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Game Boy Micro Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-so-teeny! dept.

The Nintendo press conference this afternoon revealed the new Game Boy Advanced format: the Game boy Micro. The new handheld will play all GBA titles, and is only slightly larger than an iPod. From the article: "The sporty, silver metal Game Boy Micro measures a mere 4 inches wide, 2 inches tall and 0.7 inches deep, allowing it to sit comfortably alongside today's hippest technological gadgets. It weighs an astonishing 2.8 ounces, or about the weight of 80 paper clips. Yet Game Boy Micro has the same processing power and plays the same games as Game Boy Advance SP models, complete with standard face controls and gleaming shoulder and Start/Select buttons that literally shine." Photo available from the AP.

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  1. Re:Tiny goodness by Reignking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The price is going to be very important in determining if this will be successful or not. Very interesting to see Nintendo offering multiple levels of portable gaming: Micro, Gameboy, and DS.

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  2. Too Tiny! by ArielMT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This reminds me of the Sony Watchman and all the other micro TV sets when they hit the market en force. (I remember an episode of Home Improvement, I think it was, where something happened to the great room TV, and everyone tried watching football on a screen this small... With a magnifying glass, no less.)

    If you don't need glasses yet, I'd wager that the eye strain from trying to play this thing will make you need a pair right quick.

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  3. why? by solidsnake5014 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is nintendo re-re-releasing the GBA? They have a brand new hand held out now and should be concentrating on it. Not bashing the GBA though its great, but seriously how stupid does Nintendo think the public is?

    1. Re:why? by elhedran · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Its called accessing new parts of the market.

      For instance, if I have a portable games machine, I want it to be portable. Frankly the DS is too big to fulfill this requirement. So was the first GBA.

      This though, this would take up less room than a wallet or a set of keys. This you could pick up and take with you without feeling like you should be packing a backpack or something.

      Hence, they are really going after the people who look at the other systems and say 'they are too big'. Its much the same as when Apple released the iPod mini. Didn't do anything the existing iPods didn't do, but was smaller.

  4. Re:Going Out on a Limb Here... by FriedTurkey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Plus the SP covers the screen when you carry it around so it doesn't get scratched up.