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Nintendo: DS not Game Boy Advance's successor

Neowin · Jan 21, 2004 17:21 EST with -1 comments

Japanese game giant clarifies its new double-screen gaming system's marketplace role.

In an interview conducted by Bloomberg Japan, Nintendo confirmed that the Nintendo DS, its newly announced portable dual-screen gaming system, is not being created to take over the Game Boy Advance's market. The company also confirmed that a separate machine is being developed as a next-generation successor for the GBA. According to Nintendo's public relations chief Yasuhiro Minagawa, "The development of succeeding machines for the GBA and Game Cube are in the works, separately from the Nintendo DS."

News source: GameSpot