The Gameboy Micro Reviewed

Advtg writes "Ars Technica has a great review of the Gameboy Micro, which is now shipping in North America. The thing is amazingly small, but it looks as though worries about the screen being too small and too dim aren't true. But will it sell? From the review: 'You'd think at this point the portable market would just be saturated with Nintendo products, and the Micro carries a price tag of US$99.99. For just US$30 more you can get a DS, and for US$20 less you can get an SP with the newly brightened screen. It occupies somewhat of an awkward place in terms of price point and features.'"

Screen problems uh?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

The thing is amazingly small, but it looks as though worries about the screen being too small and too dim aren't true.

Look at the bright side: if they had called it GameBoy Nano, it would have a scratch-prone screen, so it's not so bad...

This thing is tiny

[Brent Spiner]

This makes the original Gameboy [loungespot.com] seem HUGE.

The Bad

[Anonymous Coward]

Your girlfriend will make it pink. Fair warning.

Haha, he assumes too much.

Re:Why?

[TMonks]

Yeah, and its also just like if Apple decided to release some sort of smaller iPod along with the regular iPod. It just doesn't make sense.

Re:IGN Gameboy's Review

[Sebilrazen]

It's tiny...and it is surprisingly comfortable to hold. We're still talking about the Micro right?

Re:Would you buy this or the PSP?

[NiceGeek]

You spend over $100 for a game system and can't be sure which one you bought? Early on-set Alzheimer's?

Here I am sitting on the crapper...

[Darius Jedburgh]

...discretely playing Golden Sun 2 on my GBA Micro wondering how anyone could have problems imagining why they'd be popular. Any time I want a break at work off I go without even the slightest telltale bulge in my pocket to give away what I'm doing. Unfortunately I think the person in the next stall might have just spotted the laptop that I'm using in here to post this comment...

Confused grandparents

[dynooomite]

This just means more confused geriatrics wandering aimlessly around an electronics store searching for that "new fangled game thing my grandson wants." That isn't good for anyone.

Re:Here I am sitting on the crapper...

[cornface]

Here I am sitting on the crapper...without even the slightest telltale bulge in my pocket to give away what I'm doing.

Suuuuure...

Re:The biggest selling point

[cornface]

If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system. Because it's a lot easier to take over to a friends house than that massive XBox, with the original massive controllers. Even the XBox 360 is a huge, I thought they learned the first time that nobody wants a 7 pound console.

Whoa! 7lbs! How can you even LIFT it? A forklift is the only way. Two forklifts, one lifting from each end. And an anti-gravity machine. Probably twelve brawny strongmen, just for good measure.

Do you take your console over to your buddy's house on your tricycle? Does it overbalance you? Any console on the market will easily fit into a grocery sack or backpack. Do you carry your Gamecube by the handle? If so, how do you hold the games, power brick, and controllers? In a bag? Why not just stick everything in the same bag? It's a magic bag of holding!

Yo are correct in thinking that looking childish does not make something bad. This has several obvious corollaries.

- Looking childish does not make something good.
- Not looking childish does not make something bad.
- Not looking childish does not make something good.

The lesson in all this?

If you buy groceries, you can carry a game console. Even a big 7lb whopper! If you eat your Wheaties you MAY even show off and carry it one-handed.

Re:You can overanalyze it from a feature/function

[cornface]

Ooooh, $20.

If you own it for two years, that works out to a whopping 3 cents per day difference! Man, I'm going to have to cut back on...nothing...to finance this one. Why pay 18 cents per day when I could be paying 15? I can finally afford that...gumball...I've been saving up for.

Thank god I'm frugal.

Re:You'd think so...

[Sartak]

they like what's smallest best.

At last, my day has come!

Re:As a PSP Owner....ITS HUGE!!!

[Quiet_Desperation]

...the fact that its a pain to get in and out of my pants... ...without having a huge bulge in my pants....

Is that a Gameboy Micro in your pants, or are you just-

Wait a second...

This was easy... a little... *too* easy...

(looks around and backs away slowly)

...at least a shrunken version...

Gah! It's a trap!

(Runs away, firing blindly over shoulder)

Re:The biggest selling point

[Lectrik]

If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system.

Psssh.
It looks childish because it is "Atomic Purple"
I voided the warranties on all my game systems by taking them apart and giving them a decent wood-grainy paint job to match the rest of the furnature.
But either way, the GC stood out from the other ones that were black. So it was being rebelious and hence more teenagery than the conformist adulty platforms.
That and it would occasionally cut class and go smoke behind the gym too.