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Blue Handheld Console (Nintendo DS)

Blue Handheld Console (Nintendo DS)
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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #11150 in Computer & Video Games
  • Brand: Nintendo
  • Released on: 2005-10-07
  • Platform: Nintendo DS

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Nintendo DS is no ordinary console. What on the face of it appears to be merely an upgraded Game Boy Advance is packed with a suite of never-before-seen features which make it unique within the gaming world.

The most obvious new feature is the two screens (DS stands for dual screen), the bottom of which is a touch screen. This makes an enormous difference to the way you play and interact with the game, as you use a stylus or the handy thumb strap to control the action.

The way this works in a game varies enormously, with first person shooter Metroid Prime: Hunters using the touch screen and D-pad to create a control system that’s just as responsive as a PC keyboard and mouse. Other games, like Yoshi’s Touch & Go, have you actually drawing on the touch pad to create platforms, while other games use the extra screen to display inventory or map info.

But there’s more to the DS than even that. It also has a built-in microphone (one new medical game has you operating on patients with the touch screen and reassuring them everything’s going to be okay via the microphone) and it can be connected wirelessly to sixteen or more other consoles. Not only that but some games and utilities even allow it to connect online via Wi-Fi.

Although the DS is far more powerful than the GBA – it can display 3D graphics somewhere between a Nintendo 64 and the GameCube--it is still backwards compatible, so you can play all your old GBA games in single player mode on the same console.

With a battery life of between 6 and 10 hours the Nintendo DS gets pretty much everything right. With a range of games that seem to offer far more originality and imagination than any other home or portable console this is could well be the most exciting new console of 2005. --David Jenkins

Technical Specifications

  • Size (when closed): 148.7mm wide, 84.7mm long, 28.9mm tall
  • Top screen: a backlit, 3-inch, semitransparent reflective TFT color LCD with 256 x 192 pixel resolution and .24 mm dot pitch, capable of displaying 260,000 colours
  • Touch screen: same specs as top screen, but with a transparent analog touch screen
  • Wireless communication: IEEE 802.11 and Nintendo's proprietary format; wireless range is 30 to 100 feet, depending on circumstances
  • Other features: embedded PictoChat software that allows up to 16 users to chat at once; embedded real-time clock; date, time and alarm
  • CPUs: One ARM9 and one ARM7
  • Sound: Stereo speakers providing virtual surround sound, depending on the software; integral headphone socket
  • Battery: lithium ion battery delivering six to 10 hours of play on a four-hour charge, depending on use
  • Two separate game slots, one for Nintendo DS games and one for Game Boy Advance games. The Nintendo DS is fully backwards compatible with all Game Boy Advance titles. The new format for games also means that the Nintendo DS has no moving parts that can be misaligned if the unit is dropped

Customer Reviews

Nintendo have done it again!5
The Nintendo Ds blue, what can i say, all the ds' are good but the blue is sophisticated, sexy and isn't tacky looking like the pink one. The stylus is a perfect additive to this little bundle of entertainment. The smooth screen easily kicks off the PSP, advance, etc.

The DS can play Gameboy Advance games which you easily insert at the bottom of the DS.

*NOTE*: Get screen protectors, when your DS gets scratched, there is no going back. (unless you want to pay another hundred pound or so?)
Also when inserting your game chip (DS) make sure the little shiny bit is facing you from the front of the DS. I put mine in the wrong way and it was an absoloute NIGHTMARE. Don't get in the same situation people!

Great Console..Fabby!!!5
This is a fab console....and lots of games (advanced and DS)games are compatible with it. Lovely colour(metallic pastel blue) and a great screen placement(double screened.)This console is a touch sreen and a non touch svcreen AND yet it still has the tradittional arrows and X,Y,A &B contols.This is a GREAT console!!BUY IT!!!!

CRAP!!!1
This item is CRAP, not because of the console its self, but for the person who is selling it, they have sent me broken items in the past and i'm sure that this seller is going to do exactly the same. SO DON'T BUY THIS CONSOLE FROM THIS SELLER!!!!!!!!!