It is arduous to consider that it is been two decades because the Nintendo DS introduced, but right here we’re. It is been even longer because it used to be published too, with the newly-appointed VP of gross sales and advertising and marketing Reggie Fils-Aimé taking to the level at E3 2004 to show off Nintendo’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for hand held gaming.
We all know now, after all, that the console clutched in Reggie’s palms used to be an insignificant prototype. On the time, on the other hand, so far as many potential consumers have been involved, this used to be it. This used to be going to be the Nintendo DS that may finish up in hundreds of thousands of houses around the globe.
As such, many were not too willing at the glance of the tool, with Reggie himself mentioning that “other people perceived the design to be clunky and inexpensive” in his memoir, Disrupting the Sport. It did not lend a hand that Sony had published the PSP the similar 12 months, and with its massive, shiny, single-screen design it used to be immediately perceived as a trendy, top class product.
However used to be the DS prototype actually so unsightly? On this humble author’s opinion, no, it wasn’t.
