Aye, the Micro always was the bastard child with no real future. It’s funny, Nintendo always claimed that the DS would be a “third pillar” along with the GameBoy and Wii. But then they went and let the GameBoy die whilst feeding the slots of the DS.
Matsuo: That was their backup plan in case the DS failed. Ever since the Virtual Boy, Nintendo always has a backup plan on the hardware front. Guess why the N64 controller had three prongs, two of which were directional control devices? Because one was the joystick, a new, never before used means of thumb control.
I always took the ‘third pillar’ statement as something they said just in case the DS experiment went horribly tits-up, in which case they could laugh it off as a virtual boy style experiment and go back to the GBA series.
I’m guessing the VB is in the role of “aberration consigned to the dungeon, never to be acknowledged but eventually to be claimed as true heir by a scheming uncle” or “abomination, hated, but accepted as family responsibility, kept in secret but decently furnished chambers in a hidden attic, secretly fed peasants on a regular basis”.
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