Nintendo Announces GBA Sales Milestone

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 8, 2003 @03:16AM from the heading-towards-one-per-person dept.

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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16 bit era strength by Metroid72 · 2003-09-08 03:33 · Score: 4, Interesting

The popularity of this platform proves that the 16bit era was the golden age of videogames.

Gameplay was king, and that was the primary selling point of the Genesis and SNES.

Hopefully developers will continue to expand it with original ideas, instead of ports of older games.

It still also constitutes a potential entry for the new game programmer.