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it was not a remade SNES. that's what people assume but the GBA was a powerful little guy. and had some decent 3d capabilities that were solid for the time.
and it was backwards compatible with the original gameboy carts that pushed it to being extremely popular. and the library for it was massive as well.
I think the number of games ported over from the 16 bit era gives that impression. GBA didn't even get it's own Mario game, they just released the All-Stars versions of classic games, which I get was super cool at the time but still.
But yes, GBA was a very capable machine. GBA could run Doom with a smooth framerate, SNES couldn't. Not to mention the stuff like Driv3r, Asterix or even GTA Advance.
I'm well aware that it's an arm7 device and hence different. However what it was directed at and done with it resulted in being as I said.
Vrally some other games do impressive things, I agree.
If we’re considering backwards compatibility, then the DS should have won. Because it could do everything the GBA could, and more.
I don't think the DS could play original game boy carts, could it? if I am misremembering I'm gonna be mad for the me that didn't know that when I got a DS. lol
Nah it couldn’t, the DS only supported its own and GBA cartridges.