Nintendo DS Actually Nintendo Nitro?

Tim Butler writes "According to 1UP.com, Nintendo's official developer relations site offers an interesting clue as to what Nintendo's DS dual-screen handheld may be called at launch. Between the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo has a platform called 'Nitro' listed." Though this may be a previous working name and unrelated to the final moniker, 1UP's screenshot of the website is useful, since Nintendo has already changed the image back to read 'Nintendo DS'. We've previously covered what's currently known about the handheld's technical specs. Update: 03/10 22:22 GMT by S : MCV has spoken to a Nintendo representative, who claims "this is a reference to... [the project code name] before the working name Nintendo DS was decided", but the piece also notes: "The final official name for the Nintendo DS... is still to be confirmed."

Comments

are these 'slips' intentional?

[MBraynard]

I wonder if these kind of slips - "accidently" posting something up and them immediatly changing it, leaking specs to the press, etc., are really intentional and meant to get free advertising (aka 'earned media').

I've seen this done so often in the past it makes you wonder. And you would also think that with a company as large as N that the people working on the Nitro project and preparing a slideshow-type graphic would be different from the people running the website, and that someone would actually have to hand off that graphic and say 'please post this for about 30 minutes and send an anonymous email to that gaming website to bring it to their attention.'

Re:Numbering systems is lame and unimaginitive

[IntergalacticWalrus]

There's a good reason for that type of naming, and it's called branding. You may find "Playstation 2" to be a sucky name (I do too), but for the masses, it means _everything_. The Playstation was extremely successful, so when people see "Playstation 2", they think "wow! like the already good Playstation, but newer and better than the original!!"