The Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS is a well known dual-screen game console that can be hand held and was developed as well as manufactured by Nintendo. It was officially released in the year 2004 in places like Canada, the States and Japan. This is one game console that features a sort of clamshell like design and this design is kind of similar to the Game Boy Advance SP. The console also is equipped with a couple of LCD screens that are situated inside of the console and the bottom one is a touch screen.
The Nintendo DS has other features too. It has a built-in microphone and also supports a wireless IEEE 802.11 of the Wi-Fi standards. This allows the players to interact with one another within a designated short range of 10–30 meters. This interaction also depends on many conditions as well. The players can also interact through online mediums all thanks to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service that was launched later in the console's lifespan. This reportedly was the first ever Nintendo console that was released in North America next to Japan.
The system had a code name which was Nitro and this particular code name can also be seen in the model number appearing on the unit and is NTR-001. The console's name mainly refers to "Developers' System", in accordance to the developers of the new game designs of the system. These new games were meant to inspire and the "Dual Screen" is the system's most obvious as well as most distinct feature. On the 2nd of March 2 in the year 2006, the Nintendo Company released the Nintendo DS Lite.
The DS Lite was simply a redesign of the Nintendo DS in Japan. This was released in North America, Europe as well as in Australia in the month of June 2006. The DS Lite happens to be a slimmer as well as a lighter version of the Nintendo DS and also is equipped with brighter screens. On the 13th of November 2003 the Nintendo Company announced that it would soon be busy in creating a new console that would be released the next year that is in 2004. Nintendo also said that it would not succeed to either the Nintendo Game Cube or Game Boy Advance and simply wants to be the third group of future gaming.
The Nintendo Company revealed very less details at that particular time apart from the fact that DS would be a console that would have two completely separate 3-inch TFT LCD display panels along with separate processors, and would have up to a gigabit of memory of the semiconductor. It was later said that the Nintendo DS is actually based on an absolutely different concept from the existing game devices so that the players can experience a unique entertainment form that is fit for the 21st century. In the month of March the codename of the game was changed to "Nitro" and there was a document that contained most of the technical specifications and was later leaked.