Why do the GBA forum goers hate the DS?

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#1 StealthedRogue
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I went into the GBA forums just a few minutes ago and the majority of threads end up bashing the DS because its "crap" or some other nonsense. I just thought it was kinda strange considering the DS is not much more expensive and can play GBA games to boot.

I just dont see a good reason for the hate, the biggest gripe was not being able to play GB and GBC games or being "So much more expensive", but seriously...

Any theories on that?

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#2 TankZorz
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They're just jealous.
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#3 StealthedRogue
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They're just jealous.TankZorz

Lol that was my initial theory, but it seems like a common bond amongst them =P. Just go take a look its sad.

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#4 ThePlothole
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Well, it has basically supplanted their system. More games are being developed for the DS now than the GBA.
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#6 LordAndrew
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Really? I dunno. Maybe they can't afford a DS? Poor guys.
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#8 cfamgcn
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Because of the DS there aren't any good games in development for the GBA...
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#9 XBASX
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Words from the lower class..
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#11 geo888
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because the ds killed the gba
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#12 geo888
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because the ds killed the gba
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#13 bernieberry
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The DS is replacing the GBA and maybe that has them all upset. Soon they won't even be making GBA games so maybe that is part of the reason????
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#15 Lafuigi
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Because their still playing the GBA! Na really its beacuse they can't afford the DS. Why is everyone repeating their replies?
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#16 Lafuigi
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Because their still playing the GBA! Na really its beacuse they can't afford the DS. Why is everyone repeating their replies?
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#17 ThePlothole
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Because their still playing the GBA! Na really its beacuse they can't afford the DS. Why is everyone repeating their replies?Lafuigi

That would be why. (See the bug forum.)

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#20 podliver
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Actually I love playing GBA games on my Micro just as much as I like playing my DS. The Micro brings me back to the old-school games and it's so tiny, I can carry it just about anywhere.
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#21 citrus_oranges
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because they dont have two screens? :x

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#22 LordelX
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The DS was supposed to be a" third pillar" in Nintendo's marketing stategy. Alot of people took that literally and didn't realize that Nntendo was basically saying, "if the DS doesn't work, we'll be bringing out a newer iteration of the Gameboy line." Well, the DS did work, so there is no good reason to continue the GBA line.

While I love the DS, I didn't like it as much as the GBA, probably because I'm more confortable with the standard control scheme. I would have prefered that I didn't have to draw magic symbols in Dawn of Sorrow, or that New Super Mario Bros. had come out on the GBA, since it doesn't use hardly any of the DS's special features.

But I'm getting more and more into the DS now. Brain Age is an incredible piece of software. Phantom Hourglass has proven to me that the touch screen is a viable control scheme when done properly. I think the first year or two of the DS yielded some pretty half-assed software, and that's where the bitterness comes from. The DS has really come into it's own now, and it's not an issue anymore.

Within the next two years a successor to the DS will be announced. Will the same thing happen? Will DS users call it down, like GBA users the DS? Seems silly to me.

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#23 ThePlothole
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While I love the DS, I didn't like it as much as the GBA, probably because I'm more confortable with the standard control scheme. I would have prefered that I didn't have to draw magic symbols in Dawn of Sorrow, or that New Super Mario Bros. had come out on the GBA, since it doesn't use hardly any of the DS's special features.

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It runs a 3D engine. That would have been difficult on the GBA.

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#24 LordAndrew
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The DS was supposed to be a" third pillar" in Nintendo's marketing stategy. Alot of people took that literally and didn't realize that Nntendo was basically saying, "if the DS doesn't work, we'll be bringing out a newer iteration of the Gameboy line." Well, the DS did work, so there is no good reason to continue the GBA line.

While I love the DS, I didn't like it as much as the GBA, probably because I'm more confortable with the standard control scheme. I would have prefered that I didn't have to draw magic symbols in Dawn of Sorrow, or that New Super Mario Bros. had come out on the GBA, since it doesn't use hardly any of the DS's special features.

But I'm getting more and more into the DS now. Brain Age is an incredible piece of software. Phantom Hourglass has proven to me that the touch screen is a viable control scheme when done properly. I think the first year or two of the DS yielded some pretty half-assed software, and that's where the bitterness comes from. The DS has really come into it's own now, and it's not an issue anymore.

Within the next two years a successor to the DS will be announced. Will the same thing happen? Will DS users call it down, like GBA users the DS? Seems silly to me.

LordelX

Fortunately, Konami realized that drawing seals on the screen was kind of dumb, and Portrait of Ruin doesn't have that feature.

But no, New Super Mario Bros. couldn't be done on the GBA. At least, not in 3D.

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#25 Dion2k7
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I still own both
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#26 lex_in_the_moon
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Let me take a guess... because their mad that the DS rules and brings old school RPG's back to life and they can't stand it. They're jealous.
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#27 inzaneetie013
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meh... they maybe jealous... but i love both systems. i'm still jealous my classmate has a gba sp and i have a ds. aahh the memories.... come to think of it, i think the gba has it time, its kinda sad its dying...
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#28 hack-shinobi
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Probably because the ds is making the gba die. :( :cry:

I used to love the gba but now that's dieing i can enjoy the gba games on the ds. I still like the gba though.

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#29 Goten_king
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Its not a GBA 2. In which we'd be playing GC quality games on the go.