European GB Micro price and date revealed

[TomO]

Nintendo has announced (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1299/) today that the Game Boy Micro will launch in Europe on November 4th, retailing at £69.

The new incarnation of the GBA, no doubt to be a favourite this Christmas, will be available in four colours at launch: Silver, Green, Blue and Pink. The Micro measures only 4 inches wide, two inches tall and 0.7 inches deep. Despite its tiny size the Micro packs the same processing power as the GBA and can play all existing GBA titles.

Check out a hands-on preview and video of the Game Boy Micro here (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/features/fid/51/).

Nintendo has revealed that the Game Boy Micro will be released in the US on September 17th.

[bKangy]

Sony loses handheld "war" in Europe! Coming many months after the DS, and just 1 month before another Game Boy that's priced several hundred £ cheaper in the build up to the big winter season! What exactly do you have going for you, Sony?

[amusedtoe]

Why on earth do we even need this thing? :confused: I wouldn't buy a third GBA, I'm tired of buying the same Nintendo product over and over. Besides that thing would disapeer the first time I set it down.

[Xaerin]

Why would you want an even smaller screen than the sp or pay £70 for old technology when you can get a DS for £100? The answer to all of the questions can only be one thing: Midgets.

[holysin]

o_O I thought it'd be a lot cheaper...
heh, all I need right now is a gba emulator on my psp :P

[jacktion]

I don't really speak British. Just to get a perspective, how much does a GBA sp go for over there? And the official DS price? But this does seem too expensive.

[Kefkataran]

Why on earth do we even need this thing? I wouldn't buy a third GBA, I'm tired of buying the same Nintendo product over and over.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's not for people who already own a GBA, unless they happen to have a ton of money and want to look trendy or whatever, I guess. But I'd say this is in most ways aimed towards people who don't already have one. What excuse could you have to not own one now , with it at this extremely cheap price?

[Xaerin]

I don't really speak British. Just to get a perspective, how much does a GBA sp go for over there? And the official DS price? But this does seem too expensive.

The SP is the same price as this Micro will sell for. I don't own a GBA yet but if I was going to buy one I'd probably go for the SP, I just like it better. Watching the video the micro looks so small that it's awkward to actually use.

[divinechaos]

There are also rumors that the Micro will come bundled with the Play-Yan when it launches in the U.S. I own a DS, but i'll buy this thing just for the hell of it, or mayb cause i want Sony to lose the handheld war so bad.

[Kefkataran]

I own a DS and just got a GBA recently (courtesy of Perigon, as it were) simply because I have some old original Gameboy games that I'd liket o play a bit of without using the Gameboy Player on the Gamecube.

[amusedtoe]

I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's not for people who already own a GBA, unless they happen to have a ton of money and want to look trendy or whatever, I guess. But I'd say this is in most ways aimed towards people who don't already have one. What excuse could you have to not own one now , with it at this extremely cheap price?

And realistically how many people is that? Aren't the vast majority of people who would buy a GBA at this point already owners of at least one, or going to go with the PSP or DS? Obviously the diehards will eat this up but they're fanboys so they don't count. Plus what do you think Nintendo is going to do with the SP now? They have two options; they drop the price on the SP, which needs to be done even more in light of the DS price drop, or they leave the SP alone which is an immediate death sentence on it. If they do drop the price which version will those few people without a GBA going to choose? The one that's new and more expensive, or the one that's functionally the exact same, still looks good, has a bigger screen, isn't that much bigger, and is cheaper?!? Pile on the fact that no one is bothering to support the GBA by the time this thing acctually comes out, aside from licensed games which is the same difference, and the vast majority of the GBA's best games are hard to find since they're long out of print. If you realize this are you really going to want to put down your hard earned, or begged from parents, money and get a system Nintendo's simply milking now? Two years down the road I don't want the GBA to still be front and center while we wait on five new games each year, all the while the next system having been ready for years and being held back until it's not nearly as impressive (ala GBA being ready two years before launch).

