The Game Boy-DS
By Ryan Block 
posted December 4th 2005 8:00AM
posted December 4th 2005 8:00AM
It's nice to look and see how far we've come, but c'mon, sometimes we get a little nostalgic for the good old days
too.
[Via Engadget Japanese]
Dead link on the image...
I agree completely with Mr. Nuclear.
I'm all about the gaming aspect.. and Nintendo is just good wholesome FUN!!! But to each their own... some people like the RPG's that take forever to complete.. some people want the good old Atari Pac-man Namco games.
just so people know my post was taken away.
( not you Matt, : ) it was for some idiot boy who goes by the name of : dDS IS SHITT SHITT SHTTTTTT, his message was taken off).
PEACE OUT good folks : )
Is it real or just a skin??
You're right on Matt... I know a guy who spends 99% of his PSP time playing SNES emulated games... DS is the shiznit.
never mind I'm a dummy :P
From #16, David: "The REASON Nintendo bothered to come out with the DS is because Sony scared them a bit. How can you say the PSP is same old same old...?"
I disagree, if Nintendo had wanted to compete with the PSP head-on they would've rushed an all new souped up GameBoy to the market. Instead, they brought a handheld with two screens, one of them being a touchscreen that could interact with a stylus. The DS is/was widely regarded as a wild proposition and I just don't see Nintendo taking such liberal risks in the handheld market.
Now there is no question that the PSP forced Nintendo to rush the DS to market. If I'm not mistaken, Nintendo was looking at creating the next Gameboy but one of the hardware designers (forget his name) started thinking about new features and it was then decided that it would probably be going too far with a Gameboy and so they called it the DS and it represented a so called "third pillar".
Now what's weird here is how quickly Nintendo decided to bring about the system. They announced out of the blue in January of 2004, introduced it (along with some games and tech demos) at E3 that year, and finally released it in November of 2004. I don't know if Nintendo has announced, shown it, and released an all new gaming system that quickly (certainly not within one year). It certainly looks very odd compared to how they have handled their consoles.
Hmm brings back some memories of the old black and white gameboy screen.Compared to the PSP, the gameboy is just a little TOO old school for me.