"Ninty headlining with new GBA, DS online" (@ E³)
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Kolgar said:
It makes pefect sense as I've always said that the GBA SP does have it's own market separate from DS assuming this new GBA is an upgraded SP vs the old style GBA. Phasing out the SP would be stupid, since it's perfect for the lowend market. If I'm right and it's an upgraded SP, it will sell like hotcakes.
hey69 said:
Oh btw the reason why I'm guessing they'll use the 33MHz ARM7 is due to two reasons:
1. Consolidation ie instead of making two versions of the ARM7, 16MHz and 33MHz respectively, they'll only need to make the latter saving costs.
2. More processing power for decompressing 30fps videos.
For backwards compatibility they could just lower the clock to save battery. This will be an awesome little portable pocket video player. I wonder if this has anything to do with the V-Pocket.
price of course .hey69 said:
If they can price it lower and still make moeny then that is a good thing .
Its my understanding that even with a better screen and higher clock speed it will cost less to produce (mabye a micron process change helps with costs )
So if they can lower the price to say 50$ and make a bigger profit off each system it is not a bad thing .
they would have 50$ gba sp , 150$ nintendo ds and in the future a 250$ gb 2 . IT would set the price range about right for a new portable sometime in 2007
If it warrents the cost they will . It also fits into thier 3 tier approach . The gba sp will be the low end , entry lvl (can't get cheaper than 50$ really ) the ds would be the mid lvl at 150$ and the gb2 will be at 250$ . If you price it at 200$ it will each ds sales . If you move the ds to 100$ it will eat gba sales .see colon said:
erh ?
Screen price can drop for many reasons . 1 ) the gba screen size and quality is no longer produced for anything else or no longer in the volumes that it once was 2) the increase of volume on the ds normal screen by having it in the gba and the ds will lower the cost of both units .
Chip price 1) depending on the micron process the chip can be reduced greatly in not only price but heat disaptation and power consumption . 2 ) Using the same chips as in the ds will lower the price of the chip and they can stop producing the legacy chips
Wifi ... well its just wifi most likely intergreated into the one of the console chips . Perhaps the arm chip is custom and has it built in .
So at reduced cost or the same cost they can put out a portable with longer battery life , better screen quality and more features .
This can lower the price of the ds , give the ds more wifi enabled games in the form of gba games .
the GBA already has a wireless adapter, and it's not compatable with the DS at all. since the adapter is reletivly new i doubt nintend will drop support for it, and if the gbasp+ has built in wireless i think it's a safe bet it will be compatable with the wireless adapter as opposed to wifi.
nintendo's GBA wireless adapter compatable games list
as for the GBA getting a clock speed increase i don't think that will happen. even if nintendo purchased arm7's in bulk that were capable at running at a faster speed to get a bulk discount, i'm pretty sure they would clock them at stock gba speeds. the last thing nintendo needs right now is to devide it's GBA user base any more than they already have with the DS.
these games are compatable with the GBA wireless adapter
as for the GBA getting a clock speed increase i don't think that will happen. even if nintendo purchased arm7's in bulk that were capable at running at a faster speed to get a bulk discount, i'm pretty sure they would clock them at stock gba speeds. the last thing nintendo needs right now is to devide it's GBA user base any more than they already have with the DS.
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