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sc94597 on 01 July 2015
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Vor said:
sc94597 said:
Vor said:

FYI some Wii games are double layered 

As were practically every Xbox 360 game. This doesn't affect his point. The XB360 had the best third party support last generation, and it also had HUGE limitations in disc capacity. Most RPG's required something like four-discs to contain all of their content, and many multiplats suffered from compression on the 360 vs. PS3. 

He was opposing the argument that the Gamecube's mini-disc was the main reason why third party games were less frequent on Gamecube, and that is blatantly false. 

@OP

Nintendo's problems with third parties had to do with liscensing and control over content. It's been their problem since the SNES era. As soon as viable competition came,  they abandoned Nintendo because it gave them more freedoms in the development of their games. Now third parties expect to be pandered to and given every resource possible to subsidize the cost of development. Nintendo being a fiscally conservative company doesn't play those games unless they can get a benefit from it without a huge risk. 

Look at the post I'm quoted. Compare double layered games to single layered games isn't fair IMO.

He wasn't. He was comparing double-layered (Wii) games to double-layered (360) games. 6.8 GB is not single-layered (4.7 GB is.)  His use of "single disc" was not the same thing as "single layered."