Nintendo to Discontinue Gameboy Advanced and Micro?

With the recent redesign of Nintendo.com the only two products featured on the homepage are the Wii and DS. Digging through the site there is no mention anywhere of the existence of things like the gamecube or the gameboy. But I happen to still have the link to the old gameboy advanced website http://www.nintendo.com/channel/gba It links to a pretty interesting page:

OLDER SYSTEMS, GAMES, and ACCESSORIES

Older systems, such as the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Game Cube, Nintendo 64, NES, Super NES, Virtual Boy, or older Game Boy systems may be more difficult to find as retailers tend to only stock the newer systems. In most cases, the only option is to buy used or refurbished products.

Certainly the new site is nicer looking than the old one. But considering I can still go pickup a gameboy advanced sp at the local walmart... it may be premature to strip them from their website. At one point Nintendo was saying that the DS was a seperate line from the gameboy and they would continue to develop independently. This to be no more?

Top 99 Games

I have been crunching some numbers in regards to IGN's recent Top 99 Games list. Here is what I have found out.

• 33% of the top 99 games are exclusively on a Nintendo console.



• 20% of the top 99 games are exclusively on a Sony console.



• 5% of the top 99 games are exclusively on a Microsoft console.

Couple things I noticed when I was tallying everything. First of all almost all of the top xbox games have been ported to PC. Since the rule was exclusively on a system I could not count these. But if when I think about this it makes sense because Microsoft is not just in the console business they also wish to encourage people to use their operating system. If I can't play my favorite games on a mac then I am more likely to stick around. In a way I want to count PC games for Microsoft.

Secondly, Nintendo is the king of the handheld market. What really helped push up Nintendo's numbers were all the Game boy Advanced games on the list.

What does all this mean? I don't know you tell me. Feel free to blast the hell out of this.