I don't heart Nintendo

[F]

But if he's simply expressing his opinion about a piece of hardware, does it matter how good he is at writing? He says that the Micro's screen is crisp, it's lightweight, and it works just fine. He likes the Micro, and he is most definitely not biased towards Nintendo. Hell, he doesn't even own Super Smash Bros.: Melee.

[soundwave]

I think Luc is thinking of their review of the NeoGeo portable. It was quick insulting.

[Weebl]

Nobody's forcing you to go out and buy it. Nintendo makes new handhelds because it works for them...Nintendo is doing what works. Why change?

I was just going to post the same thing. Please, people, don't complain about this. If you think paying $30 extra for a DS is the better deal, then get that, you don't need to criticize Nintendo's business decisions. This Micro will sell, just as the SP has continued to sell all these long years. If you don't see the point in it, then ok, you're entitled to your opinion. But please, some people will like the Micro and be looking forward to buying it. Just because you already have a GBA or an SP doesn't mean everyone does, and those people without ones are the people that Nintendo is trying to sell this to. Anyways, my sermon is over, but don't go Nintendo-bashing just because they're trying to attract more gamers. There've been plenty of Sony remakes of systems in the past as well...(not to mention, remakes of the playstation controller: first with nothing, then with rumble, then with analog sticks)

[wallydawg]

...Sony will not touch them down there...

rofl.

[Conn]

I heart nintendo and they have made new franchises pikmin nintendogs animal crossing.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Pikmin! Never played it, but heard good things.

Animal Crossing isn't new, though- it was originally for the N64 under the name of Animal Forest- hence the blocky graphics.

Nintendogs might not be a series, though. It's sold quite well, and sinc they DID record sounds for cats, it's safe to say there will be another one.

[Lucretius]

Please, people, don't complain about this.

If you think paying $30 extra for a DS is the better deal, then get that, you don't need to criticize Nintendo's business decisions.

This Micro will sell, just as the SP has continued to sell all these long years.

If you don't see the point in it, then ok, you're entitled to your opinion.

But please, some people will like the Micro and be looking forward to buying it.

Just because you already have a GBA or an SP doesn't mean everyone does, and those people without ones are the people that Nintendo is trying to sell this to.

I'm going to take that sentence by sentence.

1. Why? What's wrong with us expressing wed on't like it? Only you're allowed to say you do?

2. Of course we don't. And we don't NEED to buy a GBM or DS. And we don't need to make portables. But we do. I personally have spent a lot of money on this company. I hold it in a special place. I care about their future and WANT to talk about it when they are makeing poor decisions.

3. First off, long years? What long years? That's the problem! They haven't even let enough time pass between the SP and Micro for there tto be any long years! And also, what's your logic there? We proved our point, so prove yours.

4. Ok...then don't read this.

5. Sadly, since they haven't given enought time for new consummers to enter the market (kids...being born and growing up), they won't sell MANY. Of course some are going to but it. I'm not saying that. No one is. I'm say that few are going to buy it and Nintendo better not invest a lot of money in it.

Between the DS and Micro, the DS is a better deal. Considering the time between the Sp and Micro, most people who do buy these already have an SP or GBA.

Weeb, just because you'll blindly follow Nintendo's every whim of production, doesn't mean we all will. Most of us use that little thing called common sense.

[Reaperman@home]

I know this is a silly, off the wall thought, but why doesn't nintendo just buy a next gen handheld and slip it in under the radar. Kind of like Atari pulled buying the Lynx from Epyx (only hopefully without the system sucking as bad)

GPX2 is a prime candidate. Aside from the fact that it was built for piracy . If I recall GP32 had reasonably good protection on its own games, though. It would also help Nintendo cross over into other markets (media players and PDAS) as I don't know how long they can really survive in direct competition with sony, but DS feels like garbage, and as much as I love it, GBM is just another GBA.

[Sparkfist]

Nintendo is making the change if the DS supports things like calandars and other orginization tools that come on PDAs. The problem is that Nintedo is still not growing out of the old habit. In order for that to happen they need to start targeting more product to teens and adults rather then kids.

I dont know if the Revolution is going to fix this, but Nintedo will make more money if they target older audiances. And well I know the Micro is just that targeted to older people its got the same flaws as anything Nintedo released. Too few games are made for teens and adults. I know one thing that will really deture people is that the GBA had carts that played cartoon episodes of Pokemon and KND (damn fine). Nintendo's missing its mark too much and if they dont fix it by 2007 I think they could be in the same situation as Sega was when they released the Dreamcast, giving their last.

And if Nintendo fails there then really making themselves as 3rd party software company is going to be hard. Much harder then Sega.

[Metroid fan]

No nintendo I would have to kill myself but they should release it by 2006 and hopefully not die and then I will say yeah and cheer and be happy.[/i]

[Turbo Tax 1.0]

No nintendo I would have to kill myself but they should release it by 2006 and hopefully not die and then I will say yeah and cheer and be happy.[/i]

same because when and if nintendo dies i will cry because a little peice of me would go with them

[Metroid fan]

Not a little piece of me a large chunk this is melarchy I tell you they can't die.

[madc0w]

that would suck if big n went down. im just wondering, how come nintendo couldnt build in the arm 7 (or whatever the gameboy processor is) into the ds when the could make it so small in the gbm?

[daguuy]

is the arm 7 what plays GBO or GBC games? GBM isn't backwards compatable

[Metroid fan]

Uh yeah the gbm can only play gba games.

[bicostp]

The arm7 is the GBA processor, I believe the previous game boy systems ran off a modified z80.

You would've thought they'd put a software emulator into the GBM's firmware or something...