It was all good when the Big N had the portable console race locked down, but now everybody seems to believe that they can challenge Nintendo, even Nintendo is challenging their own product, which is ridiculous. Don't belive them when they say "The DS is not going to be competition for the GBA" yeah right. It's a portable console one and it is backwards compatible. I don't think they have plans for phasing it out, but watch how fast EBgames starts their trade in your GBA and 3 games to get the DS for $79.99. Personally I don't see anything wrong with the GBA, especially the SP the games are pretty good and affordable, not that DS games will be outrageously priced, but I don't see the point. Maybe they got scared because of the PSP and N-Gage, well after the rumors started flying from TGS about a $250.00 price tag or dare I say 350.00 price tag and only 2-3 hours of battery life? You've got to be kidding me. Don't get me wrong I love the PSP concept but for that price I need more from it than what they are offering, the movies are a nice touch, but who's going to buy movies for their PSP and their DVD player? If you do your foolish. While I think the DS and the PSP will have mild success, the GBA will still be king of the mountain after the intial 6 months, that is until a price drop. Nintendo should have waited until after the PSP launch to see if another portable was even needed, but instead they continue their long running trend of bad hardware decisions and decided to jump the gun. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and there was nothing broke about the GBA.