i was more highlighting “this is new hardware doing the same thing but better”. gb-gbc is the same CPU, just faster. gba-gbasp is the exact same hardware.
new 3ds also sort of fits that description but it’s a completely different system internally, just moulded into a DS form factor.
But it’s so much more than CPU. GameCube and Wii have the same CPU, but are possibly the most different in the list.
Gameboy color was a huge change at the time. It was smaller (about the same size as the pocket) and playing color games was a novelty: that was Game Gear’s main selling point.
As for GBA/SP, yeah they’re super similar but the form factor is quite different.
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Nintendo have always worked in a tick-tock fashion. first they try something new, then they refine the formula.
obviously these are not all equivalent, but they have the same feeling of “now that the tech has matured, what can we do with it?”
I‘d say Wii + NDS = Wii U -> Switch -> Switch2
Gameboy -> GBC
GBA -> GBA SP
i was more highlighting “this is new hardware doing the same thing but better”. gb-gbc is the same CPU, just faster. gba-gbasp is the exact same hardware.
new 3ds also sort of fits that description but it’s a completely different system internally, just moulded into a DS form factor.
But it’s so much more than CPU. GameCube and Wii have the same CPU, but are possibly the most different in the list.
Gameboy color was a huge change at the time. It was smaller (about the same size as the pocket) and playing color games was a novelty: that was Game Gear’s main selling point.
As for GBA/SP, yeah they’re super similar but the form factor is quite different.
that’s why there’s no gc->Wii arrow, despite the Wii containing an entire gamecube!