@FluxWaveZ: Yeah. but wont the original 3DS one just work with it?
3DS XL August 19th $200
Nice, does the Game Boy name still hold weight in the gaming world? Nintendo is an odd company. I love them, but I don't get them...sometimes.@Claude said:
When is the new Game Boy coming out?Gameboy Micro Pocket Color XL, coming next year. Makes your old original model Gameboy completely obsolete. Finally, an original Gameboy with a clamshell design.
Makes sense to me, but I always found it odd they abandoned the name. It was huge!@Claude: The Game Boy name will make a return when they're most interested in grasping at nostalgia. It definitely still holds weight. That thing and all of its iterations through the Micro were legendary.
I feel like I could bludgeon someone to death with that thing. Thus, when I inadvertently get a 3DS so I can play Fire Emblem (was that discussed at the conference at all?) I will stick with the basic model. Because handhelds that can fit in my pocket are good.
@Claude said:
@AndrewB said:Makes sense to me, but I always found it odd they abandoned the name. It was huge!@Claude: The Game Boy name will make a return when they're most interested in grasping at nostalgia. It definitely still holds weight. That thing and all of its iterations through the Micro were legendary.
If I had to guess I would say they dropped the GameBoy name because they felt the DS was a risk at the time. Remember, they were still supporting the gameboy line and launched the Micro after the DS was in stores. If the DS tanked they didn't want to ruin an established brand. When the DS first came out it was often called a gimick: who wants two screens and a touchscreen? Dumb!
Could also be for marketing reasons. Maybe they thought it would be harder to sell a "gameboy" to a wider audience.
@ManMadeGod: I think it was just the point that the DS was a side-project experiment that worked amazingly well. After that, the DS name had about as much weight as the GameBoy name. I'd imagine they were always planning on falling back to making another GameBoy after the original DS.
@AndrewB said:
@ManMadeGod: I think it was just the point that the DS was a side-project experiment that worked amazingly well. After that, the DS name had about as much weight as the GameBoy name. I'd imagine they were always planning on falling back to making another GameBoy after the original DS.
I can totally get behind a new GameBoy. Instead of concentrating on dual-screen gaming, make a single-screen powerhouse without the stupid multimedia features of the Vita and 3DS (no cameras, no music or video playing, no Internet browsing, etc.). Just make a GB SP2.
@Vexxan said:
Any word on how the battery life of this beast is?
Despite the larger screen size, 3DS LL improves the battery life over the 3DS. 3DS LL will last 3.5 to 6.5 hours when playing 3DS software, up from the 3 to 5 hours of the standard 3DS. When playing DS software, the LL runs 6 to 10 hours, up from the 5 to 8 hours of the standard 3DS.
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