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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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It matters to me. I don't careif Nintendo make money out of you rebuying games over and over again.
Since when was gaming about what other people played?
Since when was gaming about what other people played?
mermoid wrote:
> No-one said a portable console with the power of a GC would be bad,
> they took objection to the suggestion that it would just BE a GC, but
> portable, which, if you read the thread, is what Dringo has suggested
> several times.
What's wrong with it having the same power as a GC?
Run me through the argument so I can understand this!
> No-one said a portable console with the power of a GC would be bad,
> they took objection to the suggestion that it would just BE a GC, but
> portable, which, if you read the thread, is what Dringo has suggested
> several times.
What's wrong with it having the same power as a GC?
Run me through the argument so I can understand this!
gerrid wrote:
> No. I'm saying if all it did was play gamecube games then I wouldn't
> buy it.
>
> If the GBE offers more power and good, exclusive games, then I would
> buy it.
O...kay. But do you not see the point here.
By playing Gamecube games it has a good back catalogue.
By allowing future GBE games to be played on the Gamecube it'll allow Gamecube owners to buy the software without having to buy the console.
Nintendo make money out of increased software sales.
It doesn't matter if you'll buy it or not.
> No. I'm saying if all it did was play gamecube games then I wouldn't
> buy it.
>
> If the GBE offers more power and good, exclusive games, then I would
> buy it.
O...kay. But do you not see the point here.
By playing Gamecube games it has a good back catalogue.
By allowing future GBE games to be played on the Gamecube it'll allow Gamecube owners to buy the software without having to buy the console.
Nintendo make money out of increased software sales.
It doesn't matter if you'll buy it or not.
No-one said a portable console with the power of a GC would be bad, they took objection to the suggestion that it would just BE a GC, but portable, which, if you read the thread, is what Dringo has suggested several times.
No. I'm saying if all it did was play gamecube games then I wouldn't buy it.
If the GBE offers more power and good, exclusive games, then I would buy it.
If the GBE offers more power and good, exclusive games, then I would buy it.
Are you saying you want the Gameboy franchise to never exceed the power of a beefed up SNES?
Because in five years time handhelds will have more power and better graphics than the Gamecube does, making it a 'portable GC', except with a completely new library of games, and compatibility with your old ones?
How can that possibly be a bad thing?
Because in five years time handhelds will have more power and better graphics than the Gamecube does, making it a 'portable GC', except with a completely new library of games, and compatibility with your old ones?
How can that possibly be a bad thing?
That comment about the early release was just so we can play GTA and so forth on the Gamecube because the Gamecube'll still be played then. The GB has third party support you see and it'd increase the Gamecube's.
Looking back on it, it was a silly suggestion. And I retract it.
Looking back on it, it was a silly suggestion. And I retract it.
Dringo wrote:
> Exactly. That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying this'll be released
> in the Gamecube's life time.
Dringo wrote:
> That's true.
>
> Hopefully we'll see it Christmas 2006 along with revolution.
>
> That'd be nice.
Dringo wrote:
> -Revolution Release date :- Christmas 2006
> -Evolution Release date :- March 2008
>
> That sounds about right.
> Exactly. That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying this'll be released
> in the Gamecube's life time.
Dringo wrote:
> That's true.
>
> Hopefully we'll see it Christmas 2006 along with revolution.
>
> That'd be nice.
Dringo wrote:
> -Revolution Release date :- Christmas 2006
> -Evolution Release date :- March 2008
>
> That sounds about right.
mermoid wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> I maintain the reason why I don't play all my games to death is due
> to
> lack of time. I'm at Uni, or out and about all the time. I'm not
> home
> enough!
>
> Well if you can sit around playing handheld games all the time when
> you're "out and about", whatever you're "out and
> about" for can't be very important.
Going to uni takes 2 hours there and back on the bus.
I also have to wait 50 minutes for the bus back, so I can sit in the cambridge park playing my Gamecube games.
That's about 3 hours gaming a day I could get.
I play games about that a week!
> Dringo wrote:
> I maintain the reason why I don't play all my games to death is due
> to
> lack of time. I'm at Uni, or out and about all the time. I'm not
> home
> enough!
>
> Well if you can sit around playing handheld games all the time when
> you're "out and about", whatever you're "out and
> about" for can't be very important.
Going to uni takes 2 hours there and back on the bus.
I also have to wait 50 minutes for the bus back, so I can sit in the cambridge park playing my Gamecube games.
That's about 3 hours gaming a day I could get.
I play games about that a week!
As a machine hardly any of us would buy it. If it meant that more games would be released for the GC, then that's good, unless they were just substandard versions of Revolution games, in which case that is bad.
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