Nintendo is the senile old man of the industry now and should be put in a home with Atari and 3DO. I'd go as far to say that they're verging on Atari territory in the way they saturate the handheld market with the same system three or four times a generation. Not to mention in other countries they're also still (or until very recently) pushing the GBC. Considering they're up against the Sony behemoth they should be focusing their attention on the DS or a GameBoy that's acctually something new. Instead they're fighting with themselves for their own marketshare instead of trying to reclaim it from Sony. Nintendo's not about new and revolutionary games and ideas, they're about the past that's moved on without them.

Besides you're going to need hands like a Chinese school girl to play that thing.

[divinechaos]

And realistically how many people is that? Aren't the vast majority of people who would buy a GBA at this point already owners of at least one, or going to go with the PSP or DS? Obviously the diehards will eat this up but they're fanboys so they don't count. Plus what do you think Nintendo is going to do with the SP now? They have two options; they drop the price on the SP, which needs to be done even more in light of the DS price drop, or they leave the SP alone which is an immediate death sentence on it. If they do drop the price which version will those few people without a GBA going to choose? The one that's new and more expensive, or the one that's functionally the exact same, still looks good, has a bigger screen, isn't that much bigger, and is cheaper?!? Pile on the fact that no one is bothering to support the GBA by the time this thing acctually comes out, aside from licensed games which is the same difference, and the vast majority of the GBA's best games are hard to find since they're long out of print. If you realize this are you really going to want to put down your hard earned, or begged from parents, money and get a system Nintendo's simply milking now? Two years down the road I don't want the GBA to still be front and center while we wait on five new games each year, all the while the next system having been ready for years and being held back until it's not nearly as impressive (ala GBA being ready two years before launch).

Nintendo is the senile old man of the industry now and should be put in a home with Atari and 3DO. I'd go as far to say that they're verging on Atari territory in the way they saturate the handheld market with the same system three or four times a generation. Not to mention in other countries they're also still (or until very recently) pushing the GBC. Considering they're up against the Sony behemoth they should be focusing their attention on the DS or a GameBoy that's acctually something new. Instead they're fighting with themselves for their own marketshare instead of trying to reclaim it from Sony. Nintendo's not about new and revolutionary games and ideas, they're about the past that's moved on without them.

Besides you're going to need hands like a Chinese school girl to play that thing.

Wow, xcuse moi, but did u just say that Nintendo isnt about revolutionary games and ideas?
First of all, they havent forgotten about the DS, did u see how many first party games Nintendo is putting out for the DS?
And what do u mean "trying to reclaim it from sony"? Nintendo is OWNING the crap out of sony when it comes to the handheld market.
Nintendo isnt making any revolutionary changes? As opposed to the other companies that are making touch sensitive controls, putting mics in their handhelds and the ability to play the games u grew up with in 1 system?

[amusedtoe]

So by continuing to push a 4 year old system, that is acctually a system that's over a decade old, they're being revolutionary? The biggest feature we've seen from the Revolution so far is the ability to play old games. It's a good idea that finally takes digital content delivery to the next level but it's hardly new.

Fine they haven't totally fogotten the DS but why did it take them most of a year before it was finally supported with any real games. No Nintendo 64 rehases don't count. They had months to put Sony away by building a strong library around the system and delivering at least one killer app. Instead they let Sony take market share. Yes Sony took it, that's what happens when one companies proliferation in a market rises, and likely would have taken more if they didn't fall short with their own ineptness. I love my GBA but the only reason Nintendo still sits on top of the handheld market is because since the GB came out they've almost never held less then 80%. You reset it launch the DS and PSP again with things playing out the same way and things are going to be split pretty evenly. Why are they still trying to beat the PSP with the GBA? It may as well be the N64 against the PS2.

If anyone watched Nintendo's E3 address it's obvious why they've fallen to third in the console race. Everything Reggie said about why the company's on the upswing was because we've sold X amount of games since the NES, we've sold X amount of GameBoy's all time, we've done X this and X that. None of which has any real bearing on the market today, but almost sinfully didn't give us a single thing about where the company's going. You're talking about your future and your next console but you can't even give us a reason why we should feel confident things are going in the right direction? The buisness side of Nintendo is simply entrenched in the past.

Oh and before you accuse me of being pro Sony and anti Nintendo far from it. I've owned more Nintendo systems then any other and play my SP everyday during my lunch break.

