Only a hair larger, and two thirds the weight, of an iPod mini. The GB Micro offers the clearest, brightest screen we've ever put into a handheld. With an adjustable screen brightness, and fully customisable face plates, it's not new technology, but it is, a whole new look.
- Reggie at e3
The Gameboy Micro, sucessor to the GBASP, has been officially given a release date (for the U.S) of September 19th 2005. The actual price of the console has not yet been released, but I suspect it will cost less than the DS, around the same as the current GBASP.
Although many people would think the Micro to be a mistake by Nintendo (why sell a comparatively weak console with the PSP around?), in my opinion releasing the Micro is clever marketing. Just look at the iPod and iPod mini. Why buy a mini that isn't all that smaller in size to the original iPod, holds about a tenth as much, for almost the same price? Yet the mini has been very popular, still selling rapidly today. Plus, the DS and GBASP together are more than enough to hold back PSP sales (actually DS alone is selling twice as much as PSP in Japan), and the Micro will finish the PSP off (IMO only, please don't comment on this).
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