19th February 2003, 1:23 AM
Yeah, Nintendo dominates handhelds to an even larger degree than Sony dominates consoles. In fact much larger since at least Sony's competition is surviving and even thriving well enough (the sales look bad in comparison, but alone they are pretty good). You know though, didn't Nintendo release a small test device that linked the GB and GBC to cell phones for online play? I never did hear how that turned out, just that it was used for Pokemon Crystal. That's the closest Nintendo has got to online play. Anyway, I wonder if in the future Nintendo might just do with some cell phone company what they did with Panasonic and strike a deal so they can put GBA hardware into a cell phone. Not likely but it would be interesting.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)