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So recently I made another thread about HD Collections on the Wii U and I said they would need multiple discs, well someone set me straight and told me the Wii U discs actually hold 25GB of memery per layer, I looked it up and sure enough he was right.  I keep up to date on video game news regularly, but tbh I had no idea the Wii U discs held so much memory, since they weren't blu ray I just assumed they were regular dvds like the orginal Wii had.  Knowing this does this change your stance on the Wii U at all, to me it makes me obviously more inclined to buy a Wii U, because this gives a higher chance of HD Collections of classic Nintendo games and it gives a higher chance of third party support if the Wii U starts selling well.  What do you guys think?

Edit:  Looks like everyone knew except me lol.



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Already knew this, but it's a good sign; should mean that Wii U won't struggle with disc size limitations.



Well, it basically is a Blu-Ray without license afterall



is a Blu-Ray disc so it up to 50GB...



EricFabian said:
is a Blu-Ray disc so it up to 50GB...


I did say 25GB per layer.  For dual layered your right, ofc Nintendo doesn't have the best track record with dual-layered discs XD.



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KingdomHeartsFan said:
EricFabian said:
is a Blu-Ray disc so it up to 50GB...


I did say 25GB per layer.  For dual layered your right, ofc Nintendo doesn't have the best track record with dual-layered discs XD.


Metroid Prime Trilogy



EricFabian said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:
EricFabian said:
is a Blu-Ray disc so it up to 50GB...


I did say 25GB per layer.  For dual layered your right, ofc Nintendo doesn't have the best track record with dual-layered discs XD.


Metroid Prime Trilogy


What I meant was the big number of Wiis that couldn't run dual-layered discs, not saying they've never used them before.



KingdomHeartsFan said:
What I meant was the big number of Wiis that couldn't run dual-layered discs, not saying they've never used them before.

wait, some Wii can not run dual discs? LOL 

 

anyway, I wish Wii U became a blu-ray player someday



Smash Bros. Brawl had some loading issues because it was the first Wii game to use a dual layered DVD (8.5GB). Metroid Prime Trilogy was the second and last dual-layered game on Wii. 



geddie221 said:

Smash Bros. Brawl had some loading issues because it was the first Wii game to use a dual layered DVD (8.5GB). Metroid Prime Trilogy was the second and last dual-layered game on Wii. 

Metroid Other M, Xenoblade, and The Last Story were all dual layered and came out after Prime Trilogy.