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Rumours surrounding a mini-Gamecube, or "Gameboy Evolution" has been cited for some time. Recently Matt from IGN was asked this question:
The Next Game Boy
matt you seem down on the ds but what about the next game boy do you think that could compete with PSP?
Matt responds: Don't let my rants fool you. I'm not down on the DS. I'm just waiting to see its true potential realized. As for the next Game Boy, which I'll call Game Boy Evolution since this seems to be the popular title for it, I'm extremely optimistic.
Actually, based on things I've heard, the paths of the DS and GBE have intersected already. Sources claim that the idea for the next Game Boy took flight right about the same time GameCube launched. The device was merely supposed to be a portable GameCube. Nintendo was hoping to create a synergy between the two platforms. However, for whatever reason -- probably an inability to miniaturize the GameCube at a consumer-friendly price -- the Game Boy successor was abandoned. Instead, Nintendo opted to use an old piece of tech: a hardware dubbed Nitro that was originally developed to be an update to the Game Boy line during the PS1 era. At former NCL president Hiroshi Yamauchi's suggestion, the tech was enhanced with a second screen and later a touch-sensitive interface. Thus, the DS was born.
What's interesting is that work on Game Boy Evolution is allegedly further along than most of us would probably guess. And more intriguing still, sources claim that Nintendo is once again trying to make the machine a portable GameCube.
If that comes to fruition, I will likely be singing the praises of Game Boy Evolution from the very start. It would be an amazing accomplishment. The machine would have a potential library of 500 games from launch. Imagine being able to play Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Wave Race, and Pikmin on the go. It's a Nintendo fan's dream come true.
That... would be... great. And it would mean the Gamecube would continue to have software developed for it.
The Next Game Boy
matt you seem down on the ds but what about the next game boy do you think that could compete with PSP?
Matt responds: Don't let my rants fool you. I'm not down on the DS. I'm just waiting to see its true potential realized. As for the next Game Boy, which I'll call Game Boy Evolution since this seems to be the popular title for it, I'm extremely optimistic.
Actually, based on things I've heard, the paths of the DS and GBE have intersected already. Sources claim that the idea for the next Game Boy took flight right about the same time GameCube launched. The device was merely supposed to be a portable GameCube. Nintendo was hoping to create a synergy between the two platforms. However, for whatever reason -- probably an inability to miniaturize the GameCube at a consumer-friendly price -- the Game Boy successor was abandoned. Instead, Nintendo opted to use an old piece of tech: a hardware dubbed Nitro that was originally developed to be an update to the Game Boy line during the PS1 era. At former NCL president Hiroshi Yamauchi's suggestion, the tech was enhanced with a second screen and later a touch-sensitive interface. Thus, the DS was born.
What's interesting is that work on Game Boy Evolution is allegedly further along than most of us would probably guess. And more intriguing still, sources claim that Nintendo is once again trying to make the machine a portable GameCube.
If that comes to fruition, I will likely be singing the praises of Game Boy Evolution from the very start. It would be an amazing accomplishment. The machine would have a potential library of 500 games from launch. Imagine being able to play Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Wave Race, and Pikmin on the go. It's a Nintendo fan's dream come true.
That... would be... great. And it would mean the Gamecube would continue to have software developed for it.
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I said it would be fine if it just played GC games as an extra, like how the DS plays GBA games, but it would have to be something different as well.
And if you went out and bought copies of GC games that you already had again for the GBE then you're just getting shafted by Nintendo over and over again.
Look at the actual article though. It says that Nintendo are trying to make the next Gameboy a portable GC. Not that it will have backwards compatibility, but that it will be a portable GC. That suggests that it will just play GC games, rather than have any exclusive GB games.
Please tell me that you see how stupid and pointless this is?
And if you went out and bought copies of GC games that you already had again for the GBE then you're just getting shafted by Nintendo over and over again.
Look at the actual article though. It says that Nintendo are trying to make the next Gameboy a portable GC. Not that it will have backwards compatibility, but that it will be a portable GC. That suggests that it will just play GC games, rather than have any exclusive GB games.
Please tell me that you see how stupid and pointless this is?
Dringo wrote:
> The games would have to be re-released anyway due to copywrite
> issues.
you mean copyright, but why?
why would playing GC games on a handheld be any different than using the backwards compatibility on the PS2?
