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S.Peelman on 13 July 2016
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Barkley said:
S.Peelman said:
What about the DSi then? For those that say the exclusives make it a real successor, if you call the GameBoy Color a seperate generation so should you the DSi. Also, a sales number being available or not isn't relevant either, because we also know 3DSXL or even GameBoy micro sales numbers.

Nintendo says GameBoy Color is a variant of the GameBoy, and that's all we need to know. They have and are presenting it as one device as they do with DS/DSi and 3DS/n3DS.

DSI has 6 exclusive retail titles.

GBC has 416 exclusive retail titles.

GBC is a successor, it is a 5th generation console, the Gameboy is a 4th generation console released almost 10 years prior.
Ganoncrotch said:

Kinect has exclusive titles to it, does that make Kinect a successor to the Xbox360?

G-Con45 has exclusive games on the PSone

G-Con2 Has exclusive games on the PS2

See... you should more so look at why those titles are exclusive on the DSi all 6 of them are because of things such as the camera on the system, basically no different from what Kinect adds to the x360 to allow it play Kinect exclusive games, if you look at the graphics of the Alone in the Dark Video I linked above... you can't surely imagine that running on the original Gameboy? or I could be wrong, what would you wager as the most graphical game the original Gameboy is capable of? outside of the obvious hardware limit on storage being half that found in the GBC so if there was a lovely looking game it is going to be very limited in size still.

Before even looking for said games btw, should be noted that the GBC processor is almost double the speed of the original system complete with 3x the system ram (and having dedicated vram rather than just system ram) so I think the task would be similar to finding a game on the NES which looks better than what the SNES can offer. (even more so because the NES > SNES leap didn't double the cpu clock)

6, plus a couple hundred digital ones, those are always forgotten.

Besides, what's the cut-off point then? 1 exclusive? 5 exclusives? 10? 100? The type of game doesn't matter either, there's Gameboy Color games that couldn't run on normal Gameboy, but Xenoblade can't run on normal 3DS either, so again; where's the line? Call one of them seperate generations, then call of them that. And again, Nintendo doesn't do that themselves with any of them.