Blu-ray Enabled Wii Coming?

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ARP (average retail price) on the Sigma Designs chip is $20 according to their last conference call. That, and the BD compatible drive is pretty much the only additional thing needed for a BD player that isn't already there in some form in the Wii. So, a combo Wii/BD player could be very reasonable.

It's well known that the Japanese have a space crunch and hence tend to love boxes that do many things. This would give the Wii that much more leverage into the Japanese home.

And come to think of it, the Sigma Design guy seemed to be sitting on something implying a huge score might be possible for Q4. I remember saying he was smoking the same weed as Fuji-san (Toshiba), but what if THIS is what was brewing?

Gary