The project was reannounced three years later as "Mother 3" for the Game Boy Advance alongside a combined "Mother 1 + 2" cartridge for the same handheld console. Itoi had been working on porting "Mother" and "Mother 2" to the Game Boy Advance, and based on encouragement what he predicted to be further pressure, decided to release "Mother 3". The new "Mother 3" abandoned the Nintendo 64 version's 3D graphics, but kept its plot. The game was developed by Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory, published by Nintendo, and released in Japan on April 20, 2006, whereupon it became a bestseller. It did not receive a North American release on the basis that it would not sell.