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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