I bought every Nintendo Handheld EVER.

I just

bought

all the Nintendo laptops and while we've seen PlayStation Home consoles, we've seen Nintendo Home consoles, this is by far the craziest evolution

ever

seen on the channel because it starts in 1980 when Nintendo released their first . portable game console The Game and Watch it's hard to believe this is from over 40 years ago, a time when there was no Nintendo Wii, there was no Xbox, there was no PlayStation for many people, this game and watch was the beginning What would become modern games and it all started simply because one day Nintendo's head of research and development, Yokoi, saw a bored businessman who resorted to playing with his calculator on a bullet train in Japan and suddenly had a genius idea: a wearable device that could both play a proper game and also tell you the time or, quite literally, play a game and watch.

It definitely feels a little disposable in terms of materials, okay, then you click on the game, oh my goodness, and off we go, there's no boot. There is no time here, so the goal of the game is to catch as many balls as possible without dropping any. It's phenomenal that the first games used to be played at two frames per second, the whole goal is to get the highest score possible. but this is funny, the buttons are a little soft, I feel like they are not super precise like modern controllers. I can't believe this is like the origin of modern gaming in my hands right now, the console was inspired by a calculator in more ways than it uses the same LCD technology for the screen, its 4-bit processor isn't much more powerful than one and because they've had to draw on this overlay screen to add detail, each Game and Watch console can only play one game, so this one here.

This ball, which is the first one they made, but there was also an octopus where you had to collect gold while avoiding the deadly creature. They even made dual screen games like Donkey Kong, which might remind you of another console and why Nintendo didn't do it. compromising the quality of the games themselves, many people found themselves buying not just one or two, but up to the 60 different Game and Watch consoles that Nintendo ended up making, bringing the total sales tally to 43 million, but at the time It came to Nintendo's next generation

handheld

in 1989, the Game Boy, they had much more power to work with and could do what was previously impossible.

This is the first time we're starting to see major accessories in the box, tons of tutorials that I assume were developers. Nowadays they've gotten smarter about gradually integrating themselves into games, oh, free Tetris. I used to have a lot of these gaming cases in the past, you get headphones that look pretty cheap and cheerful. A Link cable, which is how you would play multiplayer games. and then the Game Boy itself now, although it is very difficult to exactly compare the power of these two consoles because you know that the Game Boy is a proper video game console that reproduces real graphics and displays them on its LCD screen, while the game clock It was basically illuminating pre-designed segments on the screen just to give you an idea, the old tone processor in the Game Boy is about 40 times more powerful and this extra power means it can run games at up to 60 frames per second in not just one color but four different shades of gray that would help developers build objects with texture and depth.

Well, if you turn it on from above, oh my God,

ever

ything moves very slowly. Listen to the audio quality that is the most retro Zelda tune I've ever heard and then you have a contrast slider on the side that allows you to modify it depending on the environment you're viewing it in. I'm having palpitations right now, the things The Song can do to a grown man, it's very hard to see exactly what's going on in this, the brightness is so low you have to tilt it at the right angle, but when you do, this is slightly ahead of what the gaming watch could do.

The buttons have a little more stretch. I guess what strikes me most about this is the potential scope of games, that you know when you light them up as pre-designed sections on an LCD screen, that's all that's going to happen. but suddenly it seems like the possibilities are limitless. You could live out your wildest fantasies. You could have any adventure you can imagine on this console. It's a beautiful thing, but none of this was the most revolutionary part of the Game Boy, what it really promoted. This console achieved Legendary status. The reason why even now the term Game Boy remains practically shorthand for gaming device to many confused but well-meaning parents is that this was the device that popularized interchangeable cartridges, you literally pop out a game.

You put a new one in it and this seemingly simple feat alone meant that this console had more capacity than the entire collection of 60 different game watches, the only thing the Game Boy was missing is color, which is why nine years later Nintendo knew exactly what they had to do, they released a hardware overhaul so massive that most people consider it a completely separate console. This is the important key, probably also where Nintendo peaked when it comes to manual volume. It's like an encyclopedia inside this box and then the console. The Game Boy Color was basically the Game Boy of the future, it was the first console I had as a kid and I remember longing for this thing for years, literally drooling as I walked past it in store cabinets until the day it happened and This is because compared to the Game Boy, this thing is more compact in

every

dimension, weighing barely half as much, but somehow having twice the CPU power and three times the RAM, making it about 80 times more powerful than the original game. feel my Nostalgia Rising meter, it's a little loud like a piece of hardware, but when I was a kid this was the sexiest piece of technology you could have, it's actually crazy the difference the gift of color can make, it's almost like Yes I just unlocked a completely different sense, it's not very often that a games console can do that, plus Nintendo has mastered the buttons this time, the d-pad is somewhat smooth and quiet, but then the A and B buttons respond and they are agile.

