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The GBA's lighting does suck. It's not as bad with newer games, but as the SP becomes standard, I wouldn't be surprised if future titles aren't designed with the original GBA's inferiority in mind.

I'm a little bitter that they released the SP and aren't offering some sort of trade-in option, but the real reason I think the whole thing is so shady is their timing: Nintendo announced the GBA SP the first week of January or something. I'd be a lot more pissed if I was one of those people who bought/received the GBA for Christmas and then found out a week later that the model that should've been released in the first place would be out shortly, and Nintendo kept hush hush about it just to milk the holiday season.

But all in all I don't think Nintendo's business practices are fucking the consumer up the ass more than any other corporation.