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thranx on 02 January 2013
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ethomaz said:

thranx said:

do you have a source for that? I have been trying to find one but i cant. I dont see where it says that it is abluray drive. The discs have the same capacity, but i think the wiiu has faster read speeds. so i am not sure if it is blu ray.

I will search for it... I just read a hacker saying that... the latest Blu-ray drives is even faster for read than the Wii U one... the hacker comunitty thinks they can unlock the drive to read blu-ray movies (of course the Wii U have to be full racked first).

From what I undertand the Wii U discs is similar to PS3 discs... the difference is the file structure used by Nintendo to prevines piracy but the PS3 DVD file structure was different form the DVD standard and even so the burn programs can write in the PS2 format for games (for movies the PS2 can read the standard DVDs).

We need to wait but there is no other tech for discs over 20GB today... not a popular one... anything different from Blu-ray will be expensive and hard to manufacturate (eg. PS3 with Blu-ray).

nintendo usually uses propitery discs and disc drives as far as i know. the game cube, and the wii each used non standard drives and discs. I dont see why they start using a bluray now. I serached and i could not find anyhting conclusive, just comparisons. even the anandtech teardown didn't speicfy, it just said that it used a disc the same size as blu ray, but that the drive had increased read speeds.