6th October 2019

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Can you play Wii U games on the switch?

Nintendo Switch uses cartridges called GameCards for its games. That initially left room to speculate on whether you can play your old DS and 3DS games on the new console, since those handhelds also use cartridges. There is the Virtual Console for some backward compatibility, however.

Hereof, why can't the Wii U play DVDs?

The reason for that is that we feel that enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and Blu-ray, such that it didn't warrant the cost involved to build that functionality into the Wii U console because of the patents related to those technologies.

Can you put a DVD on the Wii?

Now you can play all your favorite movies on your Wii! Once you have the Homebrew Channel up and running, you can now install a slew of great third party apps such as emulators, homebrew games, media players even Linux! For now, here's how to get DVD playback on your Wii with MPlayer.

Can you play a DVD in an Xbox one?

Supported regions and disc formats. Each Xbox One console is manufactured for a specific Blu-ray and DVD region, following international standards. The Xbox One console can play Blu-ray discs and DVDs that are sold in the same region as the console.
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