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Is Nintendo going to keep making GBA games until the next Gameboy is released?
- Thread starter Idioteque
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it really is becoming clearer that the GBA is indeed not a "second pillar". The JPN releases are drying up, and almost all of Nintendo's first party big releases are DS only. The big first party releases for the rest of the year are Yoshi: Topsy Turvy, DK King of Swing, Mario Tennis, and Donkey Kong Country 3. Now compare this to DS which has the following as first party:
Kirby: Canvas Curse
Meteos
Advance Wars
Nintendogs
Trace Memory
Metroid Prime
Mario Kart
Electroplankton
Metroid Prime Pinball
Animal Crossing
Mario & Luigi 2
GBA isn't dead. still has some decent 3rd party games coming out, but yeah, DS has definitely taken over in Nintendo's eyes, and it will only be a little while longer (a couple million more units) until 3rd parties switch gears also.
Kirby: Canvas Curse
Meteos
Advance Wars
Nintendogs
Trace Memory
Metroid Prime
Mario Kart
Electroplankton
Metroid Prime Pinball
Animal Crossing
Mario & Luigi 2
GBA isn't dead. still has some decent 3rd party games coming out, but yeah, DS has definitely taken over in Nintendo's eyes, and it will only be a little while longer (a couple million more units) until 3rd parties switch gears also.
I think we'll continue to see new Nintendo GBA games for another year or so, but none coming out of NCL directly (they've moved over to DS almost entirely). Looking at the software Nintendo still has in R&D...
Game Boy Advance
-Custom Robo Ace (Noise)
-Digitylish (Nintendo)
-Donkey Kong Country 3 (Rare)
-Mario Tennis Advance (Camelot Software Planning)
-Mother 3 (Nintendo)
-Nonono Puzzle Chalien (Creatures)
-Screw Breaker (Game Freak Entertainment)
Nintendo DS
-Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Intelligent Systems)
-Animal Crossing to Go! (Nintendo)
-DS Rakuhiki Jiten (Nintendo)
-DSpeak (Nintendo)
-Eyeshield 21 (Nintendo)
-Fushigi no Dungeon: Pokemon World: Pikachu's Adventure (Chunsoft)
-Jump Super Stars (Ganbarion)
-Magical Vacation II (Brownie Brown)
-Mario & Luigi 2 (Alphadream)
-Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
-Metroid Dread (Nintendo)
-Metroid Prime: Hunters (Nintendo Software Technology)
-Metroid Prime: Pinball (Fuse Games)
-New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
-Nintendo Tetris (Nintendo)
-Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (iNiS)
-Pokémon Diamond/Pearl (Game Freak Entertainment)
-Super Princess Peach (Nintendo)
-The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
-Touch Golf! (T&E Soft)
-Yawaraka Atama Juku (Nintendo)
GameCube
-Battalion Wars (Kuju Entertainment)
-Chibi-Robo (Skip)
-Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (Konami)
-Eyeshield 21 (Nintendo)
-Geist (n-Space)
-Kirby Adventure (HAL Laboratory)
-Mario Baseball (Namco)
-Mario Party 7 (Hudson)
-Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball (Exile Interactive)
-Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (Genius Sonority)
-Super Mario Strikers (Next Level Games)
-The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
-Yoot Saito's Odama (Vivarium)
Revolution
-Metroid Prime 3 (Retro Studios)
-New Franchise (Nintendo)
-Super Mario (Nintendo)
-Super Smash Bros 3 (HAL Laboratory)
-The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
Game Boy Advance
-Custom Robo Ace (Noise)
-Digitylish (Nintendo)
-Donkey Kong Country 3 (Rare)
-Mario Tennis Advance (Camelot Software Planning)
-Mother 3 (Nintendo)
-Nonono Puzzle Chalien (Creatures)
-Screw Breaker (Game Freak Entertainment)
Nintendo DS
-Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Intelligent Systems)
-Animal Crossing to Go! (Nintendo)
-DS Rakuhiki Jiten (Nintendo)
-DSpeak (Nintendo)
-Eyeshield 21 (Nintendo)
-Fushigi no Dungeon: Pokemon World: Pikachu's Adventure (Chunsoft)
-Jump Super Stars (Ganbarion)
-Magical Vacation II (Brownie Brown)
-Mario & Luigi 2 (Alphadream)
-Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
-Metroid Dread (Nintendo)
-Metroid Prime: Hunters (Nintendo Software Technology)
-Metroid Prime: Pinball (Fuse Games)
-New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
-Nintendo Tetris (Nintendo)
-Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (iNiS)
-Pokémon Diamond/Pearl (Game Freak Entertainment)
-Super Princess Peach (Nintendo)
-The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
-Touch Golf! (T&E Soft)
-Yawaraka Atama Juku (Nintendo)
GameCube
-Battalion Wars (Kuju Entertainment)
-Chibi-Robo (Skip)
-Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (Konami)
-Eyeshield 21 (Nintendo)
-Geist (n-Space)
-Kirby Adventure (HAL Laboratory)
-Mario Baseball (Namco)
-Mario Party 7 (Hudson)
-Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball (Exile Interactive)
-Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (Genius Sonority)
-Super Mario Strikers (Next Level Games)
-The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
-Yoot Saito's Odama (Vivarium)
Revolution
-Metroid Prime 3 (Retro Studios)
-New Franchise (Nintendo)
-Super Mario (Nintendo)
-Super Smash Bros 3 (HAL Laboratory)
-The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
NintendosBooger
Member
What the hell...? Why?
