They tried to claim that they weren’t ending the game boy line…welp. Still waiting on that Game Boy Advance sucsessor any day now…
We all know the DS was the next Game Boy. WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST CALL IT THAT??? The original ones even played GBA, GBC, and GB games for fucks sake!
The DS WAS a Game Boy. That’s it. That’s the end of the story.
It’s been 20 years dude, just let it go you’ll feel better
NINTENDO SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO BUY RARE, AND I’M STILL NOT OK WITH IT!!!
Also…has anyone seen the 5th Jiggy piece? I’m looking for the 5th Jiggy piece!
Girls started playing games around 2004
Did you lose a bet over this or something?
no ds can play gb or gbc carts
This is incorrect. The original DS could not play GB or GBC games. It could only play GBA games. Also, the last system with Game Boy in the name was the Game Boy Micro, which was released after the DS. I don’t think it’s deserving of the name Game Boy either though since every other system with that name could play original GB games.
Switch is also Game Boy
So is the Steam Deck
I can see the logic behind switch, but I’d argue game boy is a portable only system. Whereas the switch is a hybrid.
I have no idea what your logic is with steamdeck.
Super Game Boy was 0% portable and 100% Game Boy.
It’s portable, so it’s a Game Boy.
Seeing how the Wii U failed, partially cause people thought it was just a Wii. They probably made the right call.
The DS exists because of the PSP. It was Nintendo acknowledging they couldn’t just be the too-cheap-not-to-own, baseline-sufficient, mobile gaming experience. The PSP did 3D shit on a level the GBA simply could not compete with, even when the SP was like $70 new. Sony came out the gate with PS2 graphics, in your damn pocket.
So - Nintendo got weird. They are a toy company. They do not compete. They want to be the only company that offers [blank]. And in the DS’s case, that was a ridiculous two-screen setup, hearkening back to the Game & Watch days, but modernized enough to have a touchscreen… and goofy scanline-rendered 3D that basically guaranteed 60 Hz performance. The restrictions for that are why DS ports were still kinda wacky.
What’ll really blow people’s dicks off is that Nintendo nearly called it the City Boy. After a now-obscure Japanese fashion magazine that was, I shit you not, probably the reason Mario wears a red shirt and blue overalls.
Fits in hand? Game boy idc what it’s really called, I use it like the generic kleenex lol
