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The Wii Optical Disc (RVL-006) is the physical game medium for the Wii, created by Panasonic.Nintendo extended its proprietary technology to use a full size 12 cm, 4.7/8.54 GB DVD-based [12] disc, retaining the benefits of the GameCube Game Disc, and adding the standard capacity of a double-layer DVD-ROM.
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Console games are no longer sold in large cardboard boxes; instead, since the early 2000s, DVD cases have been used (as today's major consoles use DVD-sized optical discs), which leave no room for a large manual. Printing is also expensive, and game publishers can save money by including a PDF of the manual on
The Wii reads games from an optical media drive located in the front of the device. The drive is capable of reading Nintendo's proprietary discs, the 12 cm Wii discs and 8 cm GameCube discs, but cannot read other common optical media—namely, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio or compact discs. Although Nintendo had planned on incorporating this feature ...
Despite this, several more Wii games were released, including a few more annual Just Dance sequels, [16] [17] as well as a limited 3,000-copy print run of a physical release of Retro City Rampage DX. The eighth generation had already begun in early 2011, with the release of the Nintendo 3DS .
An early analogue optical disc system existed in 1935, used on Welte's Lichttonorgel sampling organ. [15] An early analog optical disc used for video recording was invented by David Paul Gregg in 1958 [16] and patented in the US in 1961 and 1969. This form of optical disc was a very early form of the DVD (U.S. patent 3,430,966).
The Wii U was released on November 18, 2012 as a direct successor to the Wii, and the first entry in the eighth generation of home video game consoles. The Wii U's distinguishing hardware feature is the GamePad, a tablet-like controller which contains a touchscreen that wirelessly streams a video output from the console. The GamePad's display ...
I think this article should be split into two articles (Nintendo GameCube Optical disks/Wii Optical disks) because they are different sizes and different capacities etc. --MacMad (talk · contribs) 11:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC) They were specifically merged because the individual discs were not notable enough for separate articles.