Is the Gameboy going to become Obsolete?

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with the sucess of the DS' launch, will nintendo abandon their household name gameboy?

dont get me wrong, im anticipating alot of great games on the ds, but i fear nintendo (and other developers) will stop making A+ titles for the gba in favor of supporting their new system.

im not saying i think the gba will die right now, im just saying i think its gunna start to get very poor support (think the ps1 after ps2 came out)

i dont want to see this happen, gba games are some of the best games this gen, and i hope nintendo and other companies still have faith in the system.
 
[quote name='punqsux']with the sucess of the DS' launch, will nintendo abandon their household name gameboy?

dont get me wrong, im anticipating alot of great games on the ds, but i fear nintendo (and other developers) will stop making A+ titles for the gba in favor of supporting their new system.

im not saying i think the gba will die right now, im just saying i think its gunna start to get very poor support (think the ps1 after ps2 came out)

i dont want to see this happen, gba games are some of the best games this gen, and i hope nintendo and other companies still have faith in the system.[/quote]

Nintendo usially sticks with promises, and hey said the DS was a supplement, and that their will still be a new GB
 
The DS is suppose to be the "third pillar", but that is bullshit. After awhile the GBA will start to die, but that won't happen this year, but it will start, it's just how things go.

The Gameboy Elite will probably be launched in two years so it's not like the Gameboy name is dead.
 
Yeah but people wont want to buy a new gameboy a year or maybe even two years after they already bought a DS. 3 years is usually the length of the GB cause when you figure the Color came in 98 and the GBA came in 01 and DS 04.
 
The GBA came out in '01?! WOW! It seems like I just picked up this little guy not that long ago... *sniff* :(
 
it will start to die, but not until the DS has a firm grasp on the market, which will take a year or so. After sales of the DS and it's games surpas that of the GBA, you'll see less and less games for the GBA and more for the DS. It will be awhile though.
 
Nintendo has said that the next GB system (Gameboy Elite is what they copyrighted) will come out in 2-3 years depending on DS sales. What that really means is that if the DS is doing well against the PSP the next GB will come out later. If the DS is not doing so well again the PSP the next GB will come out sooner.
 
Gameboy has made Nintendo millions, so there's no reason they will stop making games for those who don't own a DS. However, you can see that there are fewer games being made for it...
 
[quote name='Vampire Hunter D']Yeah but people wont want to buy a new gameboy a year or maybe even two years after they already bought a DS. 3 years is usually the length of the GB cause when you figure the Color came in 98 and the GBA came in 01 and DS 04.[/quote]


That's an awesome figure as long as you ignore the number "89".

Game Boy brand isn't dead and won't be any time soon. It's likely that Nintendo's choice of refraining usage of the Game Boy brand on the Nintendo DS was not due to any decision to slowly phase it out, but quite the contrary. The Nintendo DS is a pivotal point for Nintendo, the result of this experiment will shape the business plan for the future.

The launch and continued life of the DS will answer one question: is the Revolution dead on arrival, or does it, in fact, have a chance to live up to its name?

This is an experiment and there's no need to potentially tarnish the Game Boy name in such, especially when potentially (
 
I hope not, because im skipping out on both DS/PSP(at least until they are cheap or i find one cheap).

They said that a successor to the GBA was coming. A few years isnt that long to wait, and Nintendo and other companies still have thousands of ports they could release.
 
Heh...for some reason when reading the topic title, I thought it read "Is the Gameboy going to become Chocolate". That would be pretty cool.

And I think that Nintendo said something along the lines of the DS NOT being in the GB family, and they would be working on a new GB soon.
 
[quote name='Medium_Pimpin']I hope not, because im skipping out on both DS/PSP(at least until they are cheap or i find one cheap).

They said that a successor to the GBA was coming. A few years isnt that long to wait, and Nintendo and other companies still have thousands of ports they could release.[/quote]

...or original games, maybe? There are ports for the GBA, yes, but there are far more original titles out there...

[quote name='slimpip']Heh...for some reason when reading the topic title, I thought it read "Is the Gameboy going to become Chocolate". That would be pretty cool.[/quote]

No it wouldn't. My sweaty hands would make it melt. :(

As far as my opinion goes...there are hundreds of GBA games that I have yet to play, including gems like Fire Emblem or Car Battler Joe. I can keep myself busy with that giant group, if need be.
 
[quote name='tyecko']crap I hope GBA doesn't die because I just got mine last winter and I wouldn't want it to be obsolete already.[/quote]

Even if it was beginning to become obsolete, would it truly be that bad of a thing? It has a great library and some of the best are yet to come (Minish Cap). You can't lose with the Game Boy Advance.
 
