Gameboy's End

Not too surprising. I'm not thrilled about how the overall turnout of the GBA turned out-mostly 1st party ports of great previous hits and a couple 3rd party gems amidst a bunch of licensed junk. Compared to most of the legitimately new 1st party games, good-looking 3rd party games, combined with the new touch screen and overall boost in graphics and sound, the DS is a more than worthy successor to the Gameboy line.

Still, one would have to wonder where GBA would be had Nintendo come up with New Super Mario Brothers for it, instead of porting its' entire backlog of Mario games. Or if Nintendo had supported it with anything noteworthy over the past 18 months.

Oh well, at least we're getting some decent RPG's late in the GBA's life, mostly thanks to Atlus (Summon Night series, Robot Wars, Yggdra and Mother 3 from Nintendo and FFVI Advance).

Double Post:

Originally Posted by Solis

I just wish games didn't cost so much on it. Mario 64 DS is still $30 after nearly two years? Console games aren't that expensive after being out for that long! It's cheaper than PSP games, but it still seems like there should be some decent budget games by now.

A steady $20 line of good games is something Nintendo can really use. Especially against the line-up of $40-$50 PSP games.

Still, there are some titles coming out at lower prices...Cooking Mama is supposed to debut at a $20 price point and the Brain Age games are already going for that. I believe Meteos has also dropped to the $20 price point. Plus the Mario Kart bundle is pretty sweet, since the game basically comes out to $20 when everything's tallied up (though the packaging is a crappy cardboard foldout instead of the usual DS box) I found Feel the Magic for a cool $11.99 used at Gamestop.

Now that Nintendo doesn't have a handheld monopoly, I'd say look for more competitive prices on games in the future.

Then again, Mario 64 was still going for $30-$40 new even at the end of the N64's lifecycle...

Jam it back in, in the dark.