Why Nintendo’s Game Boy Lasted an Astonishing 14 Years
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2024
- The Nintendo Game Boy is the 4th best selling system of all time. Part of the reason? It sold for 14 years, crossing multiple generations of systems, outlasting all competition, and running the length of three American Presidents! And this came despite the fact that the Game Boy had “worse” graphics than any of its competition.
So…how did this happen? How did this system sell for 14 years and move more than 110 million units?
Let’s take a look.
PS - Did you know Game Boy released an accessory to help you go fishing…in the real world? No, seriously.
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at 4:45 a loud wario overpowers the video, can't hear what you're saying.
just like intended
Clearly the design of the video. Not an editing mistake caused by a content creator moving too damn fast.
...my bad..............
@@AlmostSomething I thought it was pretty clearly an accident and found it hilarious. And coincidentally well fitting with the script. Honestly it’s the kind of charm TH-cam is missing these days
wario's kiss jumpscare scarred me
it's so funny holy sh
I’m surprised no Nintendo console ever got a fax machine 😂
They still doing the same for switch. Using older cheap technology, and the system will be 8 years old next year.
BTW for the gamegear, the biggest reason why it didn't sold is the battery. Batteries was expensive in the 90s, and it needed more than the gameboy for much less screen time.
I think using freaking incandescent lamp as backlight was a choice
It's true. Nintendo always wins because of their vision. It's always worked.
@@grihaspoormachine blue leds didn't exist yet, meaning white leds couldn't exist
I gotta give em credit with Pokémon. I was 18 when I first saw it and only knew it as a kids cartoon and my friends were like "its actually a pretty cool little RPG!" I ended up hooked. I didn't even have a Gameboy lol I had gotten a Super Gameboy for my SNES a few years earlier.
Would you mind repeating basically everything you said while Wario was talking over you?
The original Gameboy manufacturing was actually stopped in 1996, with the Gameboy Pocket replacing it. So it's only 7 years. At that point, the original GB sales hat came to a stop, it only started selling well again thanks to the pocket Edition, and Pokemon released the same year. If you thus count 7 or 13, years, is up for debate.
The SNES also lasted past 1997 in Japan, and kept receiving new games through a flash cart service that was called Nintendo Power (unrelated to the magazine) until 2001. The Gameboy had it as well, and this service was available until 2007 believe it or not, despite not receiving any new games since 2001.
Dude your narration is incredible and your voice is sublime. This was a real treat to listen to.
Best compliment ever. thanks so much!!!
@@AlmostSomething If you ever get a better microphone... This channel would be perfect!
The Gameboy Color and pocket gave it extra life. The color served as a pusedo successor to the GB until the Gba came out. The new 3ds did that but didn't have as big of a libary as the gbc.
These videos are really great and seem very well researched. I look forward to seeing more!
Really appreciate that!! Thank you!!
The Game Boy showed that you didn't need to have the most advanced technology to be a lasting commercial success and major cultural influence, and that philosophy still lives on to this day with Nintendo Switch. It is not nearly as technologically advanced as other gaming machines currently on the market, but it does what it does well enough and has been the most popular gaming device of the past 7 years.
Wario was introduced on the Game boy? My first time meeting him was on Virtual Boy.
gameboy couldve been stopped and upgraded to a much more powerful device but pokemon blew up and nintendo decided to extend its lifespan. pokemon alone did it and the franchise became a much larger franchise than all of of disney and disney is a huge company for decades
Seriously? You let the evil wario advert talk OVER YOU... when you say "This may sound awful about nintendo but...."
THEY DID BEHAVE IN A DISGUSTING WAY TO DEVELOPERS!!!
THEY ARE STILL DOING IT *TODAY* TO TH-camRS.
If they were powerful enough to become an absolute monopoly they would have.
THE USER KICKED THEM IN THE BUTT HARD (n64 and GC)and they are STILL trying to do it.
Take off the child specs... yay...nintendo right?
ps. they may want some of the revenue from this vid.... cos 90s wario advert....still love them?
The hardware was always cheap to produce and sell, was Reliable, had Must have Games, and had a firm grasp on the Portable game console Market, outdoing countless competitors, most notably, the Lynx, and Game Gear during its early years, and the Neo Geo Pocket and WonderSwan in its later years
Great presentation style, not trying to scream or be obnoxiously loud, just present the facts and the history of a great machine, keep up the good work!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that.
The short answer is that it didn't. The GameBoys they were making towards the end of that 14 years were not the same as the ones that came early on. I've got a GameBoy Light, which was one of the last to be released, and it is a very different gaming experience from the OG ones. It's physically about half the size of the original, uses only 2 batteries and has a backlight that can be activated for play when it's dark. Sure, the games are the same, but it's kind of misleading to suggest that the GB lasted that long when it was updated so many times.
it's really no surprise. Game content is far superior to graphics. Look no further than Minecraft.
Yes, by the time we hit the 2d graphics of the early '90s that had started to change. And sometime in the last 20 years that became the case for 3d as well.
I would argue that the GameBoy Color is a successor to the Gameboy. GBC has a different logo and cartridge design in addition to the fact that the GameBoy can not play color games.
It is, you can play any GB game on GBC, but only some GBC games are backwards compaitlble and some straight up won't do anything in a GB other than demand to be played in a GBC. Whether you want to consider the GBL a GB in this context or not is a matter of opinion. I don't personally as it was created in part because there weren't enough sales of the hardware at that point, it came out the same year that the GBC did.
I remember seeing the gameboy color commercials on tv
The GameBoy Color was rather unfortunate. I've got one and it's pretty much unplayable in most lighting conditions without an external light. Unfortunately, the light that was used in the GameBoy Light is bluish-green which wouldn't work for lighting a color display.
Game Boy was a great handheld system that served many years
Gameboy was an amazing handheld system that served many years
Game Boy was a super awesome handheld system that served many years
Who is playing Dr mario like that? It's painful to watch
Mario EATS coins?!
Why do you think he has to keep unclogging those pipes by going down them? Water has a hard time moving all that gold past the p-trap.
I honestly never got 30 hours out of mine let alone 15
That's probably the figure if you turn off the sound and turn down the brightness of the display to be barely visible and play a game that's not terribly intensive.
Same reason Tiger Handhelds sold so well. Kids are stupid. I remember trying to play Metroid 2 on my little brother's Gameboy. I gave it a solid hour before I had to get that shit out of my sight and went right back to my SNES.
The new console: Gameboy revamp.
Underrated channel
ha! Thanks man.
Are we sure Nokia didn't work on the original gameboy given its durability.
Well, you couldn't play snake on it.........
How was Mortal Kombat on the Game Boy?
Oh, right, they made a trilogy for it. Holy crow what a mess, and it never improved because the hardware never improved, obviously. So why did they do it?
Why did they make a Street Fighter game? Did you know they made Street Fighter 2 for Game Boy?
The Game Gear Mortal Kombats 1 and 2 were actually pretty good. The frame rate was average for the console and it didn't have any of that flickering. It played fine because the hardware was superior.
Game Boy stuck around because Pokemon, being a turn-based strategy game, required next to no hardware power. Pokemon is literally a card game.
The Nintendo Game Boy stuck around because of a Japanese knock off of Magic the Gathering. Then they made more Advanced consoles.
1:18 _And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy_
Fans of The Offspring will get this 😉
GIVE IT TO ME, BABY!
It's funny how the GB lasted so long (2003) that it actually saw Sega going third party (2001). Yknow the company that made fun of it for being monochromatic.
Karma's a b_____.
With some pretty nasty ads!!!