Why did Nintendo opt for a small disc with the Gamecube instead of the standard sized discs that literally everybody else was using? Even Sony did it with the PSVita.
>>12495363Because cube
Piracy.
>>12495363This bot comes from an alternate reality where the PSVita used discs.
>>12495363Fear of piracy and it had faster load time than a standard disc.
>>12495378sorry i meant PSP, i get them mixed up
>>12495387UMDs are actually a completely different format from the miniDVDs that the gamecube uses. They are smaller and hold more data than a miniDVD. >>12495376>>12495380Recordable miniDVDs existed. Nintendo didn't use them to stop piracy.
>>12495407It was piracy. Burning them was hardly supported by writers EVER. Just like M-Disc now needs firmware flashing to read correctly.
>>12495363Anytime Nintendo does something seemingly stupid, the rationale behind it is usually keeping costs down, piracy prevention, and/or keeping absolute control of their platform and everything associated with it. This one was pretty much all three.
Wow all you are wrong. Nintendo was notorious for making money on licensing the cart. They’re the reason gaming insane like a vcr or dvd player. They learned early licensing through controlling the media/medium was profit. They are asshole.
>>12495363>Why did OP op for posting while small and underage?
>>12495363>Vitawut
>>12495456Nintendo has never once given a fuck about piracy heavy regions. Nintendo is North America and Japan with Western Europe as a distant afterthought.
>>12495363>Even Sony did it with the PSVita.Do mean the psp umds? Vita used cartridges
>>12495363because Nintardo hates piracy even more than its own simps
>>12495363Gamecube was designed to work with regular DVDs but Nintendo outsourced manufacturing process to Israel and the infamous gimped GC disc is a result of disc clipping performed by jews to jew away some materials, like aluminum foil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England_(1066%E2%80%931290)#Coin_clipping_crisisThis problem was so rampant Nintendo had to save face and pretend this was intended. The best part of Resident Evil was clipped away by Soros.
>>12495363Mini disc players were going through a huge boom in Japan while the Gamecube was in development. The Gamecube went with mini discs because they were trying to capitalize on that by making a device that was trendy, which is also why the design of the console itself was trendy.
>>12495706Memory cards
minidisc wasn't nearly as bad of a blunder as the n64 cartridge was, really more of a moderate inconvenience for developers.
>>12495754Are you stupid? The pic you posted clearly shows that minidiscs are a completely different format than gamecube discs.
>>12495786I never said they were the same format. Why are you engaging in text based communication when you clearly lack basic reading comprehension skills?
>>12495363They got persuaded to by Matsushita/Panasonic to popularize their own disc format. I think it's the same size and capacity as the discs they used for their camcorders.This is from a 1999 article, it seems Panasonic expected gamecube disc to be a stepping stone for their own brand new multimedia disc format. Of course that didn't happen, GC was a flop. >To enrich DVD applications, Matsushita intends to market the DVD/game combo products that are developed as the second step of the alliance.>>12495376>>12495380>piracyWrong. It's true gamecube disc has a different copyright protection system compared to the standard dvd format, but that didn't necessiate the disc to be small.>>12495672>add nothing to the discussion>look at me im oldfag!!Go back to /v/.
>>12495672smartest turd worlder
>12495810>thinks this is a separate boardMeds.
>>12495387Retard
>>12496113Nigger faggot guggle on this warm thick load
>>12495363They know Nintendo fans like them small
>>12495363For some reason they were concerned about piracy. Not sure why when PS1 was pirated like crazy and still beat the crap out of Nintendo.
>>12496114You fucked up and now I get to laugh at you.
>>12496161laugh at me raping your mom
>>12496164You can’t recover from this blunder. It’s over.
>>12495363Piracy is more difficult with non-standard formats + smaller discs reduced load times + probably foolishly they believed that smaller discs will be cheaper to produce and completely missed the fact that non-standard formats need non-standard tools.