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I trust Nintendo. They tell me that the GBA's not going anywhere, I trust that it won't. Then again, I may be a bit gullible.
 
http://www.n-sider.com/articleview.php?articleid=296


If the GBE really does come out in 2006, I will be so pissed off. There's no way the DS will get proper support in the game department then. There will be virtually no third party support because they will all be working with the PSP, and the GBE. Seriously, if Nintendo did that, I would never buy another Nintendo product again.

I'm willing to accept the dumb touch screen thing, the smalls size of the screen, the huge design. all I ask for is that Nintendo give it proper support, but if they have the GBE come out within two year of the DS release, we will never see the DS reach it's potential.
 
[quote name='Vampire Hunter D']Yeah but people wont want to buy a new gameboy a year or maybe even two years after they already bought a DS. 3 years is usually the length of the GB cause when you figure the Color came in 98 and the GBA came in 01 and DS 04.[/quote]

People said the exact same thing about the SP. SP sales have been brisk.
 
[quote name='JSweeney'][quote name='Vampire Hunter D']Yeah but people wont want to buy a new gameboy a year or maybe even two years after they already bought a DS. 3 years is usually the length of the GB cause when you figure the Color came in 98 and the GBA came in 01 and DS 04.[/quote]

People said the exact same thing about the SP. SP sales have been brisk.[/quote]

Yea, I remember reading the complaints...but after seeing one, I forgot about the cash that I shelled out on the GBA. And picked up the SP my only gripes are that my regular gba has not been touched since my sp...and with the sp fighting games for me became harder to control.
 
[quote name='Theenternal'][quote name='JSweeney'][quote name='Vampire Hunter D']Yeah but people wont want to buy a new gameboy a year or maybe even two years after they already bought a DS. 3 years is usually the length of the GB cause when you figure the Color came in 98 and the GBA came in 01 and DS 04.[/quote]

People said the exact same thing about the SP. SP sales have been brisk.[/quote]

Yea, I remember reading the complaints...but after seeing one, I forgot about the cash that I shelled out on the GBA. And picked up the SP my only gripes are that my regular gba has not been touched since my sp...and with the sp fighting games for me became harder to control.[/quote]


You guys are forgetting that the GBA sp played the same games, but the new GBE will be making your DS games obsolete if you trade in your DS for it.
 
The Gameboy name is most definitely not dead, but the GBA will be in about a year. Well, more accurately, Nintendo will keep making GBA systems, and there's a whole host of games already available for it, but the number of new games, especially top-notch games, is going to dwindle significantly. Christmas 2005 is probably going to be the final batch of quality games for GBA, with maybe a few that miss their Christmas release date hitting shelves in February/March. After that, there'll be pretty much nothing but GBA videos, Mario Teaches ABCs, etc.

There's really nothing wrong with this, IMO. The GBA has has a long, productive lifespan. Now its just being replaced by something newer and more powerful. That's just the way it works.

The DS doesn't carry the Gameboy name because Nintendo intended it to be a risky/innovative system. There was an excellent chance it would fail horribly, and Nintendo didn't want to risk the good Gameboy name on a possible flop. If it would have flopped, I'm sure Nintendo would have rushed the next Gameboy system to market (with the still-intact Gameboy name) by mid-2006 to compete with the PSP.

Because the DS is a bona-fide hit at this point, it gives Nintendo some breathing room. The PSP will take a good chunk of their marketshare, that's a given, but the DS will be able to hold its own. I'm willing to bet that Nintendo's plan for the next Gameboy system is going to involve merging the Gameboy and DS lines: in other words, the next Gameboy is going to be the DS2. Nintendo will market it as the merging of 2 quality product lines: From the Gameboy line, they'll bring back backwards compatibility with Gameboy and GB Color games (which I'm quite certain were dropped simply to make it possible to resurrect them.) From the DS, everything else. I would guess mid- to late-2007 for the release. At that point, Nintendo will have a system more powerful than the PSP combined with all the other kewl features of the DS. It'll be fun :)
 
[quote name='Drocket']The Gameboy name is most definitely not dead, but the GBA will be in about a year. Well, more accurately, Nintendo will keep making GBA systems, and there's a whole host of games already available for it, but the number of new games, especially top-notch games, is going to dwindle significantly. Christmas 2005 is probably going to be the final batch of quality games for GBA, with maybe a few that miss their Christmas release date hitting shelves in February/March. After that, there'll be pretty much nothing but GBA videos, Mario Teaches ABCs, etc.

There's really nothing wrong with this, IMO. The GBA has has a long, productive lifespan. Now its just being replaced by something newer and more powerful. That's just the way it works.

The DS doesn't carry the Gameboy name because Nintendo intended it to be a risky/innovative system. There was an excellent chance it would fail horribly, and Nintendo didn't want to risk the good Gameboy name on a possible flop. If it would have flopped, I'm sure Nintendo would have rushed the next Gameboy system to market (with the still-intact Gameboy name) by mid-2006 to compete with the PSP.

