Interesting Quote About the GameCube's Design

[LemonSlice]

Shadow1980 said:

LemonSlice said:

Interesting to note, GTA3 and Vice City would have fitted no problem on a single Gamecube disc each.

I've seen multiple conflicting sources on GTA3, some of which suggest that it was bigger than 1.5GB, but Vice City was most definitely larger than 1.5GB. Every sixth-gen GTA game eventually came to Xbox, but never to GameCube despite the GC having a similar global install base. The only practical reason I could see for that is format.

There's about 400-500MB game data in each game, the rest is music and speech, all of which could be downsampled if necessary. I think GTA3 at least is smaller than the Gamecube disc as it is. If you find a larger size, it's due to the empty data used to push the actual data to the edge of the disc (so it could be read faster).