'when will it totally die?'--I say by next xmas systems won't be on shelves, and any games a store has will be very dusty.
there have recently been some *very* good games for it, but gone are the days of 5-6 releases a week, and most of the big software developers have moved on.
It's really a shame, but it's still a fact that it's winding down. They've sold enough of the things to the point where there's probably more GBA's out there than any other console/handheld in the last few generations. but flashy new hardware drives everybody on to the next new thing, and the games will always come out where the money is. It will cost less and less to produce games for it, and the odds of seeing oddball small shops making games (like mazes of fate) goes up, but even that wave is pretty well over.
usually, though the 'next new handheld' is more interesting than psp/ds/gp2x--which each have some good games, but I still think that gba's simple, compact hardware and wealth of titles make it a superior system even today. there's also a chance that gba's holding on has managed to hurt DS a bit.
there have recently been some *very* good games for it, but gone are the days of 5-6 releases a week, and most of the big software developers have moved on.
It's really a shame, but it's still a fact that it's winding down. They've sold enough of the things to the point where there's probably more GBA's out there than any other console/handheld in the last few generations. but flashy new hardware drives everybody on to the next new thing, and the games will always come out where the money is. It will cost less and less to produce games for it, and the odds of seeing oddball small shops making games (like mazes of fate) goes up, but even that wave is pretty well over.
usually, though the 'next new handheld' is more interesting than psp/ds/gp2x--which each have some good games, but I still think that gba's simple, compact hardware and wealth of titles make it a superior system even today. there's also a chance that gba's holding on has managed to hurt DS a bit.