Nintendo Announces GBA Sales Milestone

Thanks to TotalVideoGames.com for their article highlighting Nintendo's announcement that there have been 15 million GameBoy Advances sold in the U.S., at a rate of "...more than one unit sold every six seconds since the introduction of the Game Boy Advance in June, 2001." Nintendo also officially announced two new colors for the GBA SP, Flame (red) and Onyx (black), and even lay out their reasoning for those picks: "Color psychologists believe that certain hues generate specific, and often very strong responses in people. For example, black can foster strength and encourage independence, while red empowers and can stimulate the mind." Feel empowered yet?

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Re:Well then

[scot4875]

Nevermind that those *could* have been the reasons that they were available in Japan since launch to begin with.

--Jeremy

That's silly.

[Inoshiro]

"I was refuting this by saying that if a handheld were released where all others things were equal but the graphic capabilities of this new handheld were equal to the PS2, the more capable model would sell well."

Besides that being a complete crap statement because it would not exist in real life (being that there would be no way that two such systems could exist differening only in graphics capability and not in cost or availability), the fact of the matter is games are the only measure of a system. I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until you retards understand it. I don't play the Dolby Digital on an Xbox any more than I play the PS2 DVD movie feature -- they're just features, entirely tangental to wether there are games worth playing on the damn console!

You can make a SuperDuperGameWhiz9000 which claims 7.1 audio, ultraD mega-defitition cornea vision graphics, and pants-shittingly good controllers that also have the ability to bend time -- but without a game to play on it that's worth anything, your console will sell nowhere near as well as the original NES because people buy game consoles to play games, not to wank off to a set of static features in a brochure.

I also reassert: if Nintendo ever went to the trouble of putting TV out and a power adapter in with the GBA player + a controller and sold it for ~100$ CDN, it would sell. Parents would have no problem buying it for the kids, because it would be inexpensive and judged to be easier for the younger ones. When you make your coke-head examples where market forces like these don't exist, you only prove your ignorance of the game market.