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h2ohno on 15 February 2017
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bdbdbd said:
Werix357 said:

Yeah I remember when it was as the Ultra 64 the rumored specs would have made it a beast.

Yeah I would say Nintendo stuffed up with the Gamecube and Wii U GameCube because of the console design and using proprietry disc drive didn't help. The Wii U was to under powered to make proper use of the Gamepad.

Umm... How was Gamecube's disc drive more proprietary than that of Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox had? And how did it hurt Gamecube? What do you think was the problem with with Gamecube's console design and why do you think the bad design PS2 had did not hurt PS2, if GC design hurt GC?

I don't see power being a problem with Wii U.

The gamecube disks were designed to be read ina diffferent direction than the DVDs used for other systems.  That;s why they were 'more propietary.'  It was a way of preventing them from being burned and copied.  What really hurt them, though, was that the small disks could only hold 1.5 gigs of data, while the PS2 and Xbox disks could hold 3x that amount.  It meant that again, developers were discouraged from working harder to fit larger games like GTA onto the small disks.   Many third party games that skipped the gamecube would have come to the system if it had used 4.5 gig disks instead.