| Wonktonodi said: what year was the DS anounced? because I'm sure lases of DS ate into sales of the GBA after all the ds could play all the games on it. So I'm sure many just skipped the advanced and went to the DS. Neither of the first two years the DS is on the Market match what GBA did in it's first. It then when down (i'm thinking the anoucment of the DS helped this drop) until it was all the DS I don't think it would have been as big as the DS is but still much bigger than it was. |
Was officially mentioned in late 2003 before getting a name early 2004. Wasn't officially shown, though, until E3 2004. However, in Japan, GBA was already fading by then. However, it might have hurt potential American sales, which as I stated, was a strong area for the GBA and kept DS back for awhile.
