11th August 2003, 3:06 PM
The GBA never had any real competition. The Game Gear was probably the biggest competitor to the Gameboy, and that failed because of the terrible battery life. Sony knows this and they're going to do whatever it takes to seriously compete with Nintendo, and I doubt that they will fail. The installed userbase(is that one word or two?) of the GBA doesn't really matter since the PSP will be the next-generation of handheld gaming systems. It's like saying that the N5 is doomed to fail because of the incredibly large userbase of the PS2, or that the PSX should have failed because of the SNES's large userbase.