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I was just thinking whether the TV accesory would actually work for the company planning to market it.
Nintendo didn't release a backlit GBA because its battery life would have been about half and hour. Remember the Sega Game Gear? It needed SIX AA batteries and seriously only lasted for half an hour! It had great graphics though.
Anyway, although a backlit GBA would be really classy (I'd buy one), it wouldn't last very long. But, here we have news of a coffee sounding company making a TV accesory for the GBA. If just lighting up the screen drains batteries like a thing which drains things quickly, a TV accessory would last about two seconds and about 0.0003 seconds with only two AA batteries! If you plugged in your GBA into the mains and watched, it would be Ok, but if you had a socket and weren't on the move, you should just watch an ordinary TV. It would have to sell cheaply tho, coz you can get proper portable TVs for about £100. It says it will utilise the GBA screen which should lower the price but somehow I have feelings it will be about as expensive as the GBA itself.
I dunno, it would be a really good product if they could sort out the power useage thing. Hang on! TVs need an aerial! If the thing would come with an aerial, it would be tiny and the picture quality, already limited by the GBAs screen would be crap! If you had to plug in an aerial, you might as well watch an ordinary TV, I don't know about you, but I don't have an aerial connected to my clothes or car!
What do you think will come of this risky venture?
Nintendo didn't release a backlit GBA because its battery life would have been about half and hour. Remember the Sega Game Gear? It needed SIX AA batteries and seriously only lasted for half an hour! It had great graphics though.
Anyway, although a backlit GBA would be really classy (I'd buy one), it wouldn't last very long. But, here we have news of a coffee sounding company making a TV accesory for the GBA. If just lighting up the screen drains batteries like a thing which drains things quickly, a TV accessory would last about two seconds and about 0.0003 seconds with only two AA batteries! If you plugged in your GBA into the mains and watched, it would be Ok, but if you had a socket and weren't on the move, you should just watch an ordinary TV. It would have to sell cheaply tho, coz you can get proper portable TVs for about £100. It says it will utilise the GBA screen which should lower the price but somehow I have feelings it will be about as expensive as the GBA itself.
I dunno, it would be a really good product if they could sort out the power useage thing. Hang on! TVs need an aerial! If the thing would come with an aerial, it would be tiny and the picture quality, already limited by the GBAs screen would be crap! If you had to plug in an aerial, you might as well watch an ordinary TV, I don't know about you, but I don't have an aerial connected to my clothes or car!
What do you think will come of this risky venture?
The next GameBoy will be really amazing! The graphics on the GBA are really good albeit a bit dark and they're just sooooo much better than the original GameBoys. Imagine playing a game with N64 graphics on a hand held! It sounds good in theory, but if you think about it, a hand held with great graphics will still have a small screen so you won't really be able to appreciate them. I think Nintendo should make the next GameBoy system with a backlit screen and at least 10 hours play time with PSX graphics. Hand Helds shouldn't have great graphics, thats for the PC and super consoles. Hand helds are loved for their simplicity. Hopefully, the games will remain great and the console remains reliable.
There will be computer games in the future but they will be so realistic that they won't be fun, don't expect this by 2010 though! :D
Joe_Poly wrote:
> By 2010 they'll proably be a new Game Boy!
Either that or there won't be any more Nintendo to make them, or computer companies to make the games, or even people to worry about whether or not they have got digital or analogue tv's, its a disgusting thought but we could all be dead.
> By 2010 they'll proably be a new Game Boy!
Either that or there won't be any more Nintendo to make them, or computer companies to make the games, or even people to worry about whether or not they have got digital or analogue tv's, its a disgusting thought but we could all be dead.
By 2010 they'll proably be a new Game Boy!
Whats going to happen when they (the government) switch off all the analogue transmitters in the switch to digital, I know its a long way off but did no one think about the long term usefulness of this product if you cant use it after 2010 in the UK.
The picture will be really fuzzy probably, it don't think that it'll take up too much power.
I was just thinking whether the TV accesory would actually work for the company planning to market it.
Nintendo didn't release a backlit GBA because its battery life would have been about half and hour. Remember the Sega Game Gear? It needed SIX AA batteries and seriously only lasted for half an hour! It had great graphics though.
Anyway, although a backlit GBA would be really classy (I'd buy one), it wouldn't last very long. But, here we have news of a coffee sounding company making a TV accesory for the GBA. If just lighting up the screen drains batteries like a thing which drains things quickly, a TV accessory would last about two seconds and about 0.0003 seconds with only two AA batteries! If you plugged in your GBA into the mains and watched, it would be Ok, but if you had a socket and weren't on the move, you should just watch an ordinary TV. It would have to sell cheaply tho, coz you can get proper portable TVs for about £100. It says it will utilise the GBA screen which should lower the price but somehow I have feelings it will be about as expensive as the GBA itself.
I dunno, it would be a really good product if they could sort out the power useage thing. Hang on! TVs need an aerial! If the thing would come with an aerial, it would be tiny and the picture quality, already limited by the GBAs screen would be crap! If you had to plug in an aerial, you might as well watch an ordinary TV, I don't know about you, but I don't have an aerial connected to my clothes or car!
What do you think will come of this risky venture?
Nintendo didn't release a backlit GBA because its battery life would have been about half and hour. Remember the Sega Game Gear? It needed SIX AA batteries and seriously only lasted for half an hour! It had great graphics though.
Anyway, although a backlit GBA would be really classy (I'd buy one), it wouldn't last very long. But, here we have news of a coffee sounding company making a TV accesory for the GBA. If just lighting up the screen drains batteries like a thing which drains things quickly, a TV accessory would last about two seconds and about 0.0003 seconds with only two AA batteries! If you plugged in your GBA into the mains and watched, it would be Ok, but if you had a socket and weren't on the move, you should just watch an ordinary TV. It would have to sell cheaply tho, coz you can get proper portable TVs for about £100. It says it will utilise the GBA screen which should lower the price but somehow I have feelings it will be about as expensive as the GBA itself.
I dunno, it would be a really good product if they could sort out the power useage thing. Hang on! TVs need an aerial! If the thing would come with an aerial, it would be tiny and the picture quality, already limited by the GBAs screen would be crap! If you had to plug in an aerial, you might as well watch an ordinary TV, I don't know about you, but I don't have an aerial connected to my clothes or car!
What do you think will come of this risky venture?