I remember when I first saw the fugly beast of a system that is the DS FAT. i was pretty late to the party though with getting only a DSi. revolutionary system for sure! truly a "developer's system". My first games were Super Mario 64 DS, Pac Pix and Project Rub. Inferior in every way by todays standards but back then I was laughing at how I was touching the screen and blowing at the screen to control the game. Share: Comments ) Feeling old right now D: HAPY BIRTHDAY! You rock DS (even though I waited for the lite). Check out our for a full review of the most successful portable games system of all time. Happy birthday DS, you're a special part of Nintendo's history. Perhaps most importantly for us, though, the DS developed an outstanding library of games. Beyond ridiculous sales success, the DS established a lucrative - and vitally important - new platform for Nintendo, which has now continued with the success for the 3DS though the successor won't match the DS sales, it has performed well in a hugely competitive market that (as suggested above) owes at least some debt to Nintendo's first dual-screen innovation. The success of the DS family truly is extraordinary the 'family' from the original to the DSi XL has sold 154.01 million systems, easily the most successful portable gaming console of all time - amazingly the DS Lite accounted for over 93 million of those sales. The DSi would arrive with a more powerful CPU and add the DSi Shop, which through DSiWare introduced Nintendo's first portable download game store a range of DSi XL systems rounded off the family before the successor, 3DS, arrived in 2011. That model became a viral phenomenon, drawing in many gamers that were perhaps new to the hobby, very much laying the foundation for what would become an increasingly powerful smart device gaming market. Though the original DS had a chunky and partly mocked design, the DS Lite's emergence along with key 'Touch Generation' software propelled that redesign to stratospheric heights it's easily the biggest selling of the various models. on Though it signalled the beginning of the end for the Game Boy family, Nintendo's decision to move onto a new brand - described at the time as meaning both 'dual screens' and 'developer's system' - proved to be a masterstroke. Few will forget the E3 reveal of the DS by Reggie Fils-Aime, and its clamshell / dual screen design was a surprise after the sustained success of the Game Boy brand touch screen gaming was also, in 2004, an innovative idea. Anniversary: The Nintendo DS is Now 10 Years Old Nintendo Life Went from baby phat to slim by Share: It's a big day for the original DS, as it's 10 years to the day since the first model in the iconic family of systems - commonly referred to as the 'phat' - arrived in North America.
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