Nintendo DS

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Nintendo DS

Release Date	🇺🇸 NA: November 20th, 2004 🇯🇵 JPN: December 2nd, 2004 🇦🇺 AUS: Feburary 20th, 2005 🇪🇺 EU: March 11th, 2005

Status	Discontinued

Manufacturer

Type	Handheld

Drawn to Life Games
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“Touching is good.”

–Official Nintendo DS slogan

The Nintendo DS is a handheld video game console developed by Nintendo. It first released in 2004 to tremendous success across it's four variations, largely due to the dual screens, one of which was a touch screen. The system housed multiple Drawn to Life games, including the first two canon entries and sole spinoff of the franchise. The system would be succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS in 2011, and eventually discontinued in 2013, with it's final release in October 2014.

Notable Games[edit]


Game	Developer	Publisher	Release Date
PictoChat			Nov. 21, 2004
Super Mario 64 DS	Nintendo EAD		Nov. 21, 2004
Nintendogs	Nintendo EAD		Apr. 21, 2005
Mario Kart DS	Nintendo EAD		Nov. 14, 2005
Metroid Prime Hunters	Nintendo Software Technology		March 20, 2006
New Super Mario Bros.	Nintendo EAD		May 15, 2006
			Sept. 10, 2007
			Oct. 23, 2007
			Sept. 9, 2008
			Sept. 15, 2008
			Sept. 15, 2009
			Oct. 8, 2009
			Oct. 26, 2009
			Oct. 12, 2010
			Nov. 23, 2010
Pokémon Black Version 2 & White Version 2	Game Freak	The Pokémon Company	Jun. 23, 2012
Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay	1st Playable Productions	GameMill Entertainment	Oct. 28, 2014

Trivia[edit]

The Nintendo DS sold a grand total of 153.1M units across it's four variations - making it the best-selling handheld games console of all time.
The system had the majority of the Drawn to Life titles released, housing four of the six games.
- All four variations are compatible with these games.
According to Jeremiah Slazcka, an early build for the first Drawn to Life shown off to Nintendo was shown off via a hacked console.^[1]
- This build was what gave them the approval to develop games for the console.