Nintendo made a DS with one screen

Yes this is real. Nintendo actually made this. But why? What is it for?

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[EXTNT]

Finally, the latest installment of the 3ds series, the 1ds

[sagichdirdochnicht]

Funfact: The Nintendo 2DS also had only one Screen. It looked like it were two, but in reality, the casing just blocked the rest of it. Why? Apparently one big Screen was cheaper then two seperate one.

[babylonian]

would love to play my McDonald’s eCDP cartridge on this bad boy. the combined rarity would probably form some kind of black hole

Edit: okay, hang on… i couldn’t stop thinking about this, and it occurred to me that the McDonald’s eCDP training cart is played entirely on the bottom screen. eCDP also exclusively uses touch controls, so there’s no need for buttons.... meaning it’s actually one of the only DS games that would *actually* be playable on this thing. good god

[cleangoblin]

If we can finally produce this quality of plastic using 3d printers, there's gonna be mayhem in retro consoles market.
I cant be the only one who has crazy ideas to their consoles

[photonsOrigin]

The thumbnail: There's no buttons, it's played with the stylus, the ACWW cartridge is in it, and it's playing New Super Mario Bros. 2, which is a 3DS game.

[HoroJoga]

I think the reason they made this stripped down version is to make the hardware useless for gaming, so clerks don't steal it or remove it from it's designed function to play their own games.

[gefriernudel]

Fun fact: DS also stands for "Developer's System". Nintendo gave it that name in 2004 (before it actually launched) because they wanted to create a device that is easy to program.

[henriqueideal]

This is not a Nintendo DS, It is a Nintendo S

[SuiSlyder]

Is it just me, or does this DS give off a Gen 1 Pokedex vibe?

[RobertChambers]

Elliot: "I made a GBA SP with two screens for no reason."

Nintendo: "Hold my beer."

[PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

When I was younger I had the even more fabled Nintendo No Screen, it ran on my imagination.

[ProtoMario]

The Nintendo D

Fans - Give us the D Nintendo

Nintendo - Scrap the line...

[tenelum]

Holy shit, this is the first time I’ve ever actually listened to an ad. I just learned that Japanese Gameboys can play American games so I’m gonna be using Sendico, thanks!

[SuperTrainStationH]

I find it fascinating that they found it economically worthwhile to engineer and manufacture DSi units with only one screen no buttons, and unremovable cartridges just for this specific purpose rather than just send out new carts that enabled this on whatever Download Station DS units that were already set up in retail stores.

[captain]

In this case the D stands for "Doublen't"

[honeycombee]

Is nobody gonna point out that in the thumbnail he's playing NSMB2 when animal crossing is going In the cartridge slot?

[MeshDy]

It's not even a DS... it's just an S.

[bonktoryu]

*"It's evolving! Just backwards."*

[jay-zotf]

“I brought a DS with one screen for no reason”

[TheRealFunko-Momo]

Finally, we got the prequel to the DS. The SS, stands for Single Screen.