If the GameCube used regular DVDs.

[CastletonSnob]

What if the GameCube used regular DVDs like the PS2 and Xbox? How much better would it have sold?

 

[Worgen]

What if the GameCube used regular DVDs like the PS2 and Xbox? How much better would it have sold?

Kind of a pointless question since it didn't really seem to struggle much without the additional storage. There would have been a few more sales just f or dvd functionality but at that point it didn't seem like its more limited storage really hurt it much.

 

[BrawlMan]

There was a GameCube that could play DVDs, but it was in Japan only, and could play a few movies here and there. Plus, the thing looked tacky as fuck. I already had DVD players at home and PS2, so the lack of DVDs meant nothing to me. At least GC has DVD-like features for most games and their respective bonus features. I applauded Nintendo back then for just making a game console and not a multimedia device.

 

[CastletonSnob]

There was a GameCube that could play DVDs, but it was in Japan only, and could play a few movies here and there. Plus, the thing looked tacky as fuck. I already had DVD players at home and PS2, so the lack of DVDs meant nothing to me. At least GC has DVD-like features for most games and their respective bonus features. I applauded Nintendo back then for just making a game console and not a multimedia device.

There's something pure about Nintendo keeping their consoles focused on games and not all-in-one entertainment devices.

 

[CriticalGaming]

There's something pure about Nintendo keeping their consoles focused on games and not all-in-one entertainment devices.

Because Nintendo has never stopped viewing itself as a toy-company. It's core principals seem to be about making toys, those toys are just in the form of games and game systems now.

 

[bluegate]

Then Baten Kaitos might have had better sounding audio, or maybe not

 

[Drathnoxis]

It would have sold ten million more consoles.

 

[Drathnoxis]

What if the Playstation 2 had tiny little disks like the Gamecube? How much better would it have sold?

 

[Chimpzy]

There's something pure about Nintendo keeping their consoles focused on games and not all-in-one entertainment devices.

Because Nintendo has never stopped viewing itself as a toy-company. It's core principals seem to be about making toys, those toys are just in the form of games and game systems now.

That's not why they did it tho. Supposedly its for multiple reasons like reducing production costs and preventing piracy, but I bet you main one is probably that if they used dvds, they'd have to pay licensing costs to the dvd forum, the organisation of companies that developed, manages and licenses the dvd format.

Of which Sony is coincidentally a leading and founding member. You know, Sony, the former hardware partner that turned, stabbed them in the back and then stole their thunder with the PS1 (even tho they had already backstabbed Sony first by partnering with Phillips and producing the blight that is the CDi). And Nintendo is nothing if not petty.

 

[CastletonSnob]

That's not why they did it tho. Supposedly its for multiple reasons like reducing production costs and preventing piracy, but I bet you main one is probably that if they used dvds, they'd have to pay licensing costs to the dvd forum, the organisation of companies that developed, manages and licenses the dvd format.

Of which Sony is coincidentally a leading and founding member. You know, Sony, the former hardware partner that turned, stabbed them in the back and then stole their thunder with the PS1 (even tho they had already backstabbed Sony first by partnering with Phillips and producing the blight that is the CDi). And Nintendo is nothing if not petty.

That contract was HEAVILY favoring Sony.

 

[Chimpzy]

That contract was HEAVILY favoring Sony.

Of course it was. What company would not try to negotiate the best possible deal for themselves? Nintendo could've done their due diligence, renegotiated or just said "No deal" anytime. Instead they said nothing and secretly hooked up with a competitor, revealing that little dalliance at a major trade show, thereby publicly humiliating Sony. Both companies were assholes, but one was the bigger asshole.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Of course it was. What company would not try to negotiate the best possible deal for themselves? Nintendo could've done their due diligence, renegotiated or just said "No deal" anytime. Instead they said nothing and secretly hooked up with a competitor, revealing that little dalliance at a major trade show, thereby publicly humiliating Sony. Both companies were assholes, but one was the bigger asshole.

We should be thanking them ultimately, for without that defining incident the PlayStation platform might not have panned out to such great effect, if at all. So many highly regarded original IPs got their start on all their systems; especially the first couple.

 

[CastletonSnob]

We should be thanking them ultimately, for without that defining incident the PlayStation platform might not have panned out to such great effect, if at all. So many highly regarded original IPs got their start on all their systems; especially the first couple.

I don't think the partnership would have lasted anyway. The past almost 30 years have shown that Nintendo and Sony have VERY different philosophies with regards to business and game design.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Things would've been different for sure!