The Free Gaming Thread v2 : Electric Boogaloo

[BumblebeeCody*]

Here's a question. Why in the world were the gamecube discs so tiny but the cases average size?

Supposedly one of the reason is an anti-pirate measure. Which, it does honestly make sense and remained true until piracy did eventually win. However a benefit of smaller discs meant faster loading times as the lens had less area of a disc to read a shorter amount of time.

Obviously that does come with bigger problems and again led to Nintendo on their third party loss. Discs were only 1.6(ish) in size which meant cross platform games had to have limited features and detail. If not that then they had to be 2 discs. Also, again, because...well Nintendo, they were Nintendo's own type of disc meaning developers/publishers had to go through Nintendo to print discs.

That being said, the GameCube was frikkin' incredible and I still consider Nintendo to be kings of gaming even through the GameCube up to the Wii. That library (of around 500+) is still extremely good. As strange as it sounds, I think the GameCube is a better system because of it. For every God of War or Final Fantasy on the PS2, you had 10 other pieces of crap shoved on that system. The GameCube has tight quality library of gems with a small level of filler that infested the library.

While we're speaking of things that Nintendo needs to do and odd decisions they make...
Bluetooth communication between 3DS and the Wii U. The tablet becomes the bottom screen of the game, the top screen is shown on your TV. DO IT NOW.

But, in any case, at least the gamecube cases were better than Sega CD and Sega Saturn cases.

Add it to the list of,
"Why doesn't Nintendo take on this good idea"?

Here's a question. Why in the world were the gamecube discs so tiny but the cases average size?

I have no idea why. It might be due to how the west like their games or how we consider DVD size format cases to important (speculation). Funny you bring that up since I own quite few Japanese games. They range from GameBoy up to GameCube and over there, the story is much different.
Japanese on the left. West (PAL) on the right.

Japanese GameCube games are significantly smaller.

Not only that but they differently designed. They have a card box outer cover that slides over the top of the plastic shell. There is no front or back cover as they are the card case. Inside the plastic case is where all the important crap lie like the manual or additional pamphlets. But they're held in place by a small plastic bar. The GameCube disc and memory card are on the opposite side and closely put together.