After 14 years of handheld gaming market dominance, Nintendo took the next step in the common era with the release of the Nintendo DS in November 2004 in North America.
The DS built on the Game Boy Advances correction to the monochrome deficit of the original Game Boy, building in color capabilities that Sega almost capitalized on during their competition bout, and took it even further.
It utilized a LCD screen with touch-screen capability, ahead of the current technology of phones by almost a decade! It also supported Wi-Fi capacity, so people could multi-play without the prior need to hook a wire connecting each other's systems physically together, as in the previous Game Boy.
The DS has had multiple upgraded versions throughout its reign, each one tweaking the prior in minor, yet significant ways.
The first upgrade was the DS Lite, which was sleeker and upgraded to brighter screens, yet still kept the same basic configurations of screen size and make, just being lighter and more portable.
The DSi basically was a larger version of the DS Lite.
Then came the DSi XL (Which I still use even now), which offered larger screens and more visual angles.
All 4 versions of the DS have sold a staggering 153.96 million units and has 1,826 games according to Nintendo's official site.
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