Nintendo optical disks

[rayfieldclement]

Why would Nintendo choose this format for the Wii and the Gamecube instead on DVDs? Is it the cost? Is it because the want to make their machines GAMING ONLY? Did they ever give a reason for it?

 

[rayfieldclement]

Sorry I put this on the WRONG FORUM!

It should go under hardware and Tech

 

[viivo]

Well, it certainly wasn't because of piracy. The Wii and DS are jokes when it comes to security.

 

[alent1234]

they didn't want to pay the pennies for the dvd licenses

 

[Schfifty Five]

Why would Nintendo choose this format for the Wii and the Gamecube instead on DVDs? Is it the cost? Is it because the want to make their machines GAMING ONLY? Did they ever give a reason for it?

It's optical disc, not disk.

DVD = optical disc.

 

[rayfieldclement]

It's optical disc, not disk.

DVD = optical disc.

I don't think all optical Disc or disks are DVDs

 

[Soundmanred]

I don't think all optical Disc or disks are DVDs

I think all DVD are opticle disques.

(USA)

 

[Anarchist420]

I believe they chose non-DVDs for the Gamecube so that load times would be kept down. That is, there wasn't as much data to load on Gamecube Optical Discs.

 

[Fox5]

The Gamecube optical disc was an anti piracy measure. It wasn't terribly effective, but remember how long ago this was....Dreamcast games could be burned directly to a CD and played meaning piracy was super easy. Gamecube at least required a mod chip.

The Wii uses standard DVDs, at least physically. They might still arrange the data in the same way gamecube discs did, but the wii doesn't even need a mod chip to play back burned games on DVDs, so it is capable of reading dvds.

 

[Anteaus]

I don't think all optical Disc or disks are DVDs

He was just correcting you on terminolagy. It's disc not disk. Disk refers to floppy technology (diskette). Disc refers to circular nature of optical technology (discus). I'm not picking on you...just clarifying his point.

 

[fr]

GameCube and Wii both use DVDs. What is the point of this thread?

 

[rayfieldclement]

GameCube and Wii both use DVDs. What is the point of this thread?

I was just asking because Nintendo has not moved to CDs or DVDs unlike its competition.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I was just asking because Nintendo has not moved to CDs or DVDs unlike its competition.

Except they have, the Wii uses optical discs that are essentially DVDs, Nintendo just opted not to include functionality that allows the Wii to play back DVD movies because they didn't want to pay for it (ie licensing to the DVD Forum)

Again, while the discs are technically proprietary, they aren't radically different, they are pretty much identical to DVDs.

 

[sswingle]

They ARE DVDs. The console just doesn't have the MPEG decoder software for DVD Video discs.