Impressions: Visteon GBA/DVD Player

5 Comments by Blake Snow May 11th 2006 12:15AM
Filed under: Portable, E3

We checked out the Visteon portable DVD/GBA player again at the Nintendo booth today. Here's what we know according to company reps:

The unit will retail the first week of July contrary to prior information
You can buy the thing and have it installed for around $1,200
As you can see, GBA games DO NOT fill the entire screen as previous marketing materials have eluded to
The company is aiming to sell to families with young children, hence the GBA integration

Though Visteon says they're an "automotive company," we're not sure how well they'll do in the portable gaming industry, even having partnered with Nintendo. It would appear to the price sensitive that you might be able to buy a separate GBA and car-installed DVD player at a lower price. But maybe that's not the market they're going for.

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(Page 1) Reader Comments

citizen: May 11th 2006; 1:01AM

Wow, $1200. [Insert "Jadakiss" laugh here]

You can get solo DVD/LCD's for much cheaper. Check out this one sold by Walmart. It comes with a 15 games in 1 controller and two 7 inch LCDs:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4100513

If this DVD/GameBoy player was like $300 it would do really well. Let's see what goes down in July.

Jadakiss Laugh, BTW:

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dongle: May 11th 2006; 1:23AM

alluded.

hohoho: May 11th 2006; 2:47AM

craziest idea yet, how big the screen of the gba again?

Jack: May 11th 2006; 3:46AM

Why not get those dual 7" screens and a Gamecube w/Gameboy player and put that in your car? A lot more games, and probably cheaper than $1200 too...

redzoo: May 11th 2006; 5:47PM

It wasn't alluded to in the marketing materials. It was depicted.

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