Why do they hate the optical media?
Why do they hate the optical media?
Angel Cooper
Jeremiah Williams
Switching to CD in the 90's would have meant a loss in profit per unit sold. Not switching, ironically, tanked sales so hard it wound up being much worse.
The Gamecube's mini DVDs were meant as an anti-piracy measure.
They've now switched back to cartridges after the Wiis because flash memory has caught up to optical, and they can go back to turbo-jewing developers with the price of their proprietary media.
Wyatt Cooper
Cartridges are way better, fuck discniggers.
Connor Wood
They are noisy as shit.
Landon Hall
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Aiden Richardson
I had scratched DVD and broken over the years. Not a single broken cartdrige
Alexander Sullivan
It's not Nintendium compatible. Every Wii and Gamecube that broke on me was always because of the disc reader fucking up.
Liam King
Tendies are literal children who can't handle complex electronics.
Colton Hill
They ran out of nintendium when the switch released anyways
Brandon Foster
Because CD tech was dogshit in the 90's and loading screens were looked down on by Nintendo and a lot of people at the time. The drives were also expensive and Nintendo had no experience with them unlike Sony.
As for why the Gamecube didnt support dvd, I think its that they didnt want to aim for a costly console and wanted to be able to again, put other specs first. Nintendo has always believed what comes first is that developers have unique opportunities on their platform. Every console is like that short of the Gamecube.
Famicom was a powerhouse at the time with a then-confusing architecture but one that caught on luckily. SFC was more of the same but then they added mouse support, and satellaview. N64 had 4 player support without multitap, very powerful, would have had expansion disk and online and all sorts of support if 64DD had materialized. Wii and on had unique input methods for devs to innovate with.
Their goal is to give players unique experiences. That's it. It's paid off for them 9 times out of 10 and it's why they've always managed to turn a profit besides the Wii U when they fucked their marketing so hard that nobody knew it was even a new console.