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Nintendo Releases 32-bit Handheld Device
Mad Browser writes "Nintendo announced a new handheld game device that runs on a 32-bit ARM processor. Supposedly available in Japan in August 2000 and the US next Christmas, this thing can also connect to a cell phone to do email and Web browsing.
Check out Nintendo's press release here and some other info here. "
Calculator with better graphics costs more than gameboys.
Sega Game Gear has less games(are games still released for it? I didn't know it was still supported.)
A 486 laptop is of no use playing games. That is the only use a Gameboy has. It also weighs more and has less battery life. It could probably emulate a Gameboy okay, but not as long or as well.
Why buy a Gameboy? To play games, silly. Unless you don't play games, then no game machine will interest you.
I have a cell phone. I'd like one of these GameBoys. For games. I'd use something else for email, though being able to just finger myself and see who's sent me email is nice(just another fancy pager/beeper like device). Why would anyone waste their money on a Palm Pilot when you have pads of paper(gads, imagine how much paper $260 would get you!)
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Nintendo has repeatedly shied away from including backlights for two main reasons. 1) They consume an enormous ammount of power. Remember the 6 AAs it took to run the Game Gear and they only lasted a few hours, and weighed a ton. The new Gameboy runs for 20 hrs with 2 AAs and the reflective LCD they use only needs a minimal ammount of light. 2) Backlights are yet another part that can break, and if it burns out, youre left with a $100 paperweight.