Can the market surrport 3 handhelds?

[17R3W]

Nintendo wants to introduce a new Gameboy (evolution) to compete with the PSP, while still developing unquie DS games.

Is this the best idea?

[Hyjinks]

As long as non of the attention is diverted for developing the DS I think its ok for Nintendo to keep working on their secret lil projects :)

[Mustangfreak]

You would think the DS competes with the PSP.

[Hyjinks]

It will for the moment, but this is probably Nintendo's way of keeping support for their products until they can totally dominate the Handheld marked by releasing a product far superior to the PSP eg: (GB Evolution) EDIT: That's my conspiracy theory for the day, weeeeeeeee :D !

[chuddy_2001uk]

And what exactly is this GB evolution?

[x999x]

Originally Posted by 17R3W

Nintendo wants to introduce a new Gameboy (evolution) to compete with the PSP, while still developing unquie DS games.

Is this the best idea?

When the GBE is released, there's a number of avenues Ninty can push the DS so segway into the GBE without hurting either market. Some of these possibilities is turning the DS into more of an appliance as time goes on, this will be accomplished via the DS Option paks, aka GBA carts.

Another might be full cohesiveness with the Revolution than the GBA had with the GC, and revert it to more of a addon or accessory you can't do without.

As for the GBE, I suspect it will be relegated to games only. It's niche will be graphics comparable to current gen consoles, and not offer system links with the revolution.

[NinTen1]

If the news about the Gameboy Evolution is true, then.......Quick! somebody buy this domain name: www.Gameboyevolution.com, before Nintendo does. Maybe then they'll buy it off you for thousands! :D
Actually onetime I visited nintendods.com and it was for sale! I was close to buying it but Nintendo beat me to it.
Anyway back on topic. I think it's way to early to release this system, because they just released the DS and it would confuse some gamers out there. Plus they wouldn't be able to concentrate on making good games for the DS. The only way that this would be a good idea, was if it was released sometime in late 2007, because with the Revolution being released it would be too much. Nintendo has to slow down.

[x999x]

Hey Ninten1- I understand your worry about Nintendo not having enough time to dev for the GBE if it's released early, but incase you haven't noticed already, some of Nintendo's biggest franchises have been developed by other companies lately, primarily because Ninty is just so busy like you say.

Here are some of the Franchises that Nintendo have had other companies develop for their systems:

The Legend of Zelda: The minish cap and the two previous titles were handled by Capcom thanks to the agreement between Mikami and Miyamoto.

F-Zero: The gamecube version was developed by AM3, the same people responsible for Daytona, Sega Rally, and Sega GT.

Starfox: Starfox Assault is being developed by Namco, the same company that inroduced the world to pattern attack shooters with Galaga. Galaga fans are fans for life, that's how good the game is to this day.

I'm sure there are more titles which are devved by other companies, but most of those are owned by Nintendo, like RetroStudios, HAL, and Nintendo Software Technologies.

So as you can see, you have nothing to be worried about, because each game Ninty outsources is guaranteed to stand up to their highest standards.

[Fatvod]

And what is the evolution?????

[Sepharite]

Okay, it hasn't been annouced, people, so calm down. This is a rhetorical question =)

Hard to image GBE to be better/worse in anyway than the PSP... other than graphics maybe. But the DS revolutionizes gaming.