It was designed by the French designer Gwénaël Nicolas and his Tokyo-based design studio Curiosity Inc. Unlike the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, which have the 'portrait' form factor (designed by Gunpei Yokoi), the Game Boy Advance has a 'landscape' form factor, putting the buttons to the sides of the device instead of below the screen.
Its successor, the Nintendo DS, was released in November 2004 and is backward compatible with Game Boy Advance software. A miniaturized redesign, the Game Boy Micro, was released in September 2005.Īs of June 2010, 81.51 million units of the Game Boy Advance series have been sold worldwide.
A newer revision of the SP with a backlit screen was released in 2005. The original model was followed in 2003 by the Game Boy Advance SP, a redesigned model with a frontlit screen and clamshell form factor. The GBA is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2001, and in mainland China as iQue Game Boy Advance on June 8, 2004. The Game Boy Advance ( GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.