I have a completely different appreciation for the Game Boy Color, now this is crazy, well there are some exclusive games that take advantage of the extra power that color has. It largely plays the exact same library of games as the Game Boy with the added power. I used to add some color shading to the original Game Boy games that were designed without color or to the color exclusive games, render them in up to 56 different colors at any time and then the icing on the cake for the Game Boys was that they were also basically undisputed as if there were other

handheld

s, the Atari Links, the Neo with geopockets, the Bandai Wonder Swan, whatever, but none of them had this magical combination of interchangeable games with a color screen and, well, Pokémon that They added these consoles to take the world by storm, selling a total of 119 million units, so many units that when the next console arrived there was a lot of genuine enthusiasm for it, so Nintendo did what anyone would do in their situation: they kept the DNA Game Boy hub for your next Game Boy.

Preview, but they also made sure that everything else about this just screamed: I'm a real next-gen monster, aside from the fact that they're still wrapping their consoles like a bag of chips, unlike the Game Boy Color, which was As a midway update, the trailer was built from the ground up as a true successor and what really catches my eye is how surprisingly generous the offering is to begin with. It comes with not one, but two CPUs, a next-generation Arm processor for proper gaming. meaty GBA games, but also a next-gen chip that's added just to make the console fully compatible with Game Boy Color and the original Game Boy games.

I know it seems completely ridiculous, but who does that? And there's more, Gameboy Advance added two shoulders. The buttons expand the possible abilities for the complexity of the game and the fact that it also has an inflated width makes it nicer to grip with two hands and somehow it did all that and at the same time was cheaper than the Game Boy original that launched at around 170 at today's price versus 217. True, it's definitely a badder looking piece of technology than the Game Boy Color. Inspires confidence in your power. This will be a very memorable home screen.

Oh, so many hours, so many days, so many years that I have spent listening to that. There is a lot more movement in his hair, in fact it moves as I walk with it. They also managed to add some of the UI that was previously hidden in the corner screen menus, which is just a very simple quality to Now you can make life better thanks to this extra screen real estate. Here you can also feel a greater refinement of the controls. They have noticeably reinforced the d-pad, it no longer feels soft, it actually feels quite agile and reactive.

Yeah, and the other thing you can notice is the number of different shades of color available, because within this frame alone there are like 45 different shades of green and it really increases the detail of the individual objects. Pardon the pun, but this feels much more advanced. It's so strange that I'm absolutely excited about 20 year old technology, but this is what happens when you start from the beginning and work your way up, you can appreciate Decades of progression in about 10 minutes, the only problem was because the screen was gone. With the backlighting, we did everything we could to try to make sure we could still see the thing at night, which brings us to the Gameboy Advance SP, where the intention was to fix that problem.

I'm just remembering how quick my smugness was when I had the Game Boy Advance. I got jealous with my brother and got one of these bad boys because honestly, this was the most elegant way to play advanced Game Boy games. The SP was colorful and fully rechargeable for the first time. It had a backlit screen that you didn't have to worry about. almost as foldable, which was not only awesome but also gave you a more natural angle to view your games considering this was just an update and not even a new platform in and of itself, the SP sold phenomenally well, actually a little more embarrassingly than normal.

GBA I suppose the design and quality of life improvements here allowed it to reach a market that the original didn't, bringing the platform's total sales to 82 million, but it's actually the Nintendo DS where things are probably They began to take off. this company by the way side note pay attention to how much hardware they are pumping out right now the DS came just a year after the GBA SP which came just two years after the GBA there is a lot of progression happening very quickly and this one too It is by far the company's most premium unboxing experience.

