New Game Boy Advance SP Colour for Australia

GBA

June 11, 2003, 12:36 am EDT
Total comments: 4

No, that headline is not a misprint. You only get one new colour in Australia.

THE GAME BOY® ADVANCE SP RANGE EXPANDS

Australia, Melbourne, June 11th 2003 - Due to the enormous success of the Game Boy® Advance SP launch, Nintendo Australia announces the addition of a new colour. From June 20th, 2003, the Game Boy Advance SP will be available in Onyx (Black) joining the Colbalt (Blue) and Platinum (Silver) units on shelves nation-wide.

After reaching sales of just over two units per minute in the first ninety-two retail hours in Australia, the new addition to the Game Boy® brand has enjoyed world-wide success with sales already over 1 million units in America after less than 10 weeks on sale.

In Australia the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP have achieved combined sales of over 300,000 units of hardware and over 700,000 units of Game Boy Advance software since launching in June 2001. (Figures courtesy Inform).

Since its introduction in 1989, Nintendo's portable Game Boy® line has been responsible for sales of over 150 million units and more than half a billion games worldwide.

Talkback

Infernal MonkeyJune 11, 2003

We're not good enough for the Red one? Bah. Oh well, whatever.

PIACJune 11, 2003

how odd...
a mute point as it is, as i only have 1 tie to begin with

err.. i allready have an SP to begin with, my friend will be cut as he got a cobolt cause of the lack of onyx at launch ^_^

i want a mint green SP

AtmaJune 11, 2003

Personally I'd rather the shiny red one instead of the black one. The black one is kinda bland, and it doesn't really stand out like the red one.

Though I can imagine it having the paint scratching problem that the platinum has.