Same marketing mentality even with the NES carts. "Bigger then a 2600 cart so must be better."Flake wrote:It's a problem with the US market. Microsoft didn't name their latest machine 360 because it has anything to do with a circle - they didn't want their machine to be labeled '2' while Sony's was labeled '3'. People might have perceived their machine as being less than the competition.noiseredux wrote:I love the Japanese GCN cases. They look so much better than full size DVD cases. And they make more sense. It's a small console, with small disc-games. So the cases should be small. I know this sounds funny, but I always thought the console would have done a bit better had it differentiated itself a bit more from PS2 and XBox by going with the smaller game cases.
I think Nintendo made the same decision with their game cases. They wanted to make sure that GC games took up as much physical shelf space in stores as the competition. Of course, it's kinda hard to say that this strategy worked for them...
The smaller cases would have been pretty cool, from a collectors stand point.
How about the monster size Atari 5200 and XBox.
Back on topic.
Maybe for the Gamecube mini DVD the more robust case was used. Better support at the raised square ridges.
