Poll - What hardware will Nintendo release next?
Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 12:28pm by David
DS and Wii sales are strong and a lot of great titles are on the release schedule. Even as the DS Lite and Wii were released, rumors began circulating about the next-next-gen from Nintendo. Will the DS replace the GameBoy line? Will Nintendo keep up their roof with a third pillar? Is there yet another home console on the horizon?
This week, we want to know:
What hardware will Nintendo release next?
If you think the Big N is up to something completely different, let us know in comments.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
i voted for a new ds, because that seems the most likely, but in reality, there should have been another poll option that reads “nothing for at least 2 years”.
nintendo is riding a major wave of momentum right now, and releasing any new hardware anytime soon is a major mistake. the ds is hot. like, white hot. POLAR WHITE HOT. and the wii is hot too. you don’t worry about replacing a system that is on par to be the most successful handheld ever released.
the ds has at least another YEAR of it’s life before nintendo should even begin to brainstorm. any planning at this stage is premature.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I think we’ll get something that combines the DS and Gameboy lines, a GameboyDS or something, that will be like a DS2 with a bigger screen and close to Gamecube graphics, but a download service for all the old Gameboy games up to GBA. It may even still take GBA carts. The oldschool will call it a Gameboy, the newschool will call it the DS2, and Nintendo will call it “Ca-Ching!” because it will print money.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Can someone please inform me as to why the Gameboy coexists with the DS? Why is there a market for both? I own a DS, but not a Gameboy, and it seems to me that both are for portable gaming, so there should be only one.
What does the Gameboy do that supports its existence? What makes it so different that it can exist alongside the DS?
May 21st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
A portable Wii? =D
May 21st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Another GameBoy for sure, Nintendo wouldn’t just let a great name that is still synonymous with handheld gaming die. It still has a market Kevin; sure, right now it hasn’t got much of a market what with it being overshadowed and outdated by the DS but the market for a Nintendo hardcore ‘pure’ handheld gaming machine is still there [A Nintendo PSP would have a market for sure].
I can’t see any convergence of DS and GB they are at nature distinctly different. And a new DS at this time (except new colors) would be more harmful than good.
Another Wii? No. They can’t get enough of these MarkI systems out yet so there is no market for a Wii2 or anything similar. Although a DVD capable Wii isn’t a complete write-off.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Game Boy is two words people!
I say a new DS/PSP-like thing, Christmas 2008.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I love my DS but it isn’t super-portable. I carry my GBA Micro at all times for those odd moments. I am wondering if Nintendo will release either a GBA replacement - very small, or something integrated with a cellphone - again a carry-everywhere device.
The Nokia N-gage failed, but Nintendo could make something really worth having!
However this would be a radical break for the big N. I suspect an ultra-thin Game Boy with new control gimmick(s).
May 21st, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I feel that the Gameboy is being slowly phased out. The Micro is their phase-out system, just like the redesigned NES, SNES, and GCN (component taken out) were made to lower production costs at the end of their life cycles.
I mean c’mon, the latest Gameboy has a smaller screen and can’t play original (type I) and GBC (type II) cartridges since Nintendo did not put in the Hitachi Z-80-something CPU. The last true Gameboy was the Gameboy Player on the ‘Cube.
Speaking of phase-out systems, as I like to call it, did the N64 have one? I might be wrong, but I don’t think they ever did a phase-out system for the 64.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I don’t think that there will be another Game Boy. The DS has backwards compatibility with GBA for the same reason that Wii has backward compatabillity with GCN. Are we asking if we are going to see Wii 2 or ‘Cube 2? The Game Boy has been replaced by the DS Line Just as the Cube has by the Wii.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
@Kevin
“Can someone please inform me as to why the Gameboy coexists with the DS?”
