GBA Launch Date

February 13, 2001 12:16 PM

Nintendo has finally announced the official US launch date of the Game Boy Advance, which will be June 11. With some 110 million units sold the original Gameboy is pretty much the best selling handheld computer ever, and the GBA will be able to play the original GB games.

Scheduled for release on June 11, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance will be powered by a 32-bit CPU, with the potential to display 512 colors [Maarten - actually according to the Game Boy site it does 511 in character mode, 32,768 in bitmap mode] simultaneously. According to Nintendo, the current Game Boy Color represented 47 percent of all hardware systems sold through 2000

Analysts question Nintendo's ability to produce enough GBA's, since there is a shortage of LCD screens. Nintendo says they won't have problems. So, who's getting one?

Maarten Goldstein

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