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Game Boy Micro Announced
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.
Very nice. Although, that screen is obviously tiny. It's about 2/3rds the width of the cartriadge. They did say it was the best screen they've put on a handheld though.
If it's cheap enough, I'll probably pick one up.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
The submitter said it is slightly larger than an iPod, I believe it should say "slightly larger than the iPod Mini"
but my hands get cramped enough on the SP that I can't imagine anything smaller or thinner than that.
GB Micro: 4" wide, 0.7" thick
GBA SP: 3.2" wide, ~0.9" thick
It's not smaller, as far as your hands are concerned. It's wider. A little thinner, but really not much (maybe not even, I'm not sure those numbers are the 'unfolded' numbers). Smaller than the original GBA's 5.7", but still wider than the GBA SP.
When will they get this right? 80 paperclips? What is that in Library of Congress Index Cards?
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