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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."
I mean, the new nintendo handheld is news, but the potential working name that might be used is kind of stretching it a little bit, don't you think?
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With a name like Nitro, kiss your chance of carrying it onto airplane flights goodbye. "Nintendo Small Travel Pillow" would have worked for that.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This has already been debunked. Sources are reporting that NITRO (besides being the dumbest name ever) was/is being used as the internal name while Nintendo worked on the machine. Similar to how the code name for the GameCube was Dolphin.
...which would be a concise argument, if the gamecube weren't their first *original* name for US markets: Nintendo Entertainment System Super Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo 64 (which was almost named "ultra") going with the gameboy, they're all still gameboys. except the one that fits in your pocket is labeled as such, and the one that had 56 color screen is called the game boy color, and so on and so forth... so its not numbers, but not terribly imaginitive, either. "its calles super so it must be better!" is about as lame as numbering it.... the only company that has consistently given a unique name to each console was sega: master system and genesis... saturn, dreamcast.
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.'
I believe SP stands for Special Project, which was the internal working name at Nintendo. Apparently, they decided that it was good enough for the real thing.
Similarly, I think they should stick with DS as a name for the new system. It means something (Dual Screen, in case ya didn't know), unlike "Nitro" which doesn't mean anything, sounds stupid, and conveys an impression of dangerously high velocity.
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I definitively learned that Nintendo's new game device may or may not have a DS on the end of the name.
I have to go take a nap. *woofda*
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They should just call it the Nintendo Two-Way, because you might be able to use the two screens for two-player stuff.
Why is everyone laughing?