New Game Boy Advance hardware may emerge at E3 - analyst report...

[DragonMasterAlex]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
So does that mean Sony is the Devil for renovating the PS1 and PS2, also?

The difference is that those were just made smaller. More portable.

I think Nintendo is doing this deliberately. They most definetely should have known that the original GBA was impossible to play on. A backlit display was a must and they just chose to ignore it?? No. They simply wanted more money. They had to know that everyone would have to buy an aftermarket light for it. And everyone of them sucked REALLY bad. I take it you never owned the original GBA? Or you would know what I'm talking about.

Then they simply forget a headphone jack? Haaa. Not that that was as big a deal as the first thing.

The absense of a backlit on the original GBA royally pissed me off as a loyal Nintendo customer.

So maybe you can enlighten me as to what Sony left out in the original PS that they needed to "fix" in the PSone?? Oh, wait. Thats right, they left out the ROM drive and needed to fix that. Seriosly, leaving out a backlit display made it as impossible to play games on as a PS sans a ROM drive would.

Hey, I have an original GBA and it's not impossible to play on Yeah, I wish I had an SP instead, but this one does the trick for now

Now, if the new GameBoy turned out to be, in effect, say, a handheld GameCube, completely compatible with existing games and, say, the ability to burn movies/MP3's/etc onto those cute little Mini-DVD's...I'd be all over it

Jason

Jason

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Originally posted by: Baked
PS bitch slapped SNES, PS2 bitch slapped GC, and PSP will bitch slap DS. /thread

Actually PS1 bitch slapped N64, not SNES. And to this day, SNES *still* has more great games than PS1. Sony's got some good games (And I think the MGS series is the best-told story on any console system to date, particularly MGS3), but overall their library sucks.

Jason

 

[Schadenfreude]

So, is this is re-tuned DS or just the GBA?

I'm guessing it's just a re-tuned version of the GBA but . . . why?

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
So does that mean Sony is the Devil for renovating the PS1 and PS2, also?

The difference is that those were just made smaller. More portable.

I think Nintendo is doing this deliberately. They most definetely should have known that the original GBA was impossible to play on. A backlit display was a must and they just chose to ignore it?? No. They simply wanted more money. They had to know that everyone would have to buy an aftermarket light for it. And everyone of them sucked REALLY bad. I take it you never owned the original GBA? Or you would know what I'm talking about.

Then they simply forget a headphone jack? Haaa. Not that that was as big a deal as the first thing.

The absense of a backlit on the original GBA royally pissed me off as a loyal Nintendo customer.

So maybe you can enlighten me as to what Sony left out in the original PS that they needed to "fix" in the PSone?? Oh, wait. Thats right, they left out the ROM drive and needed to fix that. Seriosly, leaving out a backlit display made it as impossible to play games on as a PS sans a ROM drive would.

Hey, I have an original GBA and it's not impossible to play on Yeah, I wish I had an SP instead, but this one does the trick for now

Now, if the new GameBoy turned out to be, in effect, say, a handheld GameCube, completely compatible with existing games and, say, the ability to burn movies/MP3's/etc onto those cute little Mini-DVD's...I'd be all over it

Jason

Jason

lol yeah right. a) there is no friken way they could get the battery life over 2 hours if they did that. Cube disks spin constantly.
b) unless they have been secretly implementing features on games multiplayer would e hard to impliment as well as other bugs.
c) profit is good. there is no way they would make a lot of money by using the exact same games.
the biggest problem would be the battery life. There is no way they could get it to be long enough.

 

[imported_Reck]

i think it was like 2 years ago with the gb advance, Nintendo waited until everyone went out to buy a gb advance at Christmas time and then a week later they announced a brand new gb. I'm amazed they have such die hard fans after doing things like that. their business ethics are terrible. their stategy is...

1)release crapy product that's functionally incomplete
2)release a folow up that's basically the same as the previous version but with the original (easily solved) problems fixed
3)...
4)Profit!

 

[eelw]

With over 150 million GameBoys sold worldwide, who can blame Nintendo for milking it.

 

[ondarkness]

Originally posted by: royaldank
Do they still make DS games? What a joke of a system. Oh wait, it's Nintendo...there should be at least 2 or 3 more games coming this year.

I just bought Pac-Pix for the DS about 20 minutes ago.
Think of drawing your own pac man to eat the ghosts.
I can't put it down.
It's pretty addictive.
EDIT: oh yea, it's fun!