You have manuals, the complete game of Super Mario 64 DS. I guess the way Nintendo changes units quickly from the start, a charger, because at this point it's a given that all handhelds. It would have rechargeable batteries, two more sets as this is the VIP launch package, leaving a spare Styler as in case I don't know if your kids accidentally ingest the first one, something about this clean metal and black look gives us It feels quite futuristic compared to where we were. I just came from now, if we read between the lines in this package, when the company offers you so many things for free, the reason is because they are not sure that it will sell well, they are the ones who are trying to treat people from the principle. of their release cycle, making sure they have absolutely everything you could want and that the reviews are as good as possible and you can see why the term DS stands for dual screen and this whole concept was a bit of a shock when it was first revealed .

I mean, if you asked Gameboy Advance users what they wanted to see at their next concert or I can't imagine that more screens would be high on their list and given that the console that looked most like this so far were those game watches originals that were nothing more than toys these days, it was very easy to see the DS's design as a useless gimmick, so what was Nintendo thinking? Why didn't they just play it safe and release another Game Boy game? Well, Nintendo foresaw that the touchscreen was about to become a big part of how people interacted with their devices.

They realized, even before the first iPhone, that having touchscreen controls offered a level of intuition that anyone could understand, broadening the appeal far beyond the traditional button-mashing gamer, and when they followed up this hardware with games that really took advantage of it, like Nintendogs, which lets you interact with these adorable puppies, and Dr. Brain Training.Testing your entire family's reflexes and mental math, Kawashima really found itself in the hands of many first-time console owners, but what really sealed the fate of the Nintendo DS was that they managed to do this without appealing only to Casual users, like their last console, the DS was equipped with a completely separate CPU just to be able to play previous generation games and even a completely separate slot to be able to play games. insert them into that, because the life cycle of the Game Boy Advance was so short, this console was the first opportunity for many people to experience those games as well, but also when it came to the next generation DS games, the new processor in this one it was incredibly fast between 5 and 10 times. faster in terms of raw number processing, leaving us ready 3,200 times more capable than the watch for gaming, but an even bigger leap in that this was really the first time you could even think about playing 3D games suitable on the go and The fact that this thing has 125 times more RAM than the GBA also allows you to have a complete home system.

This is an iconic piece of kit. Many, many good times were had with this machine right here. I also remember the fact that it was folded was a pretty cool feature back then, although while the hinge feels pretty solid now for anyone who's used one of these for seven years straight, not so much, it's the only weird console where there's no power switch, but a power button. Oh yeah, they've definitely played up the fact that this is a fancy console for people who want to have a proper home screen experience Picto chat to be fair, although although it's not modern technology it actually feels surprisingly responsive, like really not far from Samsung's most recent flagship phones, and this was the first emojis ever seen, remember I felt so smart with my UI like the DS and every time you want to go home, the system turns off.

Oh wow, this is a full 3D adventure, this definitely feels like a generational leap from the Game Boy Advance. I don't know why they assumed that touch screen control was the best way to do this. It's actually so nice to not have to tilt the console perfectly to be able to see the screens from time to time, and then they updated it starting with the DS Lite, which wasn't as revolutionary as the Gameboy Color or Gameboy Advance SP, but still had up to double the battery life and also a design and colors that appealed to many more people, leaving this to be by far the best-selling DS model and then because the DS was a great success and because the manufacturers of Consoles tend to make more and more money the longer they can stretch out the life cycle of that platform as the core hardware gets cheaper over time, Nintendo made a third major overhaul with the DSi and DSi.

XL, three years later, you'll notice that compared to how packaged the original DS launch box was, this only comes with a spare stylus, charger, and console. Nintendo is not too concerned with making a good impression at this stage, but rather trying to find ways to reduce costs and make as much profit as possible and this was also seen in the features of the console. DSi finally abandoned the Game Boy game slot that Nintendo had maintained for so long and also introduced DS glasses which sound like a virus but were basically games and apps that you could download directly through the Nintendo DSi store and give them more money directly , since it's now 2009 and smartphones were something the DSi did a good job of helping the DS sustain.

Up top it had an overclock chip it had two cameras it could take and edit photos it supported SD cards of up to 32 gigabytes and play music and even surf the Internet and probably the most significant introduced the idea of ​​an Excel model that would be maintained throughout the next generation of consoles , so if we add these 3DS models together, we have the DSi, the DS Lite and the basic DS, their combined total sales were absolutely astronomical: 154.2 million units, making the DS the second largest console platform best seller of all time. at this point and also almost double what Sony achieved with the PSP, which was possibly the only real portable threat Nintendo has ever faced, but then, from these dizzying funnels of Nintendo Heights, its next console, the 3DS, was similar to the DS in that it also offered something that no one was really asking for, but this time they placed their bets in the wrong place Glasses-free 3D technology, you can really tell that Nintendo is trying everything here, they're almost going for a scattershot approach to try and land accidentally into what the DS is. the future should be like you have code cards because this is the first Nintendo handheld to launch with a proper online store. augmented reality cards.

