Talk:Game Boy Nitro (Ohga Shrugs)

Nitro Comparisons
The way I see it, Nintendo released the DS the way they did, aka the DS Phat, as a method of countering the PSP, which would have blown away the GBA's specs. The PSP was 8 times as powerful as the DS anyway, but whatever.

My point is, the DS was released at something of an odd point, and thus was a weird leap from the GBA. The Nitro is meant to be a more ideologically conservative approach that uses a lot of the same tech.

My thought was, with an extra year and a half to wait, Nintendo could have released a handheld with significantly more power than the actual DS, although still not nearly as much as the PSP really had. For the sake of comparison, the Nitro is about half as powerful as the PSP was. The PSP's price was dropped to $199 in early 2006, or around the time the Nitro comes out. Now, I'm no technical expert, but $50 for twice the power and multimedia capabilities doesn't sound unreasonable. Besides, the DS Phat was cut to $130 in 2005.

So, what would Nitro games be like? Well, most of them would be similar to DS games in our timeline. But some would be closer to the PSP end of the spectrum. Remember, the Nitro is not that much weaker than our timeline's version of the Dreamcast. In other words, games like Monster Hunter would be possible, if not easy to make.--Salnax (talk) 20:23, March 27, 2013 (UTC)