This is the same phenomenon that is showing up in the PS2 leading PS3 sales and God of War II outselling all PS3 games combined. When you have an installed base in the tens of millions, you don’t just switch it off. The GB is dead for sure, but it will die out slowly, just like the PS2 is. You will probably see the death accelerate now, quite a bit since the DS sales and installed base have jumped so dramatically in the last 6-9 months.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
gameboy brand will die, period. nintendo had that 3 pillar system only for the first year of DS when they were unsure what would happen. not DS is looking to even surpass Gameboy as the dominate name in gaming, and its phasing in just fine. nintendo announced last year that with the success of the DS, gameboy is not necessary, and its true, gameboy doesnt do anything that ds cant do, and the micro has its limits in how powerful it can get and with what options, it splits developer time/resources that only hurt us gamers. who wants to have to buy 2 portables anyways, somebody but not me. DS is plenty portable too. it fits in sacks, some pockets, its the best that needs to be done to me.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I think the Game Boy line is dead and has been replaced by the DS. To me there’s no reason to have a seperate GB line. The DS plays GBA games, so now there’s no reason to have a GBA (though you can’t play GBC or GB games, but only the hardcore likely still play those anyway). If a developer wants to make a more traditional handheld game, then there’s nothing stopping them. You don’t HAVE to make every game utilize the touch screen.
So if anything, I see the next DS, but even then, not for a good while.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for all the GameBoy/DS replies. So really the GameBoy doesn’t have any compelling features that the DS doesn’t have. I don’t see why Nintendo would bother creating an updated GameBoy since that’s covered already by the DS. We’ll see a DS2 before a new Wii or anything else.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I honestly think they may go a completely separate path with the Gameboy line IF they still want to support their 3rd pillar.
If you think hard on it though, while I’m sure they’re working on improving the DS, it’ll be quite a few years till we hear of a new one as the redesign has given it quite a long lifetime and there’s no signs of this slowing down.
Not to mention the Wii and DS are integrated, a new GB would be like a 3rd wheel on a bike: useless (unless you got a flat… but that’s not the point, ok so it’s a bad analogy :P)
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:20 am
Dual touch-screens and a tilt sensor, with cube-capable graphics.
BAM! DS2.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 am
i don’t see why they can’t have a next-gen game boy for their 3rd pillar. if you look at the game cube discs, they’re perfect for a new portable. why not a portable game cube? the power of the game cube in portable form. the new game cube boy?? sounds feasible to me. but people are right, there is an issue here. something like a game cube boy might be in direct competition with DS. any thoughts?
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:16 am
i would say the DS is not a subtitud from the GBA
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:06 am
I think Nintendo will come out with a new GB with a larger screen, higher-res with a stronger gpu and a faster cpu and will use the smaller SD cards instead of a cart. that will hold up too 2 to 4 gigs of data for longer and bigger games and a disc slot on the bottom for backwards Game Cube games and hopefully some kind of internal flash memory or a hard drive to download games like some sort of VC of GB games , oh and yes let it be the first handheld to come with two analog sticks..
Again the DS is not an extention from the GBA is just another line of Nintendos product..
Its like Toyota, the CAMRY is not an extention of the Corolla its just another line of the Toyota company.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I think Nintendo’s next move will probably be some sort of hardware update to the Wii. It’s no secret that the Wii’s hardware is inferior to its competitors, but they’ve been able to get by on ingenuity, and first party power. Microsoft has always been inferior competition, but the PS3 has some big guns behind it. Once the ball really gets rolling on Sony’s end, I have a feeling Nintendo is going to up the ante with some comparable hardware. As far as the handhelds go, I’d love to see a Gamecube quality handheld on the market, or even a DS that can play my old gameboy games, but I really don’t believe that that’s a lucrative direction for them. Nintendo has been great about keeping the GB library alive. But I think it’s almost over. Once the GBA phases out, it’ll be all DS. We may eventually enter the age of downloadable content for the DS.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
BTW? A Handheld that can play GC games? That would be a coup for Nintendo. A new handheld with a fair amount of processing power, complete with a game lineup already in the thousands at launch? If they can get that off the ground, they would be unstoppable.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Wii DVD player.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
lol at the tards who think they’ll release something that combines the DS and the GBA.
The DS has a GBA slot on it. Wish granted.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 am
It’s simple!!
A portable with two oled touch display and nand disk.
greez
=puppetmaster=
May 25th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Popular Science (the magazine I read) just released info on a foldable PDA-type thing that has a foldable screen. I think the sequel to whatever portable they make, should be foldable, so it would satisfy the people who enjoy the micro.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Well I’m not sure about new systems but I do know this. What about new 2d games. You mostly see them on the gb systems right? If gb dies of course 2d games will go for the ds but critics like ign will always look for more on these games all because the ds can do more. For the internet the 2d games there kinda suck. For how about bring in the 2d goodness.