There's no way a console such as the Gameboy is ever going to be 'put back on the market'. If you really think so, that only shows how little you know about how this industry works.
What you may see is stuff like the Duo-SNES that's been around for a while, that lets you play both NES and SNES-games. There's a lot of consoles like these around, but they are not developed by the original manufacturers, nor are they official. Nor will anyone make any new games for them with the hopes of getting sales. That's not happening. Why? Because they're old consoles. We have moved on. You can emulate NES on a phone now, and even if minor details like midi files not sounding exactly the same due to fonts (which might I add could easily be changed), that's not nearly enough of an intensive for someone like Nintendo to go out and release an ancient console on a market that they're already struggling with keeping up with. Especially when it can all be done on other devices, which would be cheaper and would completely eliminate the cost of producing new batches of an old console.
There's also the fact that almost no one would buy them. How do I know that? Well, it's pretty simple: this industry is all about profit, and console cycles are being stretched out and milked for everything they've got - the fact that they're not re-releasing the Gameboy shows us that they've come to the decision that there's no profit to be gotten from doing that. Another example that shows us they've been thinking about this, is the fact that we have the Virtual Console, which focuses completely on delivering older games to new and old audiences alike. That's their re-released Gameboy, if you will. And it's a glorified emulator.
It's not about the console being old. It's about the reputation of the company AND the hype for a game. IF they have both, and release a game on the SNES for example, I can guarantee 100% people would find a way to get the game because it looks promising. People do all kinds of crazy things for a good game, which is the point I was making. If a ground-breaking game, even if it's NOT on the most recent, up to date console is made, people go ballistik and do anything they can to get their hands on it. So if Nintendo really wanted to make an SNES-esque game without getting the details skewed on a newer system, they'd have no problem putting it on an SNES, making sure it's a good enough game to warrant such a thing, and then releasing it. The buyers will find a way to get their hands on it. Why are we still talking about this in a Pokemon thread XD? Let's make a separate topic if you really want to continue this.
Edited by Koh, 24 January 2013 - 09:59 AM.
