Nintendo DS: what does the DS stand for?
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It either stands for google or wikipedia, I'm not sure which.
Officially, "DS" doesn't stand for anything. However, it's clear that it has to mean "Dual Screen".
It stands for "Duuude, Sweet!"
The whole thing was a horrible marketing mistake that couldn't be corrected before the logo was put on everything. In competing with the "in your face" spirit of Sega, Nintendo had planned to roll out the system with the tag line - "It's Nintendo, dip $%^!"
It was also meant to co-exist with the GBA, yet that one disappeared completly...
Yup, Nintendo made sure that they had the safety net of saying it was a third platform incase it tanked. Also means that the "GameBoy" name was kept clean should that happen. It didn't, so they just let the GBA sink off the map.
When they get round to releasing a "DS 2", I think the GameBoy name'll be on it.
They sort of already have, and it doesn't. The DSi, with a camera in it and no GBA slot, has already come out in Japan.
Rii
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Nintendo released the GBA Micro following the DS, not a new generation though, no.
The Gameboy is dead unless Nintendo goes back to only a one screen system. The DSi doesn't even have a GBA slot. The better question is does the "I" mean anything besides the fact Nitnendo seems to love the "i" in Wii and now the DSi.
The DS was going to be called something else, the DS was the codename, like Dolphin was for Gamecube and Revolution was for the Wii. However Nintendo showed everyone what the DS was gonig to be like and never said the real name, so everyone called it the Nintendo DS and it stuck.
The DS was going to be called something else, the DS was the codename, like Dolphin was for Gamecube and Revolution was for the Wii. However Nintendo showed everyone what the DS was gonig to be like and never said the real name, so everyone called it the Nintendo DS and it stuck.
^This.
It was going to be the Nintendo "Nitro" hence the cartridges have the 'N' codes on them, but was displayed prior to its release under the temporary name "DS" short for Dual Screen, which just caught on and stuck as the name.
As for variants theres the "Phat" (nickname for the original), Lite and the new DSi.
Rii
Rear Admiral
It'd be difficult to do that after the success of the DS, it'd mean throwing backwards compatibility out the window and that's something Nintendo seems interested in preserving across the handheld lines. Sure, the latest DS variant doesn't support GBA titles, but it's not the only one on the market and they certainly stuck to their guns for the first four years. I suspect Nintendo's next handheld will be an evolution of the basic DS design.
Figures as much
"I" as in "eye", because it has a camera.
Does anyone have that picture of those Nintendo execs laughing while holding a DS that is spitting out money?
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