New nintendo system
 

Some of you may have seen this at Penny Arcade.

Why is Nintendo already making a new GBA? I don't care what they say; new portable system = making my brand new GBA SP a piece of junk. Nintendo has had tons of quality games, but I don't like having to buy a new system every six months to play them. I, for one, don't care anymore. I have three gameboys that are all but unuseable and I'll be damned if I'm going to give Nintendo another hundred bucks for the pleasure of a slightly more advanced version of what I already have. I refuse to buy this new system.

Well, according to the article, the Nintendo DS will have two screens, so it's a new idea for games...

Nope. Don't care.

Again? Jeez, at what speed do they shell out their systems lately, for heaven's sake? I fully understand you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, since I myself have officially stopped caring about new Nintendo products around the point where the Gameboy (whichever it was then) became compatible to roughly 90% of all imaginable electronic appliances... Gamecube, toaster, power drill...

Yeah... as you probably recall, so was the Virtual Boy. Remember the Virtual Boy?

... thought so.

I liked the Virtual Boy... Most people just didn't like having to get at a good sitting position or lying position to play it... I'm guessing this is just a hand held, and will be easier to play.

I didn't mind the Virtual Boy so much. I did not, however, like paying for a system that had about six games. Everything that Nintendo releases is either a waste of money (virtual boy, e-reader) or makes something you just bought obsolete.

Yeah, I haven't bought anything past GameBoy Color. That was when I picked up on the pattern and decided there was no way I was buying am Advance(especially cause it was a thinner Game Gear) or SP, and I'm certainly not getting DS or DS Advance, or DS Advance SP, or QX or whatever else they make. Burn them all, BURN NINTENDO! :bmage:

I never had a gameboy. So the day after my cousin got his GBA SP, I bought his regular GBA for $20. Made my day :D

How the hell are they gunna make games utilizing two screens is my question...

Because GBA is more than 3 years old. Let's just look at the chain of Gameboy releases, shall we:

Gameboy: 1987
Gameboy Pocket: 1995?
GBC: 1998
GBA: 2001

Whether you like it or not, the Gameboy is due for an update.

What? You don't like that they make you buy a new GB every few years? I don't hear you complaining about your cellphones, TVs, Stereos, game consoles or PCs this way. Singling out Nintendo for doing what the entire electronics industry does is wrong.

Don't get me wrong, though. It's not that I like it when they do this. I myself bought a GBA, then 8 months later, they released GBA SP. I wasn't very happy. I didn't buy an SP. Why? Because it's exactly the same as GBA. But GB DS will be different. I will buy it.


Ever heard of Game & Watch? Nintendo's done it before, they can do it again.