>>12496128Nintendo was filled with old greedy farts who didnt know how the world works. Reggie and Iwata singhehandedly fixed the whole company. Nintendo's been flopping again right after those two's departure.
>>12496247Nintendo worst moment was the Wii uIwata idea
>>12496262And Nintendo's best moment was Wii+NDS combo, where they saw the highest hardware sales in Nintendo's history. Wii-U and 3DS were failures, but they lead to Switch. Iwata's Nintendo made retarded mistakes just like anyone would, but always learned from it, and the most important thing is he never reiterated the same ideas he had for the previous products, knowing that trends always shift. Switch 2 is actually Nintendo's worst moment. There's nothing dumber than rehashing the Switch with much more expensive components in the midst of a huge RAM crisis and economic downturn. They've also shut down their gameboy-class handheld and mobile gaming business, so there's nothing to prop up their weakening revenues. And now their games are becoming more bloated and unispired, taking longer to make than ever due to the bloat, and becoming blander because big budget games always need to take the safest approach. Not to mention trying to become Disney 2.0 with the theme park and slop movies. Their stock has been freefalling after briefly peaking around Switch 2's launch.
>>12496302>And Nintendo's best moment was Wii+NDS comboMeh i think controlling 90% of the console market during the Famicom/NES era is far more impressive >and the most important thing is he never reiterated the same ideas he had for the previous products, knowing that trends always shift.Not sure i would say that, 3DS is pretty much DS2 ,they extremely close in terms of concept>Switch 2 is actually Nintendo's worst momentNot really, they (still) haven't lost money with the Switch 2 unlike the Wii U (the only time since the focus on video game that Nintendo have lost money during a fiscal year)
>>12496408I think the Switch 2 is now gaining traction thanks to exclusives like Pokopia, but they need to show off the successor to Mario Odyssey ASAP.
>>12495810>imagines a childs attention whore blog is a discussion>look at me im newfag>i need to go back to tiktok
>>12495363Because Sony owns like half the patents for CDs and DVDs, so using either would mean Nintendo paying Sony royaltiesInstead what Nintendo did was hire Panasonic to develop a format that's legally distinct from DVDs to avoid these fees. Eventually they did the same with full-size DVDs (Wii) and Blurays (WiiU).It had nothing to do with piracy. Neither a regular Gamecube or especially the Wii should for any reason be able to even mechanically read regular DVD discs at all, but Nintendo did nothing to prevent it, since they only did the bare minimum of work.
>>12496408>i think controlling 90% of the console market during the Famicom/NES era is far more impressiveMeh, Famicom practically had no competition, with the state of American gaming console industry at the time. Japan also practically had no console industry back in the early 80s. Epoch Cassette System was made to be dirt cheap and primitive. SG-1000 was rushed and used crappy off-the-shelf parts because it was merely a response to the news about Famicom. Commodore entirely gave up the Japanese market after the failure of MAX, despite C64 turning out to be so much better than MAX. If Commodore sold C64 in Japan, Nintendo would've had a harder time to compete. Famicom was a lighting in a bottle moment. >3DS is pretty much DS2 ,they extremely close in terms of conceptNot really. 3DS tried to capitalize on integrated motion sensor and augmented reality as its main features. In the end barely any games used them, but hey, they tried.>they (still) haven't lost money with the Switch 2Switch 2 had really strong early sales but got weakened soon after because only the most dedicated cultists bought it. They're saved by the cult that Iwata built with Switch 1. But yeah, making the same shit but more powerful isn't a sustainable way to maximize sales.
>>12496708>Instead what Nintendo did was hire Panasonic to develop a format that's legally distinct from DVDs to avoid these fees.That doesn't explain GC discs are so tiny.
>>12495380>it had faster load time than a standard discThat's because small discs inherently have lower seek time, plus most GC games were more heavily compressed to fit into such a small space.
>>12496708the PS1 made discs THE console-game default media and using anything but the standard-size discs for the next-gen consoles and beyond was just retarded.
