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Nintendo optical disks

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rayfieldclement

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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?
 
Well, it certainly wasn't because of piracy. The Wii and DS are jokes when it comes to security.
 
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.
 
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.
 
rayfieldclement said:
I don't think all optical Disc or disks are DVDs
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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.
 
rayfieldclement said:
I was just asking because Nintendo has not moved to CDs or DVDs unlike its competition.
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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.
 
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