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The Wii Optical Disc is the 12mm optical disc created to work with the Wii. It is shaped like a normal disc such as a CD or DVD, but only works on the Wii & Wii U (via backwards compatibility). The disc that was used held 4.7-8.54 gigabytes. Compared to the previous generation GameCube, it's maximum storage size on a disc was 1.5 gigabytes. This helped the Wii for more quality game play and graphics. These proprietary discs had copy protection to prevent illegal distributing and selling. The Wii was unable to read DVD/CD media due to Nintendo not wanting to pay fees that come with compatibility. The Wii discs often had 2 partitions, one for the game ISO and the other for software updates. (In case you never connected your Wii to the internet and to add promotional Wii shop channel links to the home menu.) The Wii discs were mostly used for games, but were sometimes for other software programs such as a Netflix disc. The Wii used a special authentication "handshake" this authentication prevented people from sticking regular DVD/CD media because it lacked the "handshake" that official Wii games had, this prevents the flood of low quality games that flood the market. Nintendo uses this strategy to prevent going bankrupt. This "handshake" method also helped the other way if you put a Wii disc in a PC optical drive, the PC optical drive lacked the other side of the "handshake" so the Wii disc could not be read.