My NX logo video, explanation for system being called, "Nintendo Infinite", controller ideas, etc.

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Azelover said:

We don't know for sure. Usually Nintendo has the final name out by the year's launch E3, and that was the case with the name DS. I think they always planned to use NDS, as a new NES from the 80's.

What they did was take the "Nintendo" brand and "new" brand switch them over so they could start them over again. With a brand new astral body that didn't exist yet.

I don't care if you believe in this or not, I'm simply using theory. The Nintendo console and Gameboy handheld were sacrificed, in order to create a new "Nintendo" like, this time handheld, which would start over the business, and a new Gameboy. Which is simply a new brand with no "Nintendo" on it, that is the Wii, a console. The new Gameboy.

I think they're either going to combine them in some fashion, OR, it's going to continue as it was in the 90's, we're gonna get a new Nintendo handheld not named DS but with Nintendo still on the name, and the NX will be another Wii. Shockingly. If they're gonna drop the Wii they're going to come up with a brand new name.

The name "DS" was the final name. As a project, it's name was Nitro (that's why all DS product codes start with NTR). The developer system and dual screen was just playing with the DS name, pointing out the philosophy behind it as well as the two screens the device had.

Nintendo released DS as a third pillar of their strategy (GBA, GC, NDS), and Iwata said back then, that Nintedo was going to release another handheld after the DS (to replace GBA). But as DS started to spread like wildfire, the second handheld was Gameboy Micro, after which the GB line was buried. It's likely that if the DS had proven unsuccessful, Nintendo had released a handheld that would compete PSP in power race.