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

[HylianYoshi]

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.