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I'd call it dead I guess, but I don't see why that's a problem. It's a physical product, you can't keep manufacturing those forever. They supported it until the next generation of consoles came out. Would it be fair to make a site called "Killed by Nintendo" and list the Game Boy and Wii?

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Yes. They could release the specs if they wanted to. They choose not to so they're, at the very least, letting it die.

I'm not offering judgment on whether they ought or ought not to, I'm merely observing that they have power and are exercising it as they choose.

Also, it's still being sold as a product to the one market where it really was popular (researchers and hobby enthusiasts). That's not quite the same thing as being dead.

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