Soundwave on 24 March 2015
I don't really recall any major PS2/XBox game that wasn't ported to the GCN because of the disc issue. To be honest, so what if a game needs an extra disc? It's a 25 cent charge, it's not like printing an extra disc was some huge deal.
Not having DVD playback probably hurt Nintendo more than gen, because even though the GCN was $99.99, the PS2/XBox were $179.99, and people basically said "well this one I can use as a secondary DVD player for a little extra" on top of the library differences.
