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by deergomoo 935 days ago
To a lesser extent they repeated it with the GameCube. Those little mini-DVDs are only 1.8GB.

The GameCube was easily capable of playing the likes of Grand Theft Auto—it was significantly more powerful than the PS2—but those games came on 9GB dual-layer DVDs, so it was just never gonna happen.

The reputation Nintendo had picked up for being the “kiddy console” probably didn’t help either.