I guess Nintendo was just trying to make sure their console could do this in case AR suddenly became the new standard in gaming, but it ended up becoming one of the 3DS's many gimmicks - it even comes with a dock. full load and as for the console itself, it's like a DS, but I'd say even more modern with this metallic gradient finish and two-tone coloring on the inside now to get one thing out of the way I thought it would. The 3DS was amazing when it was released, it was around the time when 3D movies were peaking and the first Avatar movie even became the biggest box office hit of all time. and to the idea that not only 3D movies, but also full 3D games were possible without big thick glasses on this little thing, it was revolutionary and a subscription to the channel would be and then 10 out of 10. see the top of 3DS The screen uses something called a parallax barrier to separate the image it shows to each of your eyes.

Show one eye one thing and the other eye exactly the same scene but from a slightly different perspective and this recreates our normal three-dimensional vision which works in exactly the same way, each of your eyes sees the same thing from slightly different points of view, so I remember I didn't buy one of these 3DS until quite some time after it was released and then when I got it I was like, Oh my god! I've been missing so much power. This is the first time I've seen the 3D effect in a long time. There is nothing like it yet.

It really is a magical effect. Oh, the UI feels significantly smoother. Each icon has its sound effect. and animation, and everything runs at 60 frames per second, it definitely builds on the bass that the DS established. Oh, the music, wow, it runs like butter, not to mention the game has a lot more polygons on the screen and runs at a higher resolution. Another thing I think is pretty subtle, but the nature of the games is that the character actually moves faster in this one. People have gotten so used to the idea of ​​having a sprint button, oh my god, I totally forgot about that. you have a joystick, that's probably a big part of why it feels smoother too.

The other interesting thing is that because both screens have a higher resolution than the last generation, you can see maps in much more detail than before. I should probably mention that there was also a Nintendo 3DS XL, which is the one I personally

bought

and used and honestly, this is a great piece of kit. They really weren't kidding with the word XL and, to scale, the 3DS is about five times larger. powerful than the DS with 32 times the amount of RAM, so compared to the beginning thousands of times. The SE's specs make it much more powerful than most people expected, but this is also the big problem with the 3DS that Nintendo fell into.

The classic trap of new consoles is to see every time a company makes a console that works well, that console becomes a brand, the Nintendo DS in this case, and that brand, because people have so many associations with it, okay a lot of money and that's what Nintendo did with the 3DS. exactly what you would assume you should do with that information to preserve as much of that valuable DS brand identity as possible in this new product; However, they didn't separate it enough in terms of how it looks, how it works, and its name. The 3DS doesn't feel like a completely new, five times more powerful platform.

If you're a casual Nintendo DS user and you see this new 3DS on the shelf, what are you going to think? You're going to think about it well. It looks like a DS that can do 3D. I'm not going to pay the current equivalent of 330 just to do that. This was around the time Nintendo also released the Wii U, which suffered from the exact same problem and both consoles got off to a rocky start because of it, plus while 3D itself was a technical marvel, the fact that you had Sitting at exactly the right angle if you didn't want the Parallax barrier effect to be ruined meant that no one used it beyond the party trick and for many it was simply a pain in the ass, which is why Nintendo made the 2DS a console. which set the launch price at just $165 in today's money and fixed the 3D by removing it.

Wow, this might be the ugliest console I've ever owned. hands and then not long after the new 3DS, which is a terrible name because what is it called when it's not new anymore? But yes, this was the console that really fixed the 3D aspect by adding a front-facing camera that could track the position of your eyes. and then making sure I fed each eye with those two separate perspectives, not to mention an even faster processor and the second little joystick. I remember I was playing a lot of a game called Monster Hunter at the time this and this little Tiddly came out.

Stick was an absolute game changer, so these console revisions went some way to changing the history of the 3DS, but to be honest, it was mainly when they started releasing exclusive games like Pokémon X and Y and Animal Crossing that required that people had a 3DS to play. Nintendo managed to increase console sales to a respectable seven or six months and suddenly with their next console, Nintendo just acquired the Switch