Nintendo's Press Conference

[Great Rumbler]

Sony knows this and they're going to do whatever it takes to seriously compete with Nintendo, and I doubt that they will fail.

I don't think it'll fail [meaning it goes under after about a year] either. But, I think at this point to say that the GB is doomed is a bit of a stretch.

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.

Depending on when Nintendo releases the succesor to the GBA it could be in direct competition with the PSP for some time. The PSX was never really in direct competition with the SNES because it had already hit its stride sometime back and was starting to fade out. Important note: The PSX didn't really take off until after the SNES was already gone and the N64 had stumbled.

Something Nitendo absolutely needs to do, wether they go with miniature DVDs or not, is to make the new GB backwards compatible with past GBs. Build on the success of the past, that's what Sony did with the PS2 and look where that got them.