/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4951119
a combination of strong titles, good cost, long battery life, tough casing, and a good brand recognition

its not about the most advanced console, ever

>>4951119
there's a reason why wonderswan was pretty awesome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi
if he were still alive today, i imagine the world would be a different place.

>>4951134
this anon gets it.

rip yokoi

>>4951134
neither of them were particularly high end hardware though, they were both around the same price point. the wonderswan was cheaper. in terms of toughness, the wonderswan beats out the gbc handily. the things are built super sturdily and borderline impossible to break or lose bits to. the removable bit that covers the battery is also the battery holder, so you'll never lose it. seriously take on apart at some point, you'll be amazed compared to any other older handhelds.
both of them pretty much had everything the gbc had except maybe brand recognition, but with snk that shouldn't really be a problem.

>>4951159
his designs were god tier, man. i want to pick up one of the last lcd games he worked on but they're hard to come by.

>>4951154
>mfw he also designed the Virtual Boy

Way to irrevocably fuck up your reputation, Gunpei

>>4951239
I don’t think the Virual Boy was exactly his fault. It when more like:

Yokoi: this isn’t ready yet.
Nintendo: release it anyway!

>>4951246
So it was a Sega situation then?

How come Big Blue gets so much flak for the Saturn when Big Red was doing pretty much exactly the same thing? They gimped the N64s video output and memory system too due to fear of being way too late entering the 5th gen.

>>4951246
they should have delayed the release since they wouldn't want it to take away the shine from the n64, if they had have released it 2 years after the n64 it could have been used to revive the n64 since it would be considered new and high tech.

>>4951119
Because the Gameboy had...well... Actually good games.

>>4951119
The wonderswan was awesome, but I think maybe NOT GETTING RELEASED OUTSIDE OF JAPAN might have had an impact on its lifetime.

The Neo Geo Pocket Color had amazing games and third party support, but as soon as Aruze bought out SNK, they also immediately canceled all remaining NGPC games (including a new metal slug, chu chu rocket, windjammers, magician lord, arc the lad, a porn game, Mortal Kombat, Popolocrois, Intelligent Qubes, tons of english localizations, and more) and development of the system. So while it was about to become the best handheld of all time, some shitty fucking slot machine company that made the slot games OP mentioned ruined the whole thing.

Don't forget to email Aruze and tell them you hate them.

>>4951119
The RPG and Fighter bases largely didn't give a shit about handhelds.
Gameboy appealed to platformerfags who did, and then created an entirely new base with pokemania.

>>4951119
Nintendo simply had a more solid line up of games that appeal to the type of people who buy handheld systems (mainly kids). Pokemon, Zelda, Wario Land.

>>4951253
>How come Big Blue gets so much flak for the Saturn when Big Red was doing pretty much exactly the same thing?
Because Sega died and Nintendo didn't.

How many American girls were denied a Game Boy just because of its name?

>>4951810
Nintendo didn't release two home consoles at the same time. Virtual Boy is a portable.

It was kinda bullshit that Game Boy Color was released so soon after Pocket. I would have waited another couple months to play Pokémon had I been more informed. Didn't want to be lugging around the old brick (in green because it's what mom got us)

I got to play with my brother's Color at least.

>>4951810
Sega does what Nintendon't

>>4951692
Also, maybe those consoles got too late to the party. Kids and families already knew about the "Game Boy", even those who weren't gamers. Being released in the late 90s, Nintendo just had a much more huge and solid lineup of games.

Then, Pokemon would appear and that ended the portable console war.

Wonderswan actually did pretty well it was just never released outside of Japan.

>>4951119
Cool blog little bro. If only you'd been born when the WSC came out you might have tipped the scales in it's favor. The magic Nintendo used was having thousands of games instead of a handful. Amazing how such a simple concept has gone from common sense to rocket science to magic in a single degeneration.

>>4951119
I think marketing is a big reason. As a kid I wasn't even aware any handhelds existed other than Game Boy and Game Gear. It wasn't until I was much older (as in, within the last 5-10 years) that I learned there was this whole world of other handhelds out there.

>>4951119
>price
>great first party titles to build up a huge initial market
>tons of 3rd party developers making games to take advantage of that huge market

Nobody else could compete until way later when tech became a bigger selling point than price.

>>4951692
>windjammers
fuck me sideways i would kill someone for a ngpc version of windjammers

>>4951853
Faggot

>>4951819
You think you had it bad, in Japan they got the game boy light literally six months before the color, and they were both the same price.

