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Xenoblade X actually offered content download to speed up loading. Sometimes fast travel could take a really long time, and pop in is bad without it. But the Wii U also used some sort of custom DVD, not Blurays
Only thing I could find on that is someone saying that on a Reddit thread without a source: https://old.reddit.com/r/wiiu/comments/2gehpu/what_kind_of_discs_does_the_wii_u_use/ckieslc/

Wikipedia says they're based on Blu-ray, they look like Blu-rays, and they hold 25gb. 🤷‍♂️ Nintendo's discs are all in-house variants of other kinds of discs so they don't have to pay licensing fees to the DVD forum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_optical_discs
 
Or they could just make their games more efficient. The Wii U didn’t have any problem with long load times.
The WiiU was still a PS3/360 class console, it wouldn't have as much crap to load in(less RAM) and since it wasn't as powerful as the PS4/XBone the game resourses would be smaller as well.
 
If i remember correctly, even Nintendo was like "yea, shit sucks on the 1st 3DS, get the 'NEW' one if you want to play it better"
Ugh, and I remembered that too. When I played Smash on the 3Ds, I didn't touch it forever and only watched gameplay videos on YouTube.
 
Ugh, and I remembered that too. When I played Smash on the 3Ds, I didn't touch it forever and only watched gameplay videos on YouTube.
Eh, it played fine on my O3DS besides the home menu issue. And Smash Run is one reason to go back to it unlike the Wii U version, which was made all but obsolete by Ultimate; and I say that as someone who actually likes Smash Tour.
 
Wikipedia says they're based on Blu-ray, they look like Blu-rays, and they hold 25gb. 🤷‍♂️ Nintendo's discs are all in-house variants of other kinds of discs so they don't have to pay licensing fees to the DVD forum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_optical_discs
Hate to get semantic, but Wikipedia says its unclear if its based on Bluray, just that Panasonic was a founding member in the Bluray association. They are custom enough that its impossible to read them on anything but a Wii U though.
 
Hate to get semantic, but Wikipedia says its unclear if its based on Bluray, just that Panasonic was a founding member in the Bluray association. They are custom enough that its impossible to read them on anything but a Wii U though.
And also Sony was one of the creators of the actual discs along with the Blu-Ray Association themselves when they were released in 2006.
 
Hate to get semantic, but Wikipedia says its unclear if its based on Bluray, just that Panasonic was a founding member in the Bluray association. They are custom enough that its impossible to read them on anything but a Wii U though.
Bluray would imply that they are using the same standardized format/data structure as a bluray. They're obviously not, but the discs are using the same density/manufacturing process as a single layer bluray and probably the same laser/lens. Same, same, but different. Wii and GC did the same thing with DVD.
 
  • Games no longer came with manuals
  • Mandatory full disc installs across the board
  • Enormous updates
  • Required updates with no indication on the packaging
  • Controllers with batteries you needed to charge after every single session
In fairness, those hindrances weren't exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 4. I miss game manuals, not these cheap pamphlets.
 
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Japanese gaming journalists apparently seem so used to see Playstation games being multi-platform with PC that they end up making unfortunate typo mistakes. Like in that Famitsu article of Earth Defense Force 6 (for the announcement of the mission pack DLC) claiming to be on PC/Steam too.

I thought it was funny at first, but too bad a PC port for the global market won't happen anytime soon.
 
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