nintendo... ¿que hiciste con mi querida licensia de star tropics?

Para UBI soft faltan un par de licencias aun... Los G. Recon y Rainbow ademas del Splinter Cell.

Fuente: http://ds.ign.com/mail/2005-01-24.html?fromint=1

[quote]With all this DS and Revolution talk, no-one is talking about something else I know lot's of us are rooting for. It's the successor to the GBA. Don't forget that the DS is the THIRD pillar Nintendo introduced to it's gaming platforms. And since the Gamecube is soon to retire, how about the GBA? Has Nintendo disclosed anything about this? Are there any known plans at all? Or should we wait and see at E3 2005?

Cris Konert

Actually, Matt over on the IGN Cube channel sort of opened up that can of worms last week in his mailbag. See, since there's really nothing interesting happening on that system until Zelda, he feels the need to encroach on my territory. The bastard.

So, yes, there's been talk of the next generation Game Boy, which shouldn't be surprising considering that even when the Nintendo DS was revealed, Nintendo has always stood by the statement that the DS wasn't the next Game Boy, and that work was continuing on the future of the Game Boy line. Matt seems to feel that the next Game Boy system, strongly hinted for an announcement at this year's E3 show, will be a portable GameCube. My theory is a little closer to reality: it will most likely use GameCube technology, but it won't play GameCube games. The graphics chipset and hardware, still pretty damn impressive, will, if we've been hearing the rumors correctly, be shrunk down and be made power conservative, which would certainly bring the Game Boy branding in line with what Sony's pushing with the PSP.

But why am I saying it won't it play GameCube games? Well, first of all, games for the GameCube weren't made with conservation in mind. Many titles constantly read the disc for data, and that motor would cause a severe drain on the power of the unit, something Sony's frowning upon in the world of the PSP. Two is multiplayer: In Super Smash Bros. Melee, how do you get four systems to talk to each other wirelessly in a way that will "trick" the software into thinking it's playing off one unit with four controllers? It may be technically possible knowing the hardware skills of Nintendo engineers, but I'd guess that they'd leave something like this out of the realm of possibility.

But on the positive side, if Nintendo goes the way of using GameCube technology for its next system, much of what developers have created engine-wise can potentially be moved to the handheld with very little cost. And the GameCube has already proven itself worthy enough to emulate hardware as powerful as a Nintendo 64 (think Ocarina of Time) which makes it a bit more feasible for Nintendo to revive existing properties on the Game Boy "Evolution" (or whatever they're going to call it) for low cost game software. And, of course, it enables Nintendo to re-issue existing GameCube games as upgraded "remixes," much like what the company has already done with Super NES titles on the Game Boy Advance.

Yes, this is the more likely of the two scenarios.

-- Craig

Game Boy Evolution GBevo
Nintendo DS DS
Nintendo Revolution Nrevolution

e3 2005 = Nintendo's Show

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