I've only had two issues with my GBA:
1. The screen has absolutely no scratch resistance.
2. Speaker placement.
Fuck it, however, as I'm enough of a homebody to warrant picking up the GBA-GC Player when it hits.
As for the major console wars, I lost interest when SEGA gave up. Reminds me of that commercial comparing game libraries between the SNES and the Genesis, with the brick walls at the end.
The war had class back then, now it's
whack, yo.