Wow, lots to reply to. Time to get to it:
TShirts:- The system is deriving off of games(most of them) that are rehashes of prior SNES titles.
I can\'t stress this enough: Never judge a system by it\'s launch. If I had to judge the Dreamcast by it\'s Japanese launch, I never would have bought one, but as 2 years have quickly come and gone, the system has certainly gained my utmost respect. Maybe the GBA will do the same for you in just a little bit of time.
- No backlight is a big deal to me considering almost every system prior to this one has had one and every Sega system does have it. Again, the whole battery issue could of easily been resolved with the use of Lithiums and/or an advance battery pack and not age old double As.
I am totally forced to agree with this. If you keep the wormlight in 24/7 whenever you use the GBA, you are pulling the same amount of power from the AA\'s as if you were to have it backlit anyways. Nintendo can see that most people are investing in a wormlight anyways, but I fail to see why Nintendo didn\'t try and pull that money for itself from consumers by just designing a more costly second version.
P.S. I seriously think Nintendo could lose the portable war if a company as big as Sony or Microsoft decides to come in and take it. They could use that new graphics chip (as powerful as the DC) and have Square develope exclusively(since Nintendo won\'t let them on the GBA) for them. A 3D handheld system on the level of a DC will definitely be a lot more enticing than an age-old 2D game system that looks just like my SNES.
So far, there really isn\'t a handheld war at all. There\'s just a dictator running the world with its handhelds basically and Squaresoft just isn\'t enough to make a system really successful. Example: Wonderswan Color.
As for the comment about a 3D handhelds being more successful, it all depends on the games and the developer support. If Sony or MS dumped all this technology into a new handheld and actually came out with a screen that effectively displayed all this information, would the Japanese people and the American people buy it? The main reason why people love gaming consoles nowadays is because of their versatility and how much they can effect how great the game is. A huge TV and an awesome sound system can go a long way in emphasizing the greatness of a game. The question is, would a game like Madden or GT2 or MGS translate that well over to a handheld and small screen as 2D games have already proven to do?
Jumpman:My only complaint about the GBA is the colour of them. I hate all of them, they look ridiculous. I wish Nintendo could of usen the GBA colours they had a Spaceworld. They were sweet. Take a look.
Damn right. I agree completely!
Ogodlything:Maybe I am asking too much, but I\'m the kind of guy who expecs nothing but the best in Technology
Then to you, price is no object I gather.
Datamage:I\'m sorry to see all these \'3D whores\' on here. I love my 20 mpps running @ 60fps with FSAA, anisotropic filtering, bump mapping, and using 1024x1024 size textures, but would I like to see that on a 3" screen? Hell no.
Again I ask, was the Saturn/PSX/N64 your first console? Have you forgotten 2D gaming? If you can\'t appreciate 2D goodness, well, too bad.
Truer words have never been spoken. I\'m sure a high majority of posters on this board didn\'t start gaming until the 32-bit age and that\'s just unfortunate.
We\'re a dying breed, Data.
