Tag archive: GBA

When Nintendo decided to drastically cut the price of its 3DS handheld from $250 to $170 in August, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata promised 20 free downloadable games to those who purchased the system at full price. At the end of August, the first 10 games were revealed and they were all NES games. Today, Nintendo Japan has revealed the remaining 10 games and they're all from the Game Boy Advance. This is part of what Nintendo calls the… Read More

The success of the handheld console continues apace this Christmas, with the GBA occupying a comfortable second place behind the PS2 in terms of unit sales in the UK, and showing no sign of the year-on-year sales decline which has afflicted most other consoles. Nintendo is keen to promote the system as an ideal Christmas gift, and expects to bring the total catalogue of software available for the GBA to over 400 titles within the coming… Read More

Nokia's head of entertainment and media, Ilkka Raiskinen, has attacked Nintendo's GBA in today's Dow Jones, accusing the system of failing to appeal to adult demographics, and has revealed some details of the development business model for N-Gage. “GameBoy is for 10-year-olds,” Raiskinen is quoted as saying. “If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a GameBoy out of… Read More

Two key messages were pushed very strongly by all of Nintendo's speakers – namely that although the company acknowledges difficulties and failings of the GameCube to date (president Satoru Iwata began his talk with a surprisingly frank assessment of key challenges and failures of the Cube over the past year), it still has no intention of withdrawing from the console wars, and that it considers connectivity between the Cube and… Read More

The company plans to ship 2 million GBA SP units worldwide by the time the system has launched in all global territories at the end of this month. According to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain, demand for the SP remains high in Japan, and the system could have sold even more units had stock been available. Nintendo is being careful not to reduce the number of units available for its US and European launches – which are both… Read More