SPOnG Report On Next GBA @ E3...

[Matt]

http://spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=8385

We are aware of this here at GCA and are working to see if what SPOnG is reporting is legitimate or if this is their speculation.

[cubeenigma]

man...they need to get their sources right...but i hope they are right..for like once...d00d...:D....they better show the next GB and revo at E3..hopefully in playable form...

[I'mSuperAwesome!]

i thought everyone agreed in the other thread that Sp0ng was stupid? :confused: :confused: :confused:

either way....This would be great if it were true/proven.

[RivenWinner]

yeah, for real. I don't think I've ever heard any positve comments about spong

[BigBroMario]

It'd be remarkable if this proved true, but imo releasing a new GB right after DS is stupid.

This is the kicker though,

Nintendo staffers have confirmed to SPOnG.com that preliminary hardware will be shown both at the firm’s conference and encased alongside the Nintendo Revolution on the showfloor.

Yeah right! :P

[soupysal]

spong. pfft

[Daniel]

Sounding a bit like some other site I know, hhmmm I might refer to this a bit later. Oh and yeah Spong, can't say a hell of alot.

[Spartacus]

SPOnG Report On Next GBA @ E3...... should i read more into this?...........na.

[Mana_Aya]

Bull****!

If there is a new gb its a updated version of gba, like sp, but smaller, not next gen.

The reason nintedods is third pillar is cause gba is way to big to faise out. DS will eventually replease gba when gba is nolonger profitable. My guess is ds 2 will have the gb name. They just didnt wanna call it gbds incase it failed.

[Jeff K-DSA]

Spong is full of crap 9/10 times (as I said in another post elsewhere here.)

Until you see some quoted directly sources named from NOA or NCL speaking of such things and possibly showing off a proto case or demo renders call it a LIE.

Nintendo never loose-lips out info, especially when it could be used with such lead time against them by a competitior. Furthermore there are a ton of dimwits out there who think the damned DS is a 'Gameboy DS' and well... gee. You think they'd be a little pis-sed off if they just had the DS for a bit (or as much as a year) to see it lowballed by a portable Gamecube for $99? It would end up like the Sega of the 90s fiasco with the Genesis +32x +SegaCD +CDX. Bye bye fans, hello angry millions...welcome to debters hell.

[blue rogue]

Honestly, it seems like Spong can't wait for news from E3 so make up their own bull****.

[Rensa]

Nintendo's a corporation. It doesn't make multi-billion-dollar decisions regarding hardware releases, then do a backflip and shun that hardware. Well, maybe in the case of a flop, like the Virtual Boy, but never in the case of something that's done so well as the DS. It just doesn't.

Companies like Nintendo plan their moves years ahead, not weeks - if Nintendo had been going to make the DS a PDA, it would've bundled it with the required software. They can go on about third pilalrs until the cows come home, but releasing another handheld right now would be counterproductive, what with the DS blwoign away all of the sales records.

Whether it'll be shown at E3 I don't know, tho I thin kthat'd be the earliest they'd dare show it. If they did, they'd have to have an exceptional reason, as even the announcement of new hardare will put a damper on DS sales. Better to announce the Revolution this year and the next handheld the year after (if then).

[Link]

I'm not sure that a portable Gamecube would really hurt Nintendo. It would be a miniaturization of currently existing technology, offering the same gameplay options as the current software. However, the DS would offer a different style of playing games, especially with FPS, RTS and the like. Meanwhile, the Revolution would offer better graphics, giving it a more credible position to be hooked up to a TV than the Gamecube, while at the same time providing a new (as well as classic, perhaps) way to play games. That would constitute three pillars, in my mind.

[blue rogue]

^It wouldn't hurt Nintendo, but only if they waited like another year or two to release it.