And the GBC was replaced by the GBA due to competition from the Wonderswan. Time is not a good reason, I think, for judging a game system as being a successor or a 'stopgap'.
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"Wii U" section of Wal-Mart Changed to "Nintendo"?
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And the GBC was replaced by the GBA due to competition from the Wonderswan. Time is not a good reason, I think, for judging a game system as being a successor or a 'stopgap'.
Pokemaniac
Member
I call the GBC a stopgap system not for any single reason, but for a lot of little reasons that all add up. The GBC is a system that only lasted a couple years on the market, had hardware basically identical to it's predecessor aside from a specific bump, had a basically identical form factor to it's predecessor, and generally used exactly the same peripherals as it's predecesssor. It didn't even add any new controls, as is typical for a new generation of a Nintendo handheld. There's also the fact that a not insignificant portion of Game Boy Color games were backwards compatible with older Game Boys. That is highly atypical for a new platform of that time.
Even the Wii, the Nintendo system most similar to it's predecessor, still had much more differentiation than that. Even if the main chips were largely the same, The Wii introduced the "Starlet" CPU core, which has no analog in the GameCube and significantly changed the way a bunch of things worked. It looks very different from a GameCube, and the GameCube slots are clearly there largely for backwards compatibility.
The GBC really has far more in common with the DSi and New 3DS than with the Wii.
I think this conversation may deserve it's own thread. Give me a few minutes, and I'll make one.
EDIT: New Thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1117295
Fourth Storm
Member
And those signs are over the Xbox games. That's surreal. lol
Calamari41
41 > 38
The problem with this is that if a court decides that "Coke," for example, is synonymous with soda, any company can put the word "Coke" on their cans.
They actually send agents out to sue restaurants that give you a Pepsi when you ask for a Coke for this reason. It's why most places will say "is Pepsi OK?"
is there a way to downscale the images lol
It's actually kind of amazing to go into a wal-mart's electronics section in 2015 to see just how much the average person still doesn't know anything about video games. It's like the entire place is run by my parents circa 1996.
a Master Ninja
Member
You should have asked the clerk if you could get a Gameboy Advance on layaway.Since i had some business to do in the next town over it looks like they are pretty behind with the times lol and also very lazy
Now that I think about it, you should have asked the clerk if they've ever even heard of a GBA.
sixteen-bit
Member
I wanna cop it for my game room. I should ask when they're gonna get rid of it.
brandonh83
Banned
Only thing that confuses me is that there's actually a Walmart out there that doesn't mix One and 360 games together in the same fucking shelf space.
Is this. A thing? My Walmart is in Podunk USA and we have them separate
brandonh83
Banned
Every one I've been to has been a mess, they just have the games wherever on the shelves. I mean I don't really care I was just surprised to see it.
I think there's like. Two or three XB1/PS4 games in the last gen case. But they have them labeled properly.
Weird I'll have to keep an eye out at other ealmarts apparently there's all levels of weird shit like a GBA display posted above holy shit
DownGrader
Member
I love/hate your store.
Also, these banners are really sleek but totally non-eye-catching, which defeats a half of their purpose. Wii/DS-era "Apple vibe" was good, but not in this context.
Kinda a side note, but I noticed the electronics section of my local Target was gutted today. Looks like they cleared out the old Disney Infinity stuff, relocated the Amiibo section, and cleared the old PC clearance section too.
Same with each PS XB and Nintendo rows. It's ll gutted, probably for new holiday signage.
Same with each PS XB and Nintendo rows. It's ll gutted, probably for new holiday signage.
So, bringing this up because of the recent Zelda: Triforce Heroes' commercial
Quoting myself from the other thread
So, it looks like it's not just on-shelves marketing.
Quoting myself from the other thread
So, it looks like it's not just on-shelves marketing.
sixteen-bit
Member
I wonder if they're gonna call the NX just the Nintendo
Graphics Horse
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Introducing the Nintendo Wat.