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sc94597 on 23 March 2015
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Ka-pi96 said:
sc94597 said:

Saying the GCN's mini-discs greatly affected its third-party support is silly. The Xbox 360's DVD's didn't influence its third party support compared to the PS3's Blu-Ray discs. This is obviously an example of selection bias. 

Pretty sure 3rd parties were threatening to drop PS3 support due to it's difficulty to develop for when it was doing poorly. Of course it then picked up so nothing came of it, but still it could have happened.

Which isn't relevant to what I was saying. People said third parties didn't support the GC because its mini discs only held up to 1.5 GB versus the 8.5 GB of a dual-layered DVD. Yet the Xbox 360 only supported 8.5 GB dual-layered DVD's and the PS3 supported 33.4 GB on its Blu-Ray discs. Only supporting DVD's didn't affect the Xbox 360's third party support, nor did it help the PS3. In fact, the 360 got Final Fantasy XIII games using multiple discs. It is silly to cite that as a reason for any third-party woes the GameCube might've had (in itself.)