PSP is a shinny ps2 portable, but i dont think ps2 is fun to begin with.
The gameboy is neat for kids to play with.
At the DS launch in LA there were about 500 18-29 year olds waiting till midnight for a successfull launch.
10 of my friends got a DS, and if a new gameboy comes out with said technology, I will buy it.
As most generics say that the DS is the PSP competition, you haven't played both to make an intelligent comment..
But when the next gameboy comes out, I will get it too. Its nintendo. Its fun.
I've got the Virtual boy. guess what, im not a pussy that says it gives me head aches.
Guess what, its fun.

 

[Glitchny]

I love how everyone is already bashing this "new gba" from nintendo when the entire article is meerly speculation, there might not even BE an anouncment or a new system so dont get ur panties all ruffled boys. Also to the few morons that seem blind to the facts that the DS is outselling the PSP like mad (and then try to bash the DS like they know what they are talking about) and most likley will continue to do so, stfu. At least get ur facts straight first. The DS has sold 6million units worldwide, i think the PSP has sold about 600k last time i looked at the news.. and thats not counting the glut of people that returned bad displays. 6mil > 600k

and personally i dont want a Portable PS2 (PSP) id rather play different games, on a different system in a different way, not the same thing just mobile.

Also Nintendo has said multiple times they are not leaving the console market or the handheld market, the GB has sold over 150million units so far and is the most popular gaming PLATFORM in the world. Nintendo isnt going anywhere just yet

 

[gflores]

Just make GameBoy 3, dammit!

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Originally posted by: suse920

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
So does that mean Sony is the Devil for renovating the PS1 and PS2, also?

The difference is that those were just made smaller. More portable.

I think Nintendo is doing this deliberately. They most definetely should have known that the original GBA was impossible to play on. A backlit display was a must and they just chose to ignore it?? No. They simply wanted more money. They had to know that everyone would have to buy an aftermarket light for it. And everyone of them sucked REALLY bad. I take it you never owned the original GBA? Or you would know what I'm talking about.

Then they simply forget a headphone jack? Haaa. Not that that was as big a deal as the first thing.

The absense of a backlit on the original GBA royally pissed me off as a loyal Nintendo customer.

So maybe you can enlighten me as to what Sony left out in the original PS that they needed to "fix" in the PSone?? Oh, wait. Thats right, they left out the ROM drive and needed to fix that. Seriosly, leaving out a backlit display made it as impossible to play games on as a PS sans a ROM drive would.

Hey, I have an original GBA and it's not impossible to play on Yeah, I wish I had an SP instead, but this one does the trick for now

Now, if the new GameBoy turned out to be, in effect, say, a handheld GameCube, completely compatible with existing games and, say, the ability to burn movies/MP3's/etc onto those cute little Mini-DVD's...I'd be all over it

Jason

Jason

lol yeah right. a) there is no friken way they could get the battery life over 2 hours if they did that. Cube disks spin constantly.
b) unless they have been secretly implementing features on games multiplayer would e hard to impliment as well as other bugs.
c) profit is good. there is no way they would make a lot of money by using the exact same games.
the biggest problem would be the battery life. There is no way they could get it to be long enough.

I believe people said exactly the same things about PSP prior to its release, yet here we have it with 3-5 hours of battery life depending on your activity. I'd bet they *can* do it. Can't wait to find out what's up at E3 though!

Jason

 

[Rogue]

Portable Gamecube would totally kick ass. Since they're planning on making their next console backwards compatible, a portable GC would allow for their current stock of games to remain unchanged and eventually clean out the supply over time. In addition to that, the development costs are next to nothing because the architecture for GC games are already out there in developer's hands. We know that ATi has low power consumption chips that are easily more powerful that the engine used in the GC. Likewise, IBM has produced smaller and lower power chips also that probably are more powerful than the current GC architecture. A portable GC would easily wipe up the floor with the PSP and allow for Nintendo to market movies, etc. for the device. Moving the platform to a portable setup would also open up new game types as they often do.

I know that the GC was recently cracked to allow the use of a mod-chip, but are there any fast, easy methods to pirate their games yet? They've held out in that department much longer than their competition and I'm sure have seen a far larger profit margin as a result. Be pissed at them all you want, but Nintendo is still the smartest player in the business and still produce some of the most irresistable games on the market. In a worst case scenario, Nintendo would likely start producing games for the Xbox to take on Sony on another level, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon. I'm sure that Microsoft would readily win out in any bidding war against Sony to secure Nintendo as a game producer which would allow them to further penetrate the Japanese market.

 

[RaiderJ]

If the new Gameboy could play (S)NES Rom's, that would be a BIG selling point. It'll never happen though. :-(