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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by jquery on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:11AM (#35989083)
The Gamecube and N64 were both nerfed by Nintendo's insistence on using proprietary storage formats. The N64 cartridge size ranged from 4mb to 64mb (64mb being the maximum at the end of the console's lifespan).

The GameCube used minidvds that had only 30% of the storage space of standard dvds.

The result was a generational game like FF7 was only possible on the PlayStation.

Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by bigbillheck on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:03PM (#35990927)
FF7 was a PS1 game and didn't use DVDs.
Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by jquery on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:42AM (#35997840)
Yes and it used CDs that competed alongside the N64's low storage capacity.