Topic: Another new gameboy in the near future

[sheik124]

i don't know who recommended it, but i agree with whoever said it, nintendo should go with some type of memory stick, preferrably an SD card
although at first i hoped it'd be something like Nintendo Pocket 64, plays all old 64 games! go zeldaot! but that would fail horribly when put up to PSP.
and for all of you bugging about some pseudo-mini gamecube gadget, there is probably no way nintedo can keep the price under 100 USD, give you a durable system like GB, GBP (i have my GBP since '98 and its fine, fallen at least 57 times), GBC, and GBA (i find GBA SP to be flimsy in design), and give it hw like the gc's, and doing away with the fans is impossible, because it would probably melt, unless they used some water or thermal cooling, kicking the price up 100 bucks or so

[Cap]

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Originally posted by: sheik124
i don't know who recommended it, but i agree with whoever said it, nintendo should go with some type of memory stick, preferrably an SD card
although at first i hoped it'd be something like Nintendo Pocket 64, plays all old 64 games! go zeldaot! but that would fail horribly when put up to PSP.
and for all of you bugging about some pseudo-mini gamecube gadget, there is probably no way nintedo can keep the price under 100 USD, give you a durable system like GB, GBP (i have my GBP since '98 and its fine, fallen at least 57 times), GBC, and GBA (i find GBA SP to be flimsy in design), and give it hw like the gc's, and doing away with the fans is impossible, because it would probably melt, unless they used some water or thermal cooling, kicking the price up 100 bucks or so

i realize that nintendo would have to find a way to cool the system, and that they might have to take a hit on the hardware costs and mentioned both in my previous posts. as i said, i dont think nintendo is going to have a new handheld releasing at the same time as the psp, i expect it to launch about a year later. that gives nintendo plenty of time to work out the battery and cooling issues, along with giving time for the gc's parts and components to come down in price. i'm pretty much positive that it could be done, i think it really comes down to how badly nintendo wants to compete.  

[MattVDB]

Nintendo could move to disks on their new system, and keep carts attached.  If they made a proprietary memory card in the same shape as the current carts, they could have both.  By shipping a disk with the game and an adapter with the handheld, then the disk could be put on the memory card without need to lug around the card.  By shipping only one large memory card, costs would be reduced.  More could be put on sale, but instead of paying for it EVERY time, just buy it once, and load the game you want to play.

Piracy could be a big issue, but this is Nintendo.  They have yet to be cracked in the console race, and I am sure they could do the same again.  Not like the GBA doesn't already have tons of pirates....