
HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM. Blu-ray Disc ( BD): BD-R & BD-RE, Blu-ray 3D, Mini Blu-ray Disc. DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, DVD-Video, HVD, EcoDisc, MiniDVD. Compact disc ( CD): CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, Super Audio CD ( SACD), Photo CD, CD Video ( CDV), Video CD ( VCD), Super Video CD ( SVCD), CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i, MIL-CD, Mini CD. In 2017, Nintendo discontinued disc-based media in favor of game cards for the Wii U's successor, the Nintendo Switch, although it would license several more physically released Wii and Wii U games for many more months, with the last one being a port of Shakedown: Hawaii to both consoles in the summer of 2020. All official discs and their formats were manufactured and developed by Panasonic. A burst cutting area is located at the inner ring of the disc surface. To maintain backward compatibility between generations of game consoles, GameCube discs are compatible with the first model of the Wii, and Wii Optical Discs are compatible with the Wii U. The physical size of a GameCube Game Disc is that of a miniDVD the Wii is based on DVD format, and Wii U Optical Discs are based on Blu-ray format.
These are the GameCube Game Disc, Wii Optical Disc, and Wii U Optical Disc. Nintendo optical discs are physical media used to distribute video games on three of Nintendo's consoles that followed the Nintendo 64. Proprietary optical disc formats used in the GameCube, Wii, and Wii U video game consoles