> The games would have to be re-released anyway due to copywrite
> issues.
you mean copyright, but why?
why would playing GC games on a handheld be any different than using the backwards compatibility on the PS2?
gerrid wrote:
> If they used the same discs, the same processor etc but you couldn't
> play them on the GC then that would just be Nintendo shafting you in
> the ass every time you buy a GBE game.
Not if the GBE had DS-a-like advancements, like, for example, Dual Screens Not suggesting teh GBA will, but if GBE games do use 2 screens, there'd be good reason for the GC not to play them.
> If they used the same discs, the same processor etc but you couldn't
> play them on the GC then that would just be Nintendo shafting you in
> the ass every time you buy a GBE game.
Not if the GBE had DS-a-like advancements, like, for example, Dual Screens Not suggesting teh GBA will, but if GBE games do use 2 screens, there'd be good reason for the GC not to play them.
gerrid wrote:
>
> Surely a GBA with 10x the power would just be a PSP. If that's what
> you want then buy a PSP.
Except the PSP doesn't play Nintendo games.
Loads of people play the Gameboy on the go, that's the entire appeal of handheld gaming. Just because you play it at home doesn't autmatically mean everyone does. I play it on the go, so does Mattribute, he just said it!
And the GBE might be more powerful than the GC, it might be able to do more things the GC can do and some GC games probably won't work on the GBE.
The games would have to be re-released anyway due to copywrite issues.
>
> Surely a GBA with 10x the power would just be a PSP. If that's what
> you want then buy a PSP.
Except the PSP doesn't play Nintendo games.
Loads of people play the Gameboy on the go, that's the entire appeal of handheld gaming. Just because you play it at home doesn't autmatically mean everyone does. I play it on the go, so does Mattribute, he just said it!
And the GBE might be more powerful than the GC, it might be able to do more things the GC can do and some GC games probably won't work on the GBE.
The games would have to be re-released anyway due to copywrite issues.
If they used the same discs, the same processor etc but you couldn't play them on the GC then that would just be Nintendo shafting you in the ass every time you buy a GBE game.
And if you're trying to question people's ability to be stupid, and pay £100 more for something of a lower quality, just look at the iPod mini, and iPod, indeed, in general.
There are other products on the market of similar (and, as Phi11ip would day, better) product on the market, but people still insist on paying £££ more for Apple's little device. And they pay about the same amount for 20Gb as they do for 5Gb.
There are other products on the market of similar (and, as Phi11ip would day, better) product on the market, but people still insist on paying £££ more for Apple's little device. And they pay about the same amount for 20Gb as they do for 5Gb.
Who said the GC could play GBE games, potentially? Then they'd just be GC games, wouldn't they?
Whitestripes DX wrote:
> And why are you talking as if it's only going to play Gamecube
> games?
But don't you see? If you can play these new GBE games on your Gamecube why buy one? you already have a console that can play the games.
And if the DS played N64 carts then it would be called a portable N64.
Surely a GBA with 10x the power would just be a PSP. If that's what you want then buy a PSP.
> And why are you talking as if it's only going to play Gamecube
> games?
But don't you see? If you can play these new GBE games on your Gamecube why buy one? you already have a console that can play the games.
And if the DS played N64 carts then it would be called a portable N64.
Surely a GBA with 10x the power would just be a PSP. If that's what you want then buy a PSP.
mattributé wrote:
> The point of the GBE would not be to play GC games on the go (and, if
> it was, it would be pretty crap). The point of the GBE would be so it
> could totally own the PSP and fade teh DS out.
And I played my DS on t'bus the other day.
> The point of the GBE would not be to play GC games on the go (and, if
> it was, it would be pretty crap). The point of the GBE would be so it
> could totally own the PSP and fade teh DS out.
And I played my DS on t'bus the other day.
The reason that the GBA has done so well is just that it's percieved as cheaper than a home console by parents. This GBE would cost more than a GC, so what exactly would it's draw be?
Playing games on the go is your main argument, but hardly anyone does that. Also my argument stands that you would be playing the same games, whether on the go or not. If you don't want to play the games (because you've JUST PLAYED THEM), you don't want to play the games, in your house in the park in the zoo WHEREVER.
Playing games on the go is your main argument, but hardly anyone does that. Also my argument stands that you would be playing the same games, whether on the go or not. If you don't want to play the games (because you've JUST PLAYED THEM), you don't want to play the games, in your house in the park in the zoo WHEREVER.
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