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"8mm discs - what are nintendo doing?"

I was always taught you learn from your mistakes. You would think a major company and one of the only companies in japan to turn over a profit last year would have been taught that too. Guess not. After destroying their thrid party support with over-priced development costs given to developers caused by expensive cartridges for the N64 the big N have done it again. For those of you who don't know how the games developers aquire the cd's to put their carefully crafted games onto here is the process. basically each format (psx, psx2, dc, gc etc etc) have a certain cd/dvd to which developers publish games onto. When any games designer wish to create a game they must first aquire a license (bar Pc) from the company (sony, sega etc) and then they can purchase the cd's needed and create/publish the game. the thing is with the N64 using cartridges the costs for developers to buy a cartridge was higher than for buying a cd from sony hence the severe lack of support. Well now it appears Nintendo (this is confirmed) wish to use 8mm discs rather than Cd's. This means for each disc a publisher requires from Nintendo it will cost £10 compared to £7-8 for Sony and Sega and £6 for X-box. Not much you may think! Well when a publisher needs say 2,000,000 discs then that amounts to costs of £4,000,000 higher than developing the same game for Sony. A large amount. It eally appears Nintedo remain lost in arrogance. They still beleive that if the system is easy to develop for and is a slighty better system then devlopers and publishers will be falling over each other to sign for them. wrong boys. fact is say we took Squares FF8. 7 million sales worldwide. that would equal £14million extra costs for say a gamecube. What do you think would be more important? Wasting £14m or using slighty more difficult tools to create the game for Sony?? Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo...when will you learn?

something we agree with Armatige i would love it if Nintendo stuck with carts, but hey at least the GBA still uses them i half expected nintendo to make them midi discs.

Everybody knows encoding is a waste of time though huh? ... Even Nintendo know its just a five minute reprise form piracy? :)

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Nope... the encoding is very hard to crack, which although gives hackers more incentive to do so, should keep them at bay for a long while.

Hypothetically.

U-huh... would that the like the uncrackable RoboCop 3 that came this a (hardware) doobie, the game not working without it?... Only to have a hacked version of the game avlible before the offical version hit the shops? :)

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Just noticed that the title of this thread starts "8mm discs". If they were that small, wouldn't they get lost all of the time? Surely 8cm's would be a much more suitable size.

md

You'd think that wouldnt you... However due to Nintendos new patentded Shrink'o'ray everyone who buys a GC will be forcably shrunk to less than 2 inches high, making the disks in comparison seem rather large... (Nintendos evil plans for world domination continue)