Dual Layer DVD reccomendation?

[Wombat]

I do. By then DVDs will be over 10 years old. Also, consider this: The Nintendo Gameboy was the #1 portable from 1989 until 1999 or so. Then the GBA came out and reigned for just over half as long. Now we have the PSP and the DS.

I never had a GBA, but didn't it also play original GB games? And doesn't the DS play GBA games?

[Gurm]

The DS plays all the way back to the original gameboy.

And I'd hardly say that the DS or PSP "rule" right now. Neither one has achieved astonishing market penetration, each has a mere handful of native games. The PSP isn't even being marketed to the same market segment. I have yet to see a 10 year old toting around a PSP or DS, and likely won't anytime soon.

[Kooldino]

I never had a GBA, but didn't it also play original GB games? And doesn't the DS play GBA games?

Yup, just like BD, etc will probably play DVD. But the point remains that technology standards anymore are more short lived than ever.

[Kooldino]

The DS plays all the way back to the original gameboy.

And I'd hardly say that the DS or PSP "rule" right now. Neither one has achieved astonishing market penetration, each has a mere handful of native games. The PSP isn't even being marketed to the same market segment. I have yet to see a 10 year old toting around a PSP or DS, and likely won't anytime soon.

The DS and the PSP are the new "standard". The GBA is on the way out. I guarantee you that it won't enjoy the lifespan that it's predecessor did.

[Gurm]

The DS and the PSP are the new "standard". The GBA is on the way out. I guarantee you that it won't enjoy the lifespan that it's predecessor did.

Ha! Haha! HA!

*ahem*

You don't have kids, do you?

As a parent, I can pretty much categorically say that NOBODY is buying their 8-year-old a Nintendo DS (oh there will be a few, the same people that buy their junior-high-age kids iPods). The GBA enjoys the "kiddie market" niche, and there is as yet NO replacement for it in that market other than the GBA:SP.