GBA Gets A Media Player
In a rather surprising deviation from their gaming-only strategy, Nintendo of Japan has revealed a multimedia player designed for the Game Boy Advance, co-developed with Panasonic.
The device is buried inside of a standard GBA cartridge, accepts regular SD cards as media, and has a headphone jack directly on the unit, to be used with the bundled headphones. It plays standard media formats such as MP3 audio and MPEG-4 video. There will be a software loader on the cart allowing for browsing and manipulating the media contained on the device.
No MSRP has been suggested, but a February 2005 release in Japan is expected. Stay tuned for more information as it happens!