You people are retarded. Game Boy was $50 with a game included while Game Gear was $200 and required 8 D-cell batteries which were $50/per week themselves back then. Gee what would YOUR 'rents pick ????????????????

>>4952301
> i get them beating out sega and atari, the lynx and the game gear were out of their technological depth with the ridiculous size, washed out screens, and battery issues

>>4951119
Nintendo handhelds have better games and more of them.

>>4952468
Who are you quoting

>>4952301
>I Didn't Read the OP Before Replying: The Post

>>4952524
>Who are you quoting
OP

>>4951119
Too little too late in the case of the Wonderswan. Neo Geo Pocket never left Japan.

Despite Nintendo's release of the Game Boy Color five months before, Bandai remained confident that the WonderSwan and its monochromatic screen would perform well because the original black-and-white Game Boy had previously been more successful than its color-screen competitors, the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, on the basis of its battery life and the quality of its game library
Before the WonderSwan Color could be released, however, Nintendo announced the Game Boy Advance, which featured superior hardware.
Units sold 3.50 million (combined)
1.55 million (WonderSwan)
1.1 million (WonderSwan Color)

The Neo Geo Pocket is a monochrome handheld game console released by SNK. It was the company's first handheld system and is part of the Neo Geo family. It debuted in Japan in late 1998 but never saw a western release, being exclusive to Japan and smaller Asian markets such as Hong Kong.
The video game companies, all of em, are and have always been a shitshow. You should consider good games we got, as miracles.
Considering the how well the gameboy sold:

Units sold Worldwide: 118.69 million[6] (including Game Boy (Play it Loud!), Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light and Color units)

...and Nintendo s market dominance, they were going to give the NES to Atari to sell for them in the west. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5_RgSCjBo

Consider this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv6UaHZxUys&t=

I m looking forward the furutre when stories about the Yakuza fucking up Nintendo, Sega, and everything coming from Japan to here.

Pic related

>>4952559
>Larry
>half truths
>always too lazy to cite any sources
>makes up excuses about other clickbait channels

>>4951119
Nintendo invented gaming. They are the giants whose shoulders we sit on.

>>4951778
>Wario Land
I hardly ever see people talk about those games, even here, probably the most underappreciated series Nintendo has.

>>4952690
This board should have a locked sticky that thanks Nintendo for saving video games after the global crash of the entire industry in 1984 :-)

>>4952216
>waaaaahhhhh
kek

>2018
>nintendo still hasn't made super wario bros but has made 4 different new super mario bros games
It hurts

>>4952709
>2018
>nintendo still hasn't made super wario bros but has made 4 different new super mario bros games
It hurts

>>4951119
The internet wasn't around back then so no one browsing their game isle would recognize who the fuck samurai showdown 2 was supposed to be, puyo pop? Is that like Pokemon, oh wait no it's some shitty Doctor Mario clone thingy, hey look Zelda Ages!!

>>4951692
They also recalled all consoles and software to turn into controllers for crane games. http://www.itmedia.co.jp/games/gsnews/0105/18/news24.html

>>4953252
fuck aruze forever
snk was gone before their time

>>4953225
Wario and Waruigi are gay until proven otherwise.

>>4951847
>>4951119
Didn't it get a lot of anime license games?

>>4951692
If only Sega had commited to the NGPC.

>>4952301
>required 8 D-cell batteries

>>4953049
You're still a faggot

>>4953581

>>4953225
I hate Waluigifags so god damn much, you're even worse than the Kumatorafags in Mother threads.
>>4953265
Mona and Princess Shokora say hello.

>>4952709

Warioware killed wario land. Nintendo has like 3x as many ip's as they have development resources, so they regularly leave IP's to die

>>4951853
Thousands of games like Rocket Power and the Mary Kate & Ashley Pocket Calendar

>>4951119
>wonderswan
GBA came out not too long after and was way better, with sampled audio playback (in software, but it was powerful enough to do it) and hardware scaling.
Also, the WSC was for the JP market only.
Did okay for what it was, but that's it.

>NGPC
SNK was busy fucking dying completely. They also weren't sold in enough places.
Also, the hardware was really weak -- loads better than the GBC (that's not hard), but the GBA out did it in damn near every way. Didn't have any real chance of surviving past 2002.

>>4951119
Marketing and availability. I’m 36 and I don’t recall ever seeing the NGPC or Wonderswan being stocked at mainstream retailers like Target and Walmart.

>>4953727
>2=thousands
wew lad

>>4953596
>waaaaahhhhh