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| monjici:
Had a bit of a weird experience the other day. I went to buy AC3 for Wii U, but they only has used ones. I wanted a new copy (was only a few dollars more), so I told the sales guy that I would not take it. Then the weird part. He looked at me like if I was stupid to not buy the used copy and told me: - It's a blu ray. Me - ??? This is the Wii U game, not PS3. - It's a blu ray. Me - ??? OK. (whatever) - It's a blu ray. It's unscrachable! Me - ??? (Two lies in the same sentence...) No thanks. I could see that it was useless to educate the guy, so I just dropped it there. He obviously doesn't know the console specs and do not have kids destroying his discs. |
| palmer6strings:
Well, the guy at GameStop is right, it's a BluRay style disc, but that doesn't mean they cannot be scratched. I think it's a load of crap that they don't just go ahead and write the code to play BluRay discs in the system when it has a BluRay drive... They must know that thier system is going to be placed alongside another current gen system so they don't bother with it. Lol. :P I personally don't mind getting used games. BUT I always make them let me check it before I check out to make sure it's complete and that the disc is in good shape. |
| shenske:
--- Quote from: palmer6strings on September 24, 2014, 11:55:46 AM ---I think it's a load of crap that they don't just go ahead and write the code to play BluRay discs in the system when it has a BluRay drive... disc is in good shape. --- End quote --- Its not a blue ray disc. Its a proprietary disc made by Panasonic for Nintendo (It can hold up to 25gb per disc). While it looks similar and has a similar scratch resistant surface it is a different type disc. I'm sure they went this way for anti-piracy measures considering how easy it was to modify the original wii. |
| tiktektak:
Still it uses a blue laser right? So to me it's a proprietary bluray... ;D |
| sheep2001:
Nintendo did the same with the wii. DVD drive but no DVD playback. I think they want to keep their consoles as gaming systems, not media centers. Most nintendo gamers already have some means of playing their movies/CDs etc, or are too young to care. I don't believe there are many 'gamers' that will only have a wiiu. |
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