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Next-gen Game Boy to Hit Stores This Year?

Posted by Zonk on from the could-be dept.

Jason writes "CNN's always enjoyable Game Over column has an interesting story up about Nintendo's plans to launch its next generation Game Boy in 2005, as opposed to the expected 2006 release. The column predicts official word on the new GBA will come during Satoru Iwata's keynote at GDC. As yet, no features are known, but author Chris Morris speculates this could just be an incremental step, rather than a full-fledged generational leap."

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  1. Re:Risky.. by supersuckers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree with the grandparent. Let's go through a timeline of nintendo's handhelds starting with the gameboy (ignoring before that):

    1989: gameboy launched
    1996: gameboy pocked launched (better screen, smaller, but same game system)
    1998: gameboy color launched. This is nine years after the original gameboy, and it still played gameboy games.
    2001: gameboy advance launched.
    2003: gameboy advance sp launched. Mostly cosmetic changes to the original gameboy advance.
    2004: nintendo DS launched. Backwards compatible with gameboy advance.

    What on earth are you crying about? We've basically got 3 systems since 1989, and each "new" one has been backwards compatible. The original gameboy advance game out in 2001. The DS was the next major change, in late 2004. Actually, can you name many other markets that have moved that SLOW???

  2. New Game Boy should use DS chipset by drwiii · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nintendo would be suicidal to play it any other way. The new Game Boy should use the DS chipset without the frills (touch screen, microphone, wireless, second display) with the same cartridge form factor. That way, existing DS owners will have "forward" compatibility with the new Game Boy offerings and Nintendo doesn't end up segmenting their market.