[divinechaos]

So by continuing to push a 4 year old system, that is acctually a system that's over a decade old, they're being revolutionary? The biggest feature we've seen from the Revolution so far is the ability to play old games. It's a good idea that finally takes digital content delivery to the next level but it's hardly new.

Fine they haven't totally fogotten the DS but why did it take them most of a year before it was finally supported with any real games. No Nintendo 64 rehases don't count. They had months to put Sony away by building a strong library around the system and delivering at least one killer app. Instead they let Sony take market share. Yes Sony took it, that's what happens when one companies proliferation in a market rises, and likely would have taken more if they didn't fall short with their own ineptness. I love my GBA but the only reason Nintendo still sits on top of the handheld market is because since the GB came out they've almost never held less then 80%. You reset it launch the DS and PSP again with things playing out the same way and things are going to be split pretty evenly. Why are they still trying to beat the PSP with the GBA? It may as well be the N64 against the PS2.

If anyone watched Nintendo's E3 address it's obvious why they've fallen to third in the console race. Everything Reggie said about why the company's on the upswing was because we've sold X amount of games since the NES, we've sold X amount of GameBoy's all time, we've done X this and X that. None of which has any real bearing on the market today, but almost sinfully didn't give us a single thing about where the company's going. You're talking about your future and your next console but you can't even give us a reason why we should feel confident things are going in the right direction? The buisness side of Nintendo is simply entrenched in the past.

Oh and before you accuse me of being pro Sony and anti Nintendo far from it. I've owned more Nintendo systems then any other and play my SP everyday during my lunch break.

We only know about the download part, but we dont know about the controller, which IS the revolutionary part. Remember that the Rev has GC controller ports, and they are taking backwards compatability seriously, even more than MS and Sony.

OK, so they've taken almost a year to put out a real game for the DS, but once they do you'll see why. Nintendo takes their time making games that will be remembered forever as classics. So u can understand why they are taking their time making DS games.
And they can "try to beat the PSP with the GBA" because the GBA has better games and its easier to use. It isnt always about graphix or what it packs inside. Games are what makes systems and the PSP has no killer app, while the DS has a few coming up.
Nintendo has told us what direction they are going with the Rev. They want to appeal to casual gamers as well as hardcore gamers. Which xplainis y they are doing the whole doanload thing. Nintendo has said that the Revolution will bring a lot of innovation, but wont be hard to use.
I agree that they might be living in the past, but they should, cause they dominated the market back then and if they can profit off of it, y not?

[Kefkataran]

So by continuing to push a 4 year old system, that is acctually a system that's over a decade old, they're being revolutionary?

Umm, how is the GBA "actually a system that's over a decade old"? It plays Gameboy games, but it's pretty different from the original Gameboy.

but why did it take them most of a year before it was finally supported with any real games.

Why does it take ANY system, handheld or otherwise, around a year or a year and a half before really good games start coming out for it? There are very few exceptions to this rule. It's just a matter, I think, of good dev teams getting the time to learn the new system and work with it, but it's the case with almost every console out in the past 10 years.

Oh and before you accuse me of being pro Sony and anti Nintendo far from it. I've owned more Nintendo systems then any other and play my SP everyday during my lunch break.

That's awesome. Sounds like you get a ton of enjoyment out of the big N and their stuff. So why do you have to be so utterly bitchy about it? Don't get me wrong, I think they're far from perfect, just like, you know, all the other game companies. And there's some very specific problems you can point to, and I think you've hit some of them. The E3 thing was definitely a good quote to point to. But man, calm down about it some. It seems like you're taking their release of a new style of GBA as a personal attack.

[51|RandoM]

This is targeted at youngsters, imho. No flip for them to break, nice and small for their hands, etc.

...and they're really just testing the formfactor in preparation for the GBP(GameBoy Phone).

[mister_slim]

Nintendo is the senile old man of the industry now and should be put in a home with Atari and 3DO. I'd go as far to say that they're verging on Atari territory in the way they saturate the handheld market with the same system three or four times a generation. Not to mention in other countries they're also still (or until very recently) pushing the GBC.
Do you realize that Sony is still selling a fair amount of PS1s in less-developed countries? And Nintendo is selling a miniaturized N64 in China?

Obviously you can hold whatever opinion you want, but basing an analysis of the market on your personal wants and needs is very dumb.