Gaia Theory
Member
What is Digitylish?
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
xexex said:
I cannot wait until you die!!!!
ok not really. But I love me some gba.
Jibber Hack
Member
I see thrid parties supporting the platform for a good while. It's basically a minimal investment to hit millions of gamers. Why not support it? Nintendo on the other hand has a new platform to sell. I don't think that they're going to be throwing much support ot the GBA for much longer. I mean, even Pokemon is making the jump to the DS. The only reason the GBA is going to be around is to make Nintendo more money. They're showcasing their "innovation" elsewhere.
jarrod said:I'm actually pretty excited about Screw Breaker, it looks fantastic. It's been way too long since Game Freak did something besides Pokemon... I wouldn't mind Pulseman 2 either if they could get the IP back from Sega.
Ditto! Pulseman was great and SB is looking to be pretty nice to. It's about time Ninty let the freaks do something else again.
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Deleted member 284
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Isn't Gamefreaks a seperate company from Nintndo? At least thats the impression I got when I spoke to Fishie at E3.Lindsay said:
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I thought otherwise...ah well.
And speaking of fishie, he told me how Sega originally passed on Pokemon. And how Nintendo almost passed too. Imagine if Sega had pokemon on the GG...wow.
Haha..Fishie was actually quite a decent person.
And speaking of fishie, he told me how Sega originally passed on Pokemon. And how Nintendo almost passed too. Imagine if Sega had pokemon on the GG...wow.
demi said:
Haha..Fishie was actually quite a decent person.
Interesting. Here's GameFreak's gameography if you're curious...olubode said:
Japan
-Quinty (FC) Namco 1989
-Jelly Boy (SFC) Sony Imagesoft 1991
-Yoshi no Tamago (GB) Nintendo 1991
-Magical Taru Ruuto-Kun (MD) Sega 1992
-Mario & Wario (SFC) Nintendo 1993
-Nontan to Isshou: Kuru Kuru Puzzle (GB) Victor Interactive 1994
-Pulseman (MD) Sega 1994
-Pocket Monsters Akai (GB) Nintendo 1996
-Pocket Monsters Midori (GB) Nintendo 1996
-Bazaaru de Gozaru no Game de Gozaru (PCE) NEC Interchannel 1996
-Bushi Seiryuuden: Futari no Yuusha (SFC) T&E Soft 1997
-Pocket Monsters Pikachu (GB) Nintendo 1998
-Click + Medic (PS) Sony Music Entertainment 1999
-Pocket Monsters Gin (GBC) Nintendo 1999
-Pocket Monsters Kin (GBC) Nintendo 1999
-Pocket Monsters Crystal (GBC) Nintendo 2000
-Pocket Monsters Ruby (GBA) Nintendo 2002
-Pocket Monsters Sapphire (GBA) Nintendo 2002
-Pocket Monsters Fire Red (GBA) Nintendo 2004
-Pocket Monsters Leaf Green (GBA) Nintendo 2004
-Pocket Monsters Emerald (GBA) Nintendo 2004
-Screw Breaker (GBA) Nintendo 2005
-Pocket Monsters Diamond (DS) Nintendo 2005
-Pocket Monsters Pearl (DS) Nintendo 2005
USA
-Mendel Palace (NES) Hudson Soft 1989
-Smart Ball (SNES) Sony Imagesoft 1992
-Yoshi (GB) Nintendo 1992
-Pokémon Blue Version (GB) Nintendo 1998
-Pokémon Red Version (GB) Nintendo 1998
-Pokémon Yellow Version (GB) Nintendo 1999
-Pokémon Gold Version (GBC) Nintendo 2000
-Pokémon Silver Version (GBC) Nintendo 2000
-Pokémon Crystal Version (GBC) Nintendo 2001
-Pokémon Ruby Version (GBA) Nintendo 2003
-Pokémon Sapphire Version (GBA) Nintendo 2003
-Pokémon Fire Red Version (GBA) Nintendo 2004
-Pokémon Leaf Green Version (GBA) Nintendo 2004
-Pokémon Emerald Version (GBA) Nintendo 2005
-Screw Breaker (GBA) Nintendo 2005
-Pokémon Diamond Version (DS) Nintendo 2006
-Pokémon Pearl Version (DS) Nintendo 2006