| mike_intellivision said: Second, the competitors were superior to the Gameboy -- except in battery life and game play. Even then, Nintendo knew what most consumers wanted. |
The Superior argument is quite difficult, I had a Gamegear and recently I bought a Lynx and so far my experience is:
Gamegear: Yes Sonic looks cool but the battery life is utter crap, the thing uses 6 AA batteries and it's a hog. You can actually run out of batteries in 3 hours, also it has a quite annoying malfuction with the sound, seems like the processor couldn't handle properly the sound chip so it get ruined quite easily. It's like the RROD but only foused on the sound.
Lynx: Horrible handheld, it's way too big and the screen is terrible, worse than the gameboy, you need to be in a very specific position to see the bloody thing and yes it eats batteries quickly. I have seen few good games for this thing too.
In my book Superior doesn't mean only graphics in color, means affordable systems that are also easy to get, the Gamegear and the Lynx aren't convenient systems, I even had the "portable rechargable" battery for the gamegear, the thing is almost the size of a DS lite.
