Global Hardware (04/01/17)

[Wyrdness]

Ka-pi96 said:

Wyrdness said:

Because that's what GBC is, planned as a stop gap until the GBA arrived and given BC to help consumers migrate to it it was handled like a separate platform from the specs to the library, DSi and N3DS only have a few games exclusive to them and not an entire library. I never understood why people class them as one platform.

Because Nintendo do? The fact that they only ever released Gameboy sales including the Colour rather than separating them kind of suggests that they considered them as one platform.

They did that because they weren't expecting GBA to be delayed so badly so were already lumping their sales together early on expecting GBA to come out soon, when the GBA got delayed GBC became its own platform even though they were already lumping the sales together.