E3 2005: Resizing the GBA, again

Cian Ginty, in Los Angeles, CA; Nintendo has become infamous for repacking old software and hardware - with the latter normally with slight design changes - and usually selling them again by the bucket load. The company has now redesigned the Game Boy Advance, making it yet again smaller.

Although they made it clear this is not the GBA’s successor, the announcement was made early this morning at their yearly pre-E3 press conference at the Hollywood and Highland center on Hollywood Boulevard.

The third GBA revamp, the Game Boy Micro, will see the handheld console shrink to 4” wide, 2” tall, and 0.7 thick, according to the company weighting around the same as 80 paper clips, or 2.8 ounces. Sporting a backlit 2” screen, it’s virtually the same insides.

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[Piaras]

Obviously Nintendo is striving hard to rid itself of the tag of most innovative company in the games industry.