Updating Console Images

[Akamadoushi]

The Gameling seems to be a composite of the Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance, as well as their respective variants (Pocket, Mini, SP, etc.) Or, at very least, a GB/GBC hybrid, and GBA is omitted entirely.

The image for PCs changes every so many years. Why not Gameling? It would make sense, as original GB games play fine in GBC. Same system as far as GDT is concerned, but a shiny new picture after a few years. Even better would be a story event declaring the new color version, and a rise in the Gameling’s market share.

This could be done for other consoles as well (PSOne, PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim, etc.), but I think the Gameling would benefit the most from something like this. Going straight from GB to DS without even a graphical cue is a little jarring.

[WaveJones]

I would just want Ninvento to make an update of the Gameling titled Gameling Color, and then make an update, again, titled Gameling Superior, and then it updates again to Gameling Superior DX. But that would make too much space.

Maybe make an option for Extended Gameplay, with more consoles for 40-50 years?

[TheSniper]

BUt that would make no sense because its not like PS1 would update to PS2 because its around 3-4 years apart.

[Akamadoushi]

True, but the PS2 was included. The GBC wasn’t. The GB and GBC has a lot more in common than the PS and PS2 (considering many new games developed for the GBC would actually run fine on the GB, there were very few GBC exclusives).

What I suggested is a way to include the currently absent GBC without coding a whole new console, and I think it works because of how similar and compatible they were (nearly all titles interchangeable).

[TheSniper]

Well if time gets altered to make it go a very slow pace then you can fit more consoles within a 35 year period.

[WaveJones]

BUt that would make no sense because its not like PS1 would update to PS2 because its around 3-4 years apart.

The PS2, PS3, and PS4 was and will always be a successor, not an update to the console itself.

[Akamadoushi]

The PS2, PS3, and PS4 was and will always be a successor, not an update to the console itself.

Aye. The GBC wasn’t a whole new platform that supports backwards compatibility, it was a GB with a color screen and a bigger processor. It did leave a mark on the gaming world, though. I think an image update somewhere between the Gameling release and the GS release, with or without an accompanying story event, would be a nice way to acknowledge the GBC without the trouble of coding a new platform into the game.

[WaveJones]

Aye. The GBC wasn’t a whole new platform that supports backwards compatibility, it was a GB with a color screen and a bigger processor. It did leave a mark on the gaming world, though. I think an image update somewhere between the Gameling release and the GS release, with or without an accompanying story event, would be a nice way to acknowledge the GBC without the trouble of coding a new platform into the game.

Yup, so is the GBA. Though the DS is a new console because it doesn’t support GB and GBC games, though it supports GBA, and the updated DS Lite, DSi, and the new console supporting capabilities that the DS could do before, the 3DS.