Because the DS is a bona-fide hit at this point, it gives Nintendo some breathing room. The PSP will take a good chunk of their marketshare, that's a given, but the DS will be able to hold its own. I'm willing to bet that Nintendo's plan for the next Gameboy system is going to involve merging the Gameboy and DS lines: in other words, the next Gameboy is going to be the DS2. Nintendo will market it as the merging of 2 quality product lines: From the Gameboy line, they'll bring back backwards compatibility with Gameboy and GB Color games (which I'm quite certain were dropped simply to make it possible to resurrect them.) From the DS, everything else. I would guess mid- to late-2007 for the release. At that point, Nintendo will have a system more powerful than the PSP combined with all the other kewl features of the DS. It'll be fun :)[/quote]


You work for Nintendo don't you? Seems like you're forgetting all the money we the gamers will have to drop in this magical world where Nintendo puts out a new console whenever they feel like it. Like I said, if the GBE is out that soon the DS's third party support will be dead. the developers will forget the DS, and work will the GBE and the PSP.
 
[quote name='tyecko']crap I hope GBA doesn't die because I just got mine last winter and I wouldn't want it to be obsolete already.[/quote]


Handhelps become pointless in a very short time, so it will be, but the next GB will play all other GB games before it so it doesn't matter.

I was going to get a GBC about 12-14 months after it was released, and there was already rumours that a new GB was coming out "soon" so I waited.

Just the way the game plays, but the GBA has like 600 titles, of course 550 of them are ports but still a good line up of games for all ages.
 
[quote name='Chris in Cali']You work for Nintendo don't you? Seems like you're forgetting all the money we the gamers will have to drop in this magical world where Nintendo puts out a new console whenever they feel like it. Like I said, if the GBE is out that soon the DS's third party support will be dead. the developers will forget the DS, and work will the GBE and the PSP.[/quote]
Welcome to the world of competition. Trust me, console generations are only going to become shorter and shorter from this point on. Look for the PSP2 shortly after the release of the GBE/DS2. The fact that the systems will be backwards compatible should take most of the sting out of the upgrade, though.
 
If the lifespan of consoles gets any shorter then I'll quit buying them. I'm getting sick of buying new gaming devices pnly for something newer and better to come along and make it obsolete. Developers need to be more worried about making AAA games instead of updating the hardware.
 
GBA support isn't going away any time soon. The installed base is simply too great. Keep in mind that detail that got forgotten in all the stories about DS sales is that the GBA SP sold equally well. This bolsters an already massive platform and the DS also must be regarded as adding to this. A substantial portion of those DS buyers have purchased GBA games and will likely continue doing so after the DS library becomes more fleshed out. There will be those, who are like certain PS2 buyers, that will disdain playing GBA games but the majority don't see it that way.

The GBA will remain a strong platform until a genuine successor appears. The real question is the longterm support for the DS. This shouldn't be an issue if Nintendo does the right things. The next GameBoy should bring serious 3D to the sub-$100 market while the DS continue to represent a premium platform which is lesser in numbers but more likely to be owned by gamers of greater affluence who make their own purchases and don't depend on birthdays, the holidays, and the indulgence of family.

To make this work may mean we'll never see a cheap DS. Rather than letting it fall into GB price territory they'll likely just discontinue it as a more powerful model is brought out to hold the $150 ground. A $50 price difference will always allow for some major features at the high end that won't be found in the then current GB generation.
 
I have to agree the GBA SP is what handheld gaming should have been from the start. I have dreamed about this system since I first picked up a Gameboy. The amount of really great games already available is awesome. I would hate to see it die out quickly now that the DS is here.

I was also amongst the people who believed that 3D gaming might not be so wonderful on a handheld system due to small screen size. I have a DS though now and it looks sharp and it works out better than I thought it would have.

So I do believe that like most older gen systems the SP will die out within a year or so. The big question is what it will make room for? The gameboy elite? Will the new gameboy play all the old GB games? I know the backward compatibility with all Gameboys has made buying the new systems easier. Not that I will be dumping my SP any time soon.

I think the real issue at this point is we are quickly coming upon a point where better graphics will NOT make for better games. I just recently started playing NES Punch-Out again. Yeah it is simple compared to a PS2 game but it is a lot of FUN! I don't have to wait for load times and a bunch of dialouge before I can play. I like that the DS is trying to reach out for that simplicity again. To make something that is fun and not so involved. I know most people are taking in by the flash of new graphics as I am too but the real issue is gameplay and fun.
 
I said it once before, there's not too much differeance between 10 million polygons and 9 million so we are quickly reaching saturation on visual quality. at this point these systems can do what ever they need to in the service of good game design, that seems to be the only thing left to improve on.

The games on GBA are good games for the most part as long as that stays true it will go on.
 
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