Cause it's a ripoff:] I might be slightly of topic here, but why did Nintendo create the DS anyway? IMHO, it will seem like excessive, misplaced marketing to business analysts, a curiosity to hardcore gamers and the "finger" to consumers, who have only just brought a GBA. Resources spent to develop games for the DS could have been used to strengthen the market lead of the GBA, in the face of a technically superior competitor. Now Nintendo have fragmented their own market... and a fragmented market, is also an open one. Such conditions can be ideal for such a well thought out consumer product, like the PSP...
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Cause it's a ripoff :] I might be slightly of topic here, but why did Nintendo create the DS anyway? IMHO, it will seem like excessive, misplaced marketing to business analysts, a curiosity to hardcore gamers and the "finger" to consumers, who have only just brought a GBA. Resources spent to develop games for the DS could have been used to strengthen the market lead of the GBA, in the face of a technically superior competitor. Now Nintendo have fragmented their own market... and a fragmented market, is also an open one. Such conditions can be ideal for such a well thought out consumer product, like the PSP...