Nintendo unveils new Game Boy

[bo0]

LOL. Is that the same sketch where Haratio Sanz comes in the store with his "authentic Mickey Mouse jacket"?

 

[anno]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
these old eyes would never be able to play that game.

oh the blindness!

😉

they really need to realize that some of their market is over 40 now.. rofl. the advance was a huge disappointment but I love my sp. I don't figure I'm likely to upgrade til they come out with a large print version. 😛

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: bo0
LOL. Is that the same sketch where Haratio Sanz comes in the store with his "authentic Mickey Mouse jacket"?

YES! Awesome skit!

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: supafly
From rough proportional measurements, the screen is about ~1.75" wide by ~1.2" tall.

The screen is officially 2" diagonal. The previous GBAs have been 2.4"x1.6"(giving them a 3:2 physical aspect ratio), or ~2.88" diagonal. Assuming the aspect ratio is the same(it better be), then for a 2" diagonal, we're talking about a screen roughly 1.67"x1.1", or even smaller than your estimate. The new screen is overall over 50% smaller than the old one.:Q

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Reminds me of that SNL sketch where Will Ferrel has that cell phone that is barely bigger than his thumb 😀

rofl, that was a great skit.

 

[ViRGE]

Getting back on the subject at hand though, I'm largely glad Nintendo decided to come out with this; the GBA is the last great 2D console, and it's going to be a sad day when it's retired. My only complaint is that it's not powerful enough to emulate a Sega Genesis(or really even a SNES), otherwise I would never need to own anything besides my GBA SP ever again.

As for Nintendo's new target audience for this, it does make some sense. It's a small pocket-sized device for quick gaming on the go, a market the PSP and NDS completely ignore, and the GBA SP isn't quite suited for(though the game library largely is). I think Nintendo will find moderate success here.

 

[sisq0kidd]

wow

 

[Blazin Trav]

Meh.

 

[ScreaminBuddha]

looks like something they would sell in india....these games are very outdated yaar

 

[RaiderJ]

Nintendo seems to be going down the road that Sega did.... talk about some weird hardware!

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Bear in the mind the target audience is probably small kids
You ever see a kid holding one of the first generations gameboy advances? They look pretty clunky. This gameboy would actually be pretty proportional

they would probably also lose it more easily because it's so small.

 

[Shawn]

I'd probably lose that.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

A PSP would beat that thing up and take its lunch money. 😀

- M4H

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

I'm sure that past the initial wave, this will be a smashing failure.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Chraticn
I'm sure that past the initial wave, this will be a smashing failure.

I'm sure...you'll be wrong.

 

[SirPappy]

Originally posted by: Chraticn
I'm sure that past the initial wave, this will be a smashing failure.

im sure...youre probably right 😉