Possible names for the succesor of GBA

[Old Man Rupee]

Nintendo have recently registered these initials with their trademarking office, and one of them will (probably) be selected as the initials of the name of the next Game Boy System (erk! What terrible grammer I have!).
Which do you like the look of best? And what do you think they stand for?

[The Almighty Narf]

XGB sounds interesting.... The question is, why are they trademarking initials instead of actual names?

[mrfindlay]

Each Nintendo system has a three-character code that I think is used for production reasons, so I guess it is best to register them first.

Here's what Nintendo past systems have used (to the best of my memory): -
Nintendo Entertainment System = NES
Game boy = DMG
Super Nintendo Entertainment System = SNS
Virtual Boy = VUE
Nintendo 64 = NUS
Gameboy Colour = CGB
Gameboy Advance = AGB
Gamecube = DOL

I'm probably missing some and there are regional differences but as you can see the code doesn't always link up to the final name.

[The Almighty Narf]

Then GBE is probably the mostly likely one to be used as "GameBoy Evolution" is the current code-name.

[Fryguy64]

I use these codes for the site's filing system. I will give a quick run through of what I've found out they stand for and give you some regional variations:

NES - Nintendo Entertainment System. In Japan the Famicom's code is HVC, or Home Video Console.
SNS - Super Nintendo System. In Japan the Super Famicom's code is SHVC. I'll let you work that one out.
DMG - Dot Matrix Game. This is, of course, the Game Boy. The Game Boy uses dot-matrix technology.
VUE - Virtual Ultra Eye. Picked this odd name up from a Japanese website. Apparently this was a working title for the Virtual Boy.
NUS - Nintendo Ultra Sixtyfour - Some of us may even remember the old "Ultra 64" logo from the N64's promotional material. Ahh sweet.
CGB - Color Game Boy. Easy enough.
AGB - Advanced Game Boy. Again 'nuff said.
DOL - Dolphin. This was the working title for the Gamecube. Many latter-day N64 games make allusions to dolphins, as do many Gamecube games.

What could the rest of these Game Boy ones stand for?
GBD - Game Boy Dream (Lame), Game Boy Dancing (!?)
GBE - Game Boy Evolution (Suggested, good)
GBN - Game Boy Nintendo (Yawn), Game Boy Nooninoo (Whee!)
DGB - Doctor Game Boy (For all your medical needs)
EGB - Exciting Game Boy (duh), Extraterrestrial Game Boy (Ooooh)
TGB - Titillating Game Boy (matron!), Test Game Boy
WGB - Wacky Game Boy (I want one), Wario's Game Boy (give it back)
XGB - X-Game-Box (Err...), Xtreme Game Boy (I didn't know NST was into naming consoles!)

That was fun, let's do it again some time.

[Jay]

a couple missing...

MGB: Game Boy Pocket/Game Boy Light
AGS: Gameboy Advance SP
NTR: Nintendo DS

Games for the MGB still say DMG as obviously they are still just gameboy games. same with AGB/AGS, altho some accessories will use MGB or AGS if they are designed specifically for that hardware.

and my SNES says SNSP... maybe its a uk thing with the 'P' being for PAL?

slightly off-topic, i would quite like to see a hardware/accessory list of all the nintendo consoles on ninty db. i am writing one myself if you'd be interested fryguy..?

[The Almighty Narf]

Jay said:

NTR: Nintendo DS

So, "Nitro" lives on, eh?

Does this mean the intials for the next Nintendo system will be "REV" or "RVL" or something like that...

[Fryguy64]

NTR, that's interesting! I was wondering about that

I would be interested in lists at the moment, but as for actual content, that can wait. Obviously only Nintendo official products will do... and all over the world would be nice. I have some good reference lists for serial codes on NES, SNES, N64 and GB already, but they're all in Japan (though they do have some US and PAL ones).

Sorry, I forgot SNSP was what it is over here.

[magna17]

how about entering a suggestion my friend made
GBP=game boy power-up

[Fryguy64]

How about the Game Boy Don't Bump Dead Threads From Six Months Ago! Yeah, that's catchy