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Was the Game Boy Color a successor to the Game Boy?

Yes 42 48.84%
 
No, it was an upgrade 34 39.53%
 
No, it was a refinement 9 10.47%
 
Other, explain in the thread 1 1.16%
 
Total:86
Wman1996 on 12 July 2016

I posed this question on Nintendo Life, and I think it is relevant on here as well. Was the Game Boy Color a sucessor to the Game Boy? Was it an upgrade (a la the DSi, New Nintendo 3DS, Project Scorpio, PS4 Neo) or even just a hardware revision (like the Game Boy Advance SP, DS Lite, PS2/PS3 Slim). 

I say it was a sucessor, this Iwata Asks article says so as well.

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/how-nintendo-3ds-made/1/0

"2. Game Boy Color™: A handheld game system released in October 1998 as the successor to the Game Boy system. It featured a color screen. 


3. Game Boy Advance: A handheld game system released on March, 2001 as the successor to the Game Boy Color. "

Admittedly, I don't think any sales figures exist of the Game Boy Color, as it always seems to be lumped with the Game Boy. 



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Goodnightmoon on 12 July 2016

I always thought of it as a successor with backward compatibility but for some reason the popular opinion is another.



HylianYoshi on 12 July 2016

I'd like to think of it as being like how the NEO and Scorpio will be to the PS4 and XB1, because it's a power increase that allows for more to be done on the hardware. But the fact that it had so many exclusives is something else, though. And it's often said to be a different platform, by Nintendo.

It's a pseudo-successor, I'd leave it at that.



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hadoram on 12 July 2016

its like 2ds - 3ds - new 3ds

One family



Barkley on 12 July 2016
mZuzek said:
I used to think of it as a successor, but I guess it really is just more of an upgrade, considering most "Game Boy Color" games could also be played on the original Game Boy anyways.

I view it as a sucessor, only 28% of GBC games were playable on the original gameboy. (576 GBC games, 160 Backwards Compatible).



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Barkley on 12 July 2016
hadoram said:
its like 2ds - 3ds - new 3ds

One family

New 3ds doesn't have 416 exclusive games though :P



Mr Puggsly on 12 July 2016

It was definitely a successor. It had improved specs and a lot of games that weren't BC.



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Mr Puggsly on 12 July 2016
hadoram said:
its like 2ds - 3ds - new 3ds

One family

Eh... New 3DS is technicaly a successor. Primarily due to it having exclusive content.



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Luke888 on 12 July 2016

Of course it was, sales are set apart between Game Boy Colour and GB meaning that they are from different generations, the GBA and the GBA SP aren't divided.



Barkley on 12 July 2016
Luke888 said:
Of course it was, sales are set apart between Game Boy Colour and GB meaning that they are from different generations, the GBA and the GBA SP aren't divided.

Actually I don't think you will be able to find sales for the GBC that aren't grouped together with GB sales. However the GBC is listed as being a 5th generation console and the GB a 4th generation console.