The Wii U’s Game Discs Have a Soft, Rounded Edge.
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The Wii U’s Game Discs Have a Soft, Rounded Edge.
Most have been so excited to get their discs open they haven't been noticing, but Engadget have spotted something weird on the Wii U's proprietary disc format: the discs' edges are rounded.
Because these are special Nintendo discs, and not DVDs or Blu-Rays, I guess the company needed to do something to differentiate their product, so rounded edges it is.
The effect is described "as if the folks at Nintendo took sandpaper to every edge of every disc, making them all the more friendly to the touch".
Which sure sounds like something Nintendo would do. "There is not enough joy in these discs! Round the edges to create more happiness for the user when they first experience the disc!"
There's something immediately striking about Nintendo's Wii U proprietary disc format that's hard to notice in photos -- it's got rounded edges, both outside and in. It feels 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 up to 25GB of data -- 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 never wanna go back.
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MartyMar- SNES
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Wii U FINAL SCORE: 10/10
Disks are rounded.
Disks are rounded.
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Wow, news has been really slow.
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I wanna feel a disc now
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Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
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I wanna see how superior these disks are first o_eThethundara wrote:Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
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They have something like a 22 mb/s disk read speed and hold 25 GB of data. So these disks are pretty damn substantial.Soxas wrote:I wanna see how superior these disks are first o_eThethundara wrote:Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
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BUT I NEED TO FEEEL ONE O_O'MBParadox wrote:They have something like a 22 mb/s disk read speed and hold 25 GB of data. So these disks are pretty damn substantial.Soxas wrote:I wanna see how superior these disks are first o_eThethundara wrote:Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
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MBParadox wrote:They have something like a 22 mb/s disk read speed and hold 25 GB of data. So these disks are pretty damn substantial.Soxas wrote:I wanna see how superior these disks are first o_eThethundara wrote:Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
Sounds good, I guess. The first game I'll be getting for my Wii U will be ZombiU.
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Name: SoxasSoxas wrote:BUT I NEED TO FEEEL ONE O_O'MBParadox wrote:They have something like a 22 mb/s disk read speed and hold 25 GB of data. So these disks are pretty damn substantial.Soxas wrote:I wanna see how superior these disks are first o_eThethundara wrote:Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
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Has anyone felt the disc?
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Name: SoxasMBParadox wrote:Name: SoxasSoxas wrote:BUT I NEED TO FEEEL ONE O_O'MBParadox wrote:They have something like a 22 mb/s disk read speed and hold 25 GB of data. So these disks are pretty damn substantial.Soxas wrote:I wanna see how superior these disks are first o_eThethundara wrote:Fascinating. Does anybody really care if their are soft rounded edges?
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Yes, yes it doesXanthos wrote:it feels awesome
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*Round and soft curves with a hole.Soxas wrote:Yes, yes it doesXanthos wrote:it feels awesome
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Mmmm MBP has the ideaMBParadox wrote:*Round and soft curves with a hole.Soxas wrote:Yes, yes it doesXanthos wrote:it feels awesome
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