has a fully functional DVD player inside the system. You can make Wii may DVDs but you will have to do a few things before this is possible. Nintendo left it up to home programmers to figure out how the DVD player could be used. First you must install a program on your Wii called home brew installer. Home brewers is the term given to home programmers that make games, programs and applications that can be played on many gaming consoles. Yes you can make your own games if you know anything about computer programming. You will be able to play 1000's of games you didn't even know existed and since they are made by home programmers they are cheap but most of the time you can get them for free.
This home brew platform isn't all fun and games. You can use it to launch programs also. Programs like media players, datebooks, or video players and other software. In order to play DVDs on Wii you will have to get the DVD player program call DVDx. Once you have this installed you can begin playing DVDs on the Wii.
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