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the GBC is a more powerful system then the GB and has its on exclusives it should be its own.

GB - GBC - GBA

It's not.  There is no debate about this.  Please read my posts above.   The GBC is simply a new model of the original Gameboy line.  Not a new product of the Gameboy brand, a la Gameboy Advance.

 The processor, which is a Z80 workalike made by Sharp with a few extra (bit manipulation) instructions, has a clock speed of approx. 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy. The Game Boy Color also has four times as much memory as the original (32 kilobytes system RAM, 16 kilobytes video RAM). Additionally, the Game Boy Color could address more ROM, allowing games as much as eight times the maximum size of those for the original Game Boy. The screen resolution was the same as the original Game Boy, which is 160x144 pixels.

You apparently didn't read my posts above as I requested. New internal components do not mean anything at all. None, zilch, nothing, nada.

The Ford Mustang comes in 4 cylinder, V6 and V8 engines. Does that mean all 3 are different products? No, they are just different models of the same product.

DTG is a newb: GBC games could be played on the GB or GBP

just in black and white..

GBC= new model fo GB

the only new GB was GBA

In the traditional sense of video game console and handheld upgrades the GBC is a new console unto itself. Its an upgarde in every sense of the word (screen ratio, button count not counting) to the GB-GBP-GBL line. The same cannot be said about other hardware revisions (GBA-GBASP-GBM-GBASP+) < these are the same GBA line (PS2-PS2S) < same line.

The GBC inherits almost nothing from the GB-GBP-GBL save the external desing (even thsi is changed with the addition of the IR port) it ahs its on exclusives, as well as special feature titles (Link's Awakening DX, Tetris DX) that can be played on both the GB line and the GBC.

But the GBC is completly different from the GB dosent that constitute a seperate product in the video game world?

A Mustan GT and a 76 Mustang ARE NOT THE SAME and neither si Game Boy and Game Boy Color. their just marketed under the same banner. Name does not imply product line, only branding.

As for the engines...this I have to conceed...they are the same product...but in the video game world performance upgrades and specific games for a system imply a new console...its the way it always has been.

The GBC cant be compared to the PS2Slim, as they PS2Slim did what the PS2 did, the GBC does what the GB-GBP-GBL cant.

Put Oracle of Ages in a Game Boy Pocket and tell me what happens.

So somehow the video game industry, according to you, has branding and product rules that supersede the standard canon of the larger consumer electronics industry?

It's not a new product, just a new model. The extra horsepower was required to pump out the color pixels over the black and white pixels the original models.

Whether you and others like it or not, the GBC is a model of the original Gameboy product line. A new product under the Gameboy brand did not appear until the Gameboy Advance. All the debating in the world cannot and will not change this fact.

I don't know what else to tell but it is the way it is.

I suppose agree to disagree is where Im going to leave it.

I still see everything the GBC offers as a new system, I mean, why not. Its mroe powerful, has new features, its own exclusives and...wikipedia said so. :p