Roundtable: The Next Game Boy

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Roundtable: The Next Game Boy
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Now that we've gotten our DS lites, we're ready for the next Game Boy.
Sure, Electronic Gaming Monthly rumored in its April 2006 issue another
DS redesign was coming later this year, but that's not enough. We're
looking forward to what may be the headliner of E3 2007: a new, next
generation Game Boy.

Well-read Nintendo fans who have kept pace with handheld news are
probably aware of Nintendo's strongly asserted stance on the DS: the
two-screened handheld is not intended as a replacement for the Game Boy
line but is instead a "third pillar" that shares the hardware stage
with Nintendo's home consoles and the Game Boys. During E3 2006, even
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata firmly reasserted this after an initial
comment of his was misinterpreted as the final death knell of the Game
Boy series. If that's true, then what will the next Game Boy be? What
should it feature? How different should it be from not only the SP, but
the DS? How should its design and features compete with the Sony PSP?
We consider the possibilities below.