So, Splatoon size is 1.8 GB...

[Materia-Blade]

The_Yoda said:

Materia-Blade said:

the medium is game developer friendly, not third party friendly. nintendo uses the extra space as much as any other. some of their games being really compressed is just trying to help people who buy digital but they have several games that wouldn't fit on a dual layered dvd.

Being 3rd party friendly and game developer friendly are not mutually exclusive (or are you saying third parties aren't also game developers?). I do get what you are saying about Nintendo also using the space though.  Do you happen to know what size the largest physical retail game on Wii U is?

I'm saying the medium was beneficial to developers as a whole (not just third parties) and was the obvious choice.