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[QUOTE]There's something immediately striking about [URL="http://www.engadget.com/tag/wiiu"]Nintendo's Wii U[/URL] proprietary disc format that's hard to notice in photos -- it's got rounded edges, both outside and in. It [I]feels[/I] different than any other disc we've handled before; Tim swears he's seen a round-edged disc in the wild, but we've never seen such a thing ourselves. It's as if the folks at Nintendo took sandpaper to every edge of every disc, making them all the more friendly to the touch. It's a little detail, but it's a nice one.
As we learned when the console was initially announced, the Wii U's "proprietary high-density optical discs" hold [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/07/the-wiiu-nintendos-next-console/"]up to 25GB of data[/URL] -- equivalent with that of Sony's single-layer Blu-ray format on the PlayStation 3, and much larger than the Xbox 360's dual-layer DVD format. Of course, all logic and statistics aside, having now handled a round-edged disc, we [I]never wanna go back[/I].[/QUOTE]
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[B]imminent apple lawsuit[/B]
[b]Wow...[/b]
What will they think of next?
I thought you were making a really stupid joke about how they're circle :v:
That's cool, never really looked at the edges of discs though
I now wish to touch one of these discs.
I swear I've seen a music CD or two with rounded edges like this before.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;38427979]I now wish to touch one of these discs.[/QUOTE]
I want to rub them on myself
[I]Mmmmmmmmoo[/I]OOO FUCK IT SNAPPED OH GOD BLOOD EVERYWHERE
I can see a little difference in the picture but that's a pretty cool thing nonetheless
Sounds like an anti-piracy feature to make it more difficult to use the default drive to read disks. Even if it isn't, it sounds pretty cool
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;38427991]I swear I've seen a music CD or two with rounded edges like this before.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I could've sworn my friend's copy of Halo had some really ergonomically round edges.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;38427979]I now wish to touch one of these discs.[/QUOTE]
In all due time, my friend, in all due time.
I thought this was a play on how Nintendo make a lot of their hardware pieces until I realized they're apparently thicker and have rounded edges (I thought that was implying it was a circle :v:)
This seems silly.
Yet another stupid feature that drives up the costs of production.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38428084]Yet another stupid feature that drives up the costs of production.[/QUOTE]
I'm not an expert, but I don't think rounding the edges of a disk costs that much time or money. Seems like a quick automated thing.
INNOVATION THY NAME IS NINTENDO
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38428084]Yet another stupid feature that drives up the costs of production.[/QUOTE]
It's only costing the producers more though, it's purely anti-piracy
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;38428052]I thought this was a play on how Nintendo make a lot of their hardware pieces until I realized they're apparently thicker and have rounded edges (I thought that was implying it was a circle :v:)
This seems silly.[/QUOTE]
It's either for safety reasons or for anti-piracy measures
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38428084]Yet another stupid feature that drives up the costs of production.[/QUOTE]
why do you even give a shit about the minuscule production costs of this
are you an investor
It would have been cheaper to switch back to cartridges, less prone to damage and lighter with all the advancements in solid state tech.
[QUOTE=EliteGuy;38428113]It's only costing the producers more though, it's purely anti-piracy[/QUOTE]
I doubt it's going to even delay piracy by any significant margin.
[QUOTE=legolover122;38428108]I'm not an expert, but I don't think rounding the edges of a disk costs that much time or money. Seems like a quick automated thing.[/QUOTE]
No matter how you splice it, changes away from a conventional standard (cd/dvd/bluray in this case) will drive up production costs. It may not be relatively significant, but it's still pointless unless these discs have some special benefit over conventional dvds, or blurays.
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[QUOTE=laserguided;38428186]It would have been cheaper to switch back to cartridges, less prone to damage and lighter with all the advancements in solid state tech.[/QUOTE]
Not true. A dvd costs literally cents to manufacture.
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No matter how you splice it, changes away from a conventional standard (cd/dvd/bluray in this case) will drive up production costs. It may not be relatively significant, but it's still pointless unless these discs have some special benefit over conventional dvds, or blurays.
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If it's minute change, then I don't see what the problem is. Less than a fraction more for easier/comfortable to handle disks.
Though they meant rounded as in a circular disk.
I was kinda confused
[QUOTE=legolover122;38428264]If it's minute change, then I don't see what the problem is. Less than a fraction more for easier/comfortable to handle disks.[/QUOTE]
It may not be less than a fraction more. In fact it likely requires significant overhauling of equipment. It's not just changing some settings and making new discs. The machines built to produce any sort of component like this are specialized to the point of insanity.
I have also never met someone who complained about the ergonomics of a CD. Ever.
I really don't see what the point is unless its either anti-piracy or bragging rights. It just seems so needless and stupid.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38428213]
No matter how you splice it, changes away from a conventional standard (cd/dvd/bluray in this case) will drive up production costs. It may not be relatively significant, but it's still pointless unless these discs have some special benefit over conventional dvds, or blurays.
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Who cares. If Nintendo wants to spend an extra 1 cent on disks then go for it. They're not going to charge $60.01 for games. So what the hell does it matter?
Shit like this drives up the costs of parts by a few cents assuming the infrastructure to produce it already exists (in this case they can probably get by with modifications to existing infrastructure). Realistically, it usually ends up costing much, much more. And because there's usually a monopoly involved it drives costs up further.
At best it makes margins thinner. At worst you could be looking at another price jump on titles.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38428213]
No matter how you splice it, changes away from a conventional standard (cd/dvd/bluray in this case) will drive up production costs. It may not be relatively significant, but it's still pointless unless these discs have some special benefit over conventional dvds, or blurays.[/QUOTE]
Bluray is owned by Sony, so Nintendo can't use it. DVD doesn't have enough space on it to hold game data. That's why even Xbox went to their own "HD-DVD" format.
I wonder what team twiizers are going to get out of this console.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38428339]They are going to have to include a safety notice advising you not to pleasure yourself with their disks now...[/QUOTE]
then some soccer mom will just sue when their kid reads that
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