txrattlesnake on 28 October 2009
| Soriku said: Nintendo went with cartridges when CDs became more prominent for the N64. Then Nintendo went with smaller CDs over DVDs (don't remember what the small CDs were called) for GC. Nintendo went with optical discs over DVD for the Wii. There's no doubt in my mind they'll use another CD format. It can still be like blu ray, storing 50 GB and such, but it won't be blu ray. Disney likes supporting blu ray for movies. Epic Mickey isn't a movie, and KH3 won't be a movie. |
But unless Nintendo had the blu-ray movie feature, then they would never fully be able to stamp out PS3 because when PS3 is cheap and has the added benefit of dvds being off the market and all the best movies available only blu-ray, that keeps them as a competitor with something Wii doesn't offer.
Also, when Nintendo went with cartridges on N64, cds weren't the dominant media type -- they had only been used on obscure consoles and hadn't lived up to their true potential. Pretty much the same thing with dvd versus the gc disc. DVD was still in its infancy when they did that. This gen when dvd was the dominant media, they went with dvd.
