This was definitely peak hardware design. They even compromised the storage medium and system performance to achieve exactly the form they wanted.
Nowadays a console is shaped like a giant fucking water trap from Dune and sounds like a jet engine, and yet still can’t even make games look as good as they did 10-15 years ago.
They didn’t need to compromise. They could have used standard DVD, but they instead designed a whole new format that would be harder to copy. The inner disc tray is recessed to only fit mini-DVD sized discs when it could easily have been made wider and taken full-sized discs.
This was definitely peak hardware design. They even compromised the storage medium and system performance to achieve exactly the form they wanted.
Nowadays a console is shaped like a giant fucking water trap from Dune and sounds like a jet engine, and yet still can’t even make games look as good as they did 10-15 years ago.
The silly part is the GameCube is actually the most powerful console of that generation. The limited storage medium is actually what kneecapped it.
They didn’t need to compromise. They could have used standard DVD, but they instead designed a whole new format that would be harder to copy. The inner disc tray is recessed to only fit mini-DVD sized discs when it could easily have been made wider and taken full-sized discs.