RSSNintendo Goes Small for Game Boy Micro
By Ed Oswald | Published May 17, 2005, 2:29 PM
Nintendo debuted a new portable gaming system at its pre-E3 press conference on Tuesday, dubbed the Game Boy Micro. About the size of the iPod Mini, the Micro measures four inches wide by two inches tall, and features a two-inch LCD screen.
The Micro comes with a built in rechargeable lithium-ion battery and headphones. Nintendo will also give consumers a choice of colors and designs much like the iPod Mini.
"We're making the gorgeous Game Boy Micro for image-conscious folks who love video games, the ones who want the look of their system to be as cool as the games they play on it," Nintendo senior vice-president George Harrison said to the crowd of approximately 3,000.
"Because of its diminutive size and industrial-hip look, Game Boy Micro immediately identifies the person playing it as a trendsetter with discriminating style."
Nintendo says that while the Micro represents an evolution from the Game Boy Advance, it is not a successor to any system. The Game Boy Advance line has been successful for the company, having sold more than 28 million units since it's release in the United States. Nintendo says that more than 700 games are available for the platform.
The device will be released in the fall of this year.
... my wife prefers the "Maxi" !
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|I have this awful feeling that if you buy one of these hip and cool devices you are also going to have to pay $30 for the cute little mini-cartridge that all your favorite games from 15 years ago will be reproduced on again.
Or maybe it could use tiny little cd's like the Gamecube! People love those!
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|"Nintendo says that while the Micro represents an evolution from the Game Boy Advance, it is not a successor to any system"
Then why name it the GAME BOY Micro lol...
It seems like Nintendo has all the right ideas, they just can't combine them ALL into one system. They go a system at a time incorporating one good idea each. This time, they're trying for the looks of the system. Great, but what does it do? lol
I hope the Revolution turns out better than what I'm hearing about it right now.
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|Don't worry, the Revolution it will be. The one begin shown is just a prototype, they have lot's of time to change stuff. (Just like the DS last year)
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|Yeah, because the DS was *everything* we had hoped for... :-P
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|Evolution and revolution are two very different things... ;)
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|Ninetendo use to be proactive front runner now they are reactive and not much in the game anymore. To let both Sony and Microsoft take over the number 1 and 2 lead is sad. A 2 inch screen way to small of a screen for the average person. A Trendsetter I think not.
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|windows 3.1 and windows Xp both have the word windows in it... but they are nothing alike...
consider the word gameboy the name that will keep the focus of customers on it..
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|But Windows XP is still in the same product line - a direct successor of Windows 3.11. Their statement saying that the Game Boy Micro does not continue any product line confuses me, especially since they are keeping the same name as the previous products. The Revolution is the successor to the Gamecube, but they didn't call it the GameRevolution. Anyway, it's a stupid argument, but I just thought it was a strange statement for them to make lol.
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|think of it as what Game Boy Pocket was to Game Boy. Not confusing at all.
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|XP is a successor of the NT line of Windows, not Windows 3.11. ME was the last successor of Windows 3.11, 2.x and 1.x.
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|OK then XP is a direct successor of the first version of NT and that was NT 3.1 and it looked exactly like Windows 3.11
http://www.granneman.com...s_nt_3.1_screenshot.gif
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|The DS looks rushed into production even in it's revised form really. It's got to be the worse designed handheld I have ever seen.
It's holding it's own very well and is even currently in the lead but I know DAMN WELL it released ahead of when Nintendo would have preferd becose even tohugh N said they were not concerded with Sony and the PSP, you would just have to be a fool to realy belive that. They were and still are concerned. If they dont have any concern N will fail just over there own arrogance as you must always be concerned and prepaired for your competitors actions.
About the Rev. though. N is definitly taking a diffrent rout then MS and Sony. It's going to be intresting to see how N holds up in the coming generation wich is an "all-in-one" generation this time. the PS3 and the 360 are media centers and internet terminals just as much as they are game systems.
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|looks and functionality are 2 diffrent things...
xp home and xp pro are like night and day...
interesting screenshot though...lol
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|Even more intresting when you see this screen.
http://www.aci.com.pl/mw...gs/display/winnt351.png
NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51 all used the windows 3.1 GUI before NT 4.0 switched it to the windows 95 GUI.
Well this is off topic now though so no I'm done.
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