the age of the gba allows for more sales total as is. plus for how long it's been out gives it a huge user base. plus the backwards compatability for the old games is nice. to say the gba is better, i can possibly go with that, but not the Cube. i'm a fighting game/rpg nut and it doesn't have it for me.
gba is a great system, but it still has loads of crap games like the ps2.
and c'mon BV, to say that 'so we don't have to deal with that much 3rd party crap', you know that line isn't good argumentively, just because, with the crap, comes very good stuff as well. the fact is, the lack of 3rd party is a hurt, not a gain.
and from what my friends say, the mgs remake wasn't that good :-\