GBA Death Countdown

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#1 happy_fizzle999
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How long do you think before the GBA completely dies out? I give it until halfway through 2008 or if its lucky 2009 before its completely dead(as in they dont sell games anymore).I hope it lasts longer cause I still have to get FF4-6 and I will be very POed if they stop selling them before i have them.(if they do they had better make them for DS) What do you think? Any Predictions?

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#2 T-Prime
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The GBA won't make it out of 2007. I love my GBA, but it's an unnecessary pillar at this point.
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#3 Leu-kun
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Dude, the GBA will never die, meanwhile you play it... it never will
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#4 StarFoxCOM
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GBA will die in 07.
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#5 deadninja_com
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first up just ebay any games that you can't get. There is a chance those games you want will be gone way before the gba dies. It just has to do with print run and what is new and hot. i give the gba at least one more year until the next gameboy line pops out - unless they think the ds will take it over. but that just seems weird.
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#6 camreeno360
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Remember, the GBA is still selling a buttload to the younger audience. Yes, most of us older guys are starting to leave the machine (not me), but it's still selling millions believe it or not. It'll die by 2009 anyway.
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#7 cdko
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unless they remake chrono trigger for the gba and some other incredible classics then maybe it could last to 2009. i love my gba sp and to think it's only a few years till it won't receive any games is kind of depressing. a new mario, zelda, chrono trigger and a remake of pokemon yellow, gold, silver and crystal will definately keep it rolling to 2010 at least. it still hap potential dammit:cry:

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#8 cdko
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my bad. has* potential
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#9 mariokart64fan
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i say 2010, it has most of its audience still , theres games coming and like gb it can last as long as ppl keep buying it
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#10 _great_waddles_
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Never. A console never truley dies, as long as its being played by someone. Although there will basically be no new good games, the GBA will live on for a while. Just because developers dont make games, doesnt mean to forget all the good games that have been released over the, what, six years.

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#11 ironman12
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gba forever

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#12 happy_fizzle999
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Hope it last fairly long so i can FF4-6 without going on Ebay. A console cant live off of spongebob games and disney princess and other eaqually crappy games so I dont think itll last much longerIMO.
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#13 _great_waddles_
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^ You cant really say that because a system has no new (or, atleast, good) games, that its dead. The Atari 2600 is dead. The NES, however, isn't.

The only way a system dies is if it had no good, memorable games. If the system is notorius for horrible games, and can truely be forgotten, then it dies. Back to what I said earlier, the Atari 2600 stinks (the ET game, need I say more?), while, the NES had great games (Metroid, Zelda, Mario... Need I say more?).

The GBA has had both its fair share of good games, and, its fair share of games that were bad, due to the fact that its easier to make games for (or, so it seems. Not being a game developer, I dont really know). The good games get a lot more attention then the bad, and, because so, the GBA will live on forever. I bet, 500 years from now, people will be finding ancient, yet still functioning GBA carts and play them on ancient GBAs or something. Let the people from 500 years from now decide. :P

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#14 Sw0rDMaN
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GBA is already dead go buy  a DS now
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#15 Younggun135
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lol i still have a GBC and i still play it once and a while.. but mosty my ds...

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#16 Tejer2
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I think they will just make a better version of the gameboy again, but I dont really know. I dont think the DS will take over, as it doesnt make sense that it plays advanced games and they stop making them. They will either make DS the main, and continue selling GBA games, or else there will be some sort of new updated nintendo handheld which could either be another better gameboy, or else some new nextgen handheld.
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#17 armytaco
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Unless you have played every good game for GBA it will still be worth having. I would play all its games then it will eventually stop selling but it won't necisarily " die".
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#18 sk8erboi796
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GBA will die in 07.StarFoxCOM
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#19 Valmar76
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I think that the GBA could live forever if Nintendo wills it so! All hail Nintendo!
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#20 baggy20
Member since 2006 • 141 Posts
You guys are so messed serisously stop making threads like this there have been 100's of the same thing just use that thread.....we don't need hundreds of "The Death of the GBA"
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#21 wingribman
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It was pretty revolutionary as handhelds go but I think itll die out in 08
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#22 GrandSlasher26
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Well pals if i am not mistaken i have heard right here in gamespot the official announcement from nintendo officials that they think gba will last one more season or two, i am from india so i am not sure what does season means, but i think it might end within 2007, but i think gba is good cause of its games, i am playing summon night 2, robot war 2 and looking forward to play ff6 advance.
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#23 justiceboy13
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it pretty much is already dead.
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#24 The_AI
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Death countdown?  Freaking bullcrap!  As long as a Nintendo portable has a BC slot on a portable that holds GBA games, the GBA will never die.