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5.0 stars
"stop complaining"
Pros: small and portable
Cons: none so far cause it's not even out yet
Summary: honestly people...the DS, PSP, SP, and GBA were all supppose to be "portable" gaming systems. well, were any of them really portable? they're all pretty darn big and i'm sure you wouldn't want to put those so called "portable" systems in your pant pocket daily. nintendo is on the right track. true, it's the same concept as with the GBA and the SP but it's now smaller and more attractive. nintendo will finally tap into the female market with it's attractiveness(my girlfriend does not play games yet she wants a gameboy micro). i dare say that this is one of the first portable gaming system to be truly PORTABLE.
as for everyone else out there who keeps complaining about nintendo remaking the gameboy over and over again here's something to think about. at least when nintendo remakes the gameboy they add enhancement, they make the gameboy better. they give the gameboy a better screen, better backlit, better battery and so on. so many of you are complaining that the gameboy is played out and that nintendo should stop remaking it, yet none of you seem to remember when sony remade the playstation and playstation 2. and if i remmeber correctly, the remakes of both the playstaion and playstation 2 had little to no enhancements to them whatsoever. all they did was make it smaller, yet people still bought into those systems. so for you people out there who keeps bashing the gameboy micro which btw isn't even out on the market yet, stop complaining. and one more note, for those few comments that i've read in regards to how nintendo should ditch the gameboy phase and create something "great" like the PSP...all i can say is, at least with the gameboy you get decent games. just keep in mind that you buy a portable gaming system to play games not to watch movies or listen to mp3's. a system that can do one thing and one thing well is better than a system that can do many things but only at mediocre quality.
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you all think nintendo should drop the gameboy, but seeing as how it is the best selling portable system of all time, they must be doing something right, and seeing as how people keep buying new ones and getting the bigger and better gameboy, i think they are doing a great job. i buy a game system to play games, i buy a mini dvd player to watch dvds, not do each semi-good.
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My biggest problem is how much they're charging for the bloody thing. If they brought it to market under $50 (something that should be possible with tech that's more than 4 years old!), then I'd be the first one in line to buy it. However, they released another rehash and are charging way too much for it. Minimization of old components doesn't cost that much. Hell, the biggest factor in making it smaller is the screen, which they just cut an inch off of anyway.
I still play my SP to this day. I agree that some of the new 'portable' systems are rather hard to lug around, but the SP isn't terribly bad. I love Nintendo and the games they make, but I had a hard enough time coughing up a $100 to get an SP when they pulled this same crap with the original Advance two years ago. Now they want to do it again??
I say good idea, bad price point. You can't hope to get someone to pay $100 for an ancient system when YOUR OWN COMPANY offers a more advanced alternative for $30 more. The Micro is just Nintendo trying to generate cash by selling you the same garbage in a different box. And no, I'm not a Sony fanboy; I hate them with a passion. I just hate it even more when someone sells something that costs nothing to produce and charges way more than market value for it.
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