Nintendo is also way to uptight about copyright infringement. So they use small disc, and made the Gamecube so small that it doesnt play dvds or cds. Thats why I never bought it. And besides, cartridges had a helluva lot less memory than discs. So they would've used about 15 cartridges for FFVII (seeing as thats when Square left) and it would have costed over $500 just to buy it.