Listen To Your Game Boy Advance

filmsmith writes "It looks like Nintendo may be interested in using the GBA to enter the PDA market and even considering itself competition for the Apple iPod. It smells of DMCA pandering, though. 'It looks like protection will be in place to ensure that even content recorded by users (through the use of a special adapter) will not be able to be shared with other users.' Planet Gamecube has the article here."

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what

[Anonymous Coward]

what kind of world do we live in where protecting the property rights granted by the constitution to content creators is "pandering to the DMCA"? if you ever created anything worth copyrighting and selling, you would think differently about every Tom Dick and Nigel shitting all over your livelyhood.

We are actually targetting the porn industry

[Samir Gupta]

We at Nintendo are very excited about this project, as you can imagine! I would, however, like to clear up a few things. While GBA can indeed be used as a PDA, or a music player or recorder, we are actually focusing on a specific application, and therefore have designed our initial feature set around it.

Specifically, having done extensive marketing studies within the Japanese and American markets, we've found that there exists a need for a portable pornography viewing device amongst our primary demographic of 15-29 year old males. After thinking about this, we decided that our Game Boy Advance would be the perfect vehicle for storing and viewing prurient images, video, and audio -- it's still a portable form factor, but not as small as one of the ultra-tiny J-phones, so you can still see an image big enough to whack off to. And it's not as big as a laptop either, which is much too big to lug around just for a quick porn fix.

Furthermore, the extremely limited viewing angle of the GBA's passive, non-backlit LCD, while normally a bane for gamers, allows the GBA to be used for viewing porn in public places such as trains, etc. where others may be offended if they see what you're seeing on your screen.

For all these reasons, and others, we are making pornography our primary initial, ahem, thrust for this accessory, and we will address other consumer applications later.