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PaulGaleNetwork on 06 November 2015
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bdbdbd said:
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.

If Nintendo goes with Fusion as the final name of the NX, I could see the home console becoming "Nintendo Fusion" and the handheld 

becoming DS Fusion.

Miyamotoo said:
PaulGaleNetwork said:

$250 was what the Wii came out as and included a really big hit game.  If Nintendo could replicate that debut pack-in game "wow factor" they did in 2006, that'd be pretty awesome.

Basically, Wii had affordable price, very strong launch titles and very strong "gimmick". Wii U was quite opposite, high price (especially in comparison with PS3/Xbox360), very weak launch titles and very weak gimmick.

With NX Nintendo probably is aiming $249-299 price point, it will have strong launch titles (Zelda U port and Mario 3D game are almost certain), we still don't know certain about gimmick but unified platform with home and handheld could be pretty good "gimmick".


If th NX had a $250-$300 price at launch, what level of power do you think it would have?  (Around Xbox One/PS4?)

superchunk said:
Gamemaster87 said:


And the DS?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_codenames#Nintendo_DS

The code name for the DS was not "DS" at first. Only at the very end when they were basically just calling it as it is.

DS ended up probably being the best name for the system.  I'm glad they went with it, though I would have bought it all the same had it been named something else.  For the masses though, DS meaning Dual Screens, definitely helped.