Double the screens, double the fun.
When Nintendo announced the DS in the mid-2000s, it claimed the device would be a ‘third pillar’ alongside its GameCube home console and its Game Boy family of portables. This admission alone shows just how leftfield the dual-screen handheld was; even its creator wasn’t sure that the general public would fully embrace touch-based control. How ironic, then, that the Nintendo DS would go on to become the company’s most commercially successful hardware platform, with over 154.02 million units sold.
The DS arguably introduced an entire generation to the principle of a touch-based interface, paving the way for the smartphone revolution that would occur a few years after its 2004 launch, yet its design was steeped in history; the twin-display, clamshell approach mimicked the Donkey Kong Game & Watch LCD handheld from 1982. This cunning fusion of the past with the future created the ultimate portable gaming platform, one which managed to outsell the technically superior Sony PSP by doing something totally different to what had come before.
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Double the screens, double the fun.
When Nintendo announced the DS in the mid-2000s, it claimed the device would be a ‘third pillar’ alongside its GameCube home console and its Game Boy family of portables. This admission alone shows just how leftfield the dual-screen handheld was; even its creator wasn’t sure that the general public would fully embrace touch-based control. How ironic, then, that the Nintendo DS would go on to become the company’s most commercially successful hardware platform, with over 154.02 million units sold.
The DS arguably introduced an entire generation to the principle of a touch-based interface, paving the way for the smartphone revolution that would occur a few years after its 2004 launch, yet its design was steeped in history; the twin-display, clamshell approach mimicked the Donkey Kong Game & Watch LCD handheld from 1982. This cunning fusion of the past with the future created the ultimate portable gaming platform, one which managed to outsell the technically superior Sony PSP by doing something totally different to what had come before.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
