| HyrulianScrolls said: There was a weird cultural shift at the time with millennials who were becoming adolescents where everything colorful and whimsical was deemed “kiddy” and “stupid.” We just wanted gritty and gory at the time. Believe me, I lived through it and it was an incredibly stupid and judgmental time in pop culture. The GBA avoided the GC’s fate by being the system of the two that appealed more to kids/was more affordable for parents to buy kids. And even some of said adolescent millennials were ok getting a GBA as a secondary system to Ps2 or Xbox because handhelds weren’t viewed as “legit” gaming anyways (again, stupid time in the culture). |
Well,yeaaah..., but that was not really that new. I mean... it was just an evolution from the GenX teens in the 90s. XGen teens were a lot more grunge and darker than teens in the 80s. Millennials simply adopted that... and maybe exaggerated it in a comic way, almost as a travesty. The real difference was the Millennials "got the internet" in its teen years, and that mixed amazingly bad XD.
XGens were in its 20s by then.
Original GBA seemed just a toy, like GC. But teenagers and young adults liked the Advance SP. Even its ads were more "mature" than the original GBA. That new "metallic" model helped that console to sell a lot better among a more adult audience, because it was stylish, neat, and was pretty more portable cause it could close itself (also, it had backlit screen: Original GBA did not). Can't see the original GBA selling well to many 17-23 old people, particularly the purple model (Why the hell Nintendo loved that color so much by the early 2000s? It was too childish in those years).
