CNN: Nintendo dismisses Sony Game Boy rival

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Haha no way Sony will be able to beat Nintendo from the number one spot. I will never buy a handheld game unless it's from Nintendo.

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Both Sony and Microsoft announced major hardware upgrades to their consoles this week, but Nintendo instead focused its efforts on new gaming titles and "connectivity" between the Game Boy and GameCube.

Aiming to bolster the console's sales, Nintendo showed a number of new games at its news conference, including a revival of the arcade classic Pac Man, a multi-player affair that will let one player act as the little yellow pellet-muncher and three other players serve as the ghosts that chase him.

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Nintendo's hugely popular Mario Brothers games, previewed an upcoming version of the Legend of Zelda series that will let four Game Boy players interact in the same Zelda game using their own screens as well as with a GameCube console hooked up to a TV.


ha ha ha.....yep leave it to nintendo to continue to churn out remake after remake of the same old games thru the years and call it inovation........lol

they make me giggle :)

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Originally posted by CgMonkey
Haha no way Sony will be able to beat Nintendo from the number one spot. I will never buy a handheld game unless it's from Nintendo.

Thats what I thought also before the playstation came out and crushed the big N

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Originally posted by CgMonkey
Haha no way Sony will be able to beat Nintendo from the number one spot. I will never buy a handheld game unless it's from Nintendo.

that sentiment will last exactly until the moment you see something you really want on the PSP.

This is basically exactly how nintendo landed in the #3 slot.

However, I would never expect a company to have a press release saying "OH my god, what will we do, we're SOOOOOOO screwed!!!" PSP is targeted for late 2004, and based on the feature list will break the $99 pricing nintendo has decided (and seemingly with some merit) is the sweet spot. But sony rewrote the formula before. so, we'll see.

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"This is basically exactly how nintendo landed in the #3 slot."

and year after year have the best games around.

the only way Sony is to make this PSP work, is if they aim it at the 15-30 crowd as a palm pilot type of thing. if could keep a calender, listen to mp3s, and pay games on it, i'm sold.

also think from the developer's point of view. who's going to sink the cost of making good soild games for this? nintendo has a hard enough time getting people onboard of the GBA [and there is something like 15 billion game boys out there...jk]. the only types of gamers the GBA reaches out to are kids and hardcore gamers who like old 16-bit games and RPGs and. if Sony markets this thing for $200+ dollars, with 3D racing, fighting, action games, i don't see a bright future.

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