Anyone Remember How Much Nintendo Crapped On the GBA?

The GBA treated Nintendo VERY well in its life span, coming out with 4 versions? (GBA, GBASP, GBA super bright screen version, GBAMicro) Then when the DS came out, Nintendo was like " dont worry fellas, the DS is the third pillar, its not gonna replace the GBA ever!" well... its been a few years now, and the GBA is pretty much dead...

who here as some good memories of the GBA to share and totally wants another Game Boy to come out?

The gba is one of my favourite consoles and my favourite handheld (although I'm fond of my PSP)
The colours were vibrant and I finished almost every game I own for it.
Especially Golden Sun, Yoshi's Island, Mario Kartand the Castlevania's will remain in my gaming memory.

GBA was awesome. Ahh... nostalgia.

Crapped on it? More like fed off it.

ive just bought a gba micro, and i love it. i bought it for golden sun and sword of mana, but as of yet i still havent picked them up yet. but astro boy and wario land are more then tiding me over till i do get them. only things is i want a black faceplate, where the hell do you buy them from ? and please dont tell me the nintendo website because they dont ship to the UK. i read that they were gonna release loads of them for the micro. but i cant find any.

Nintendo tried to keep the GBA, alive why else would they come out with a bright screen and a micro. The developers and gamers just moved on to the next thing. it seems the gba took a slide in game flow in 06 when the ds and psp hit thier stride.

Really it depends on the consumer more then the developer on how long a console will stick around. Pretty much everyone moved to DS so the demand moved to games for that platform.

I still love GBA though. Golden Sun, Fire Emblem and the Castlevania still get some play these days.....

....just on my DS:P.

ive just bought a gba micro, and i love it. i bought it for golden sun and sword of mana, but as of yet i still havent picked them up yet. but astro boy and wario land are more then tiding me over till i do get them. only things is i want a black faceplate, where the hell do you buy them from ? and please dont tell me the nintendo website because they dont ship to the UK. i read that they were gonna release loads of them for the micro. but i cant find any.

joesh89

The GBA advance became outdated quick with the release of the PSP and DS plus the DS could play GBA games. I would not mind a new Good GBA game, but even then they could just make it into a DS game.TheColbert

The Advance Wars and Pokemon games gave me absolute joy. GBA I adore you

i feel ya on this but hey look at the bright side at least the gameboy lasted and outsold pretty much any portable console since its release in 1989

I thought thew GBA was a great system, and relatively good for it's time I don't think Nintendo 'crapped' at all with this system. The game boy micro on the other hand... Nuff Said.Goobberzz

Yeah well maybe the PSP had something to do with shortening the GBA lifespan but honestly there was little doubt to me that the DS was simply going to to be the GBA's replacement. It just happened rather abruptly.

I don't know. From what I know DS stands for Developer's System, so I think the Nintendo DS was an attempt at a different set of games the GBA couldn't play, but developers still made games the GBA could play for the DS, so the DS just took over completely.

Personally I REALLY hope they bring back the Gameboy name. Obviously there won't ever be two handheld systems from Nintendo, so just go back to Gameboy, and everyone will love you again :)

At least Gameboy was a franchise name whereas the Nintendo DS doesn't really have a franchise name other than the company + 2 letters

They should have kept the DS as a second pillar.

Developers would rather release games for the DS than the GBA, its just the way things are. You can't have two different handhelds going strong at the same time. Arguing the namesake is kinda' silly in my opinion, it doesn't change anything hardware-wise or how good the handheld is.

It's time was up and the DS has done a brilliant job of filling it's spot. It's been pitted against hardware which on a technical stand-point is better, yet it has provided a catelogue of games which is arguably better despite it's restrictions. (Despite the "shovelware" too)

Developers would rather release games for the DS than the GBA, its just the way things are. You can't have two different handhelds going strong at the same time. Arguing the namesake is kinda' silly in my opinion, it doesn't change anything hardware-wise or how good the handheld is.

It's time was up and the DS has done a brilliant job of filling it's spot. It's been pitted against hardware which on a technical stand-point is better, yet it has provided a catelogue of games which is arguably better despite it's restrictions. (Despite the "shovelware" too)

EquiIibrium

I think it had a very good life span. The GBA is one of my favorite systems way too may great games to count but if the DS keeps it up it will surpass it as my favorite handheld.

The GBA was a good handheld. It had a lot of good games.

I think it had a pretty good lifespan. There were a lot of great games for it and it was pretty much a portable SNES. :D

Minish Cap, AW1 and 2 andMetroid Fusion were awesome.

I play those games even to this day.