My GBA slot isn't going anywhere because I'm sticking with the DS Lite!

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I love my GBA games and I still buy them - most recently Guardian Advance Heroes. And I only got into them when I brought my DS. So a big part of the DS' appeal will be lost with the missing slot.

My opinion is pretty much entrenched now: I won't buy that new DS.

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This is the opposite of what I wanted. I was hoping for a DS plus of sorts with backwards compatability with even GB games. No GBA slot might be a deal breaker.

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I'm sticking with my DS Lite. No need to upgrade yet. Hell, I went from a GBC to the DS. I skipped over the GBA.

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GBA-Micro and PSP are my handhelds of choice...yeah, I've got a DS (Phat), but other than Zelda, Super Mario RPG's I haven't got that much use out of it...

I'm currently at 98 hours on Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the GBA!

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I have a number of GBA games but I hardly play them anymore as I have all these DS games to play. I was thinking of picking up GH:OT but now I must reconsider. GH:OT is $50 and if the DSi is relesed early 2009 then I will be saving that $50 for the DSi if it looks to be a good upgrade.

I am interested in the music capabilities as my MP3 player will be in need of replacing soon. If I can save that money for the DSi and get a good player at the same time, i will be a happy player. Does anyone know about SD card slots? Are they used to expand the memory of the system as in more memory for music?

Also about the SD slot will that give the DSi PDA like abilities?

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Yeah, Guitar Hero DS players get shafted. But don't forget about Pal Park in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, which allows you to port Pokemon straight from your GBA cartridge to your DS game. Really boneheaded move considering that Pokemon is one of the Big N's biggest franchises on DS. =/

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eh... doesn't bug me too much. After GBA, I kinda switched to PSP for several years until I finally bought a DS lite earlier this year. So I've misplaced most of my GBA games. And I still play my PSP more often than my DS anyway.

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It too early to tell if loosing the slot will be a deal breaker. The slot is a easy way to connect external stuff like the controllers or like the control for that one DSLR camera.

Actual unless there something else. Just not fired up over this. Just adding a lot of ram but not increasing screen rez or cpu speed will mean the browser will be like the PSP. Nice but usless for anythign but the store.

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Don't care. I have two DMG-001s, an ice blue game boy pocket, a game boy color, two GBAs, and my current Lite. Looking to get a DS fat, gold game boy light and famicom GBAmicro, so I'll probably buy this one around next summer, pretty sure i got backwards-compatibility covered, haha. (I'm a chiptune artist and started collect consoles because of it).

For those complaining, you can find a GBA for like 10 bucks on ebay or at a flea market, what's the big deal?

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The GBA slot was taking up space anyway. However, I'm not so sure that refilling that space with 2 cameras is the route that I would have chosen. Any way a portable VC and DS Ware sound cool to me. Bring on the Megaman 9 DS!!

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Its a bad thing! No Guitar Hero!!!! :[

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It seems like the new ds is inferior to the old one. I bought my DS as gaming platform. The new DS seems to be more of a PDA. I think the people who buy the new DS over the current one are the same people who buy brain age, cooking mama, and other casual garbage. . .

I wish that Nintendo would do more with the GBA slot like have DS games that give you bonuses for having the right GBA game in the slot and they need more games that support rumble.

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So they've replaced the GBA slot with a dollar store digital camera, a subpar browser, and limited music playback? No thanks. I'd expect to see those features in a cheap plastic shell shaped like a Mickey Mouse head.

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Looks neat, and I imagine with the camera they are planning more mii style games where you can put your face on the character or something, but there goes my home brewing for me. I'm a fan of supercard lite but now with the gba slot gone it would be all but useless if i choose to upgrade/a generous family member decides to upgrade for me come birthmass or what not.

My biggest complaint is that I will not likly be able to play aria of sorrow of megaman zero on the DSi. I like my portable gaming to mean carrying as minimal of an amount of things as possible, thus with this system, as i do not have a wii, I'll be limited to ds carts which i only have a few of to start with. Now I imagine that Nintendo Points will also be available from new ds games, but as one who might purchase one or two games a year, I'm left in the dark.

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Depends, does it have a rumble pack?

I have almost played no GBA titles and I don't have a rumble pack but I don't know, personally I think the GBA thing is a huge benefit actually. And since I have a flash cart I can already use it as audio player and have an SD-slot.

I guess it depends on what Nintendo will use those for.

If it's 0.25" bigger screen vs GBA support I'd say I'd rather have GBA support.

I don't know if there is any decent GBA emulators for the NDS? I guess there have been no need for them until now.

This could had been made to get rid of GBA code at all and therefor kill flashcart solutions if it wasn't that they identify as a real NDS game now, so it won't help for any slot-1 solutions.

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I have to say that this might be one of the worst upgrade model ever in the sense that it will completely split the DS audience in two.

On the one side, we will have DS Lite games which will require the GBA slot (and not only for GBA games) but, for example, Guitar Hero and other games that use the rumble pak. Nintendo should know that Guitar Hero can bring a lot of gamers to the system, and by getting rid of the GBA slot in the DSi they force these users to have a DS Lite instead of a DSi.

On the other hand, the DSi will lead to the development of new games that will use the camera or music playback capabilities, as well as the online store functions. These games will not be fully-playable on DS Lite, leading to a lot of confusion from buyers (especially parents) who will have to make sure that the games they are buying are compatible with the system they own (and it can be confusing!!).

What Nintendo seems to be saying is that instead of upgrading to the DSi, you should get BOTH a DS Lite and a DSi...

Personally, I would have preferred for the DSi to keep the DS Lite size (going from a 3.0-inch to a 3.5-inch screen is not a great gain), the GBA slot and include all the new features (for the critics, both cameras are nowhere close to the GBA slot, and the SD card reader could integrated with that GBA slot using an adapter).

This obviously is not well-thought from Nintendo and sounds like the firm rushed into it when it saw the sales of it DS Lite weaken in Japan.

A owner of all portable systems developed by Nintendo, it's the first time since 1991 that I am disappointed with Nintendo.

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Looks like I'll need to get myself a new SP whenever I finally get this. But I just got a new Lite, that of which if it (or a later replacement for it) is still alive at the time this comes out, I'll wait.

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