GBA SP Updated with Brighter Backlit Screen

PSXer writes "Nintendo has quietly included a much brighter backlit screen into the new Game Boy Advance SP Graphite and Pearl Blue colors. From the article: "Though all that's changed between the classic GBA SP system and the updated ones is the screen technology, the difference is night and day. The new system kicks on with incredible brightness and clarity in its display right from the start, and the improvement becomes even more obvious with each game you stick in the system.""

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GayBoy

[Anonymous Coward]

So, you like playing games and sucking on long, tubular objects, eh?

Well, it figures. "I play GameBoy" just screams "I'm suck dick". Get an Xbox or die, fag.

Re:psss who need a brigher blacklight

[doublem]

Gave up on Game boy line ages ago.

I liked my first generation Game Boy, and even my Game Boy color, but I'll never buy another game boy again.

The Game Boy Advance was a miserable abortion of technology.

First, there was the terrible backlight, or lack thereof.

Then, they started porting old Super Nintendo games to it, which was cool, but it made some of them difficult to play as the Game Boy Advance was missing a few buttons the Super Nintendo controllers had.

The glare off the screen didn't help any.

Then there were the lights.

There were light available to clip onto your Game Boy * that would make the screen visible. The actual plug was exactly the same in the Game Boy Color and the GBA, but they rotated it 90 degrees.

This meant that the lights I had for my GBC wouldn't work with my GBA.

It's a petty thing, I know, but it annoyed me.

Then came the next model of the Game Boy line, the one where you had to buy a special adapter to plug in headphones.

My original Game Boy had included head phones, but the new one required a frigging adapter to use them.

Game Boy died for me at that point. I realized that they really were just trying to milk their customer base for all it's worth, and the needless cycle of new models with changes like a "better" screen tells me that they intended to do this.

"Why give them a decent screen and backlight in the first model, when we can make some of them pay for a second device????"

And it's not like this is a "New" problem for them. The lack of decent back lighting has been an issue for a few generations of the hardware.

No, Nintendo is dead to me. I eagerly anticipate the day I read a headline about them closing shop. I'll be a long time coming, because they still have plenty of fans out there, and it'll be sad to see the end of new Link games, but since I don't buy Nintendo hardware anymore anyway, I won't be getting any new Link games anyhow.

Sure, just joke about it

[aliquis]

But look what happens when Sony tries to be innovative.
PSP Metal Gear Acid 3D-binoculars, full story, that's one pair of sexy glasses.
I'm sure the PSP will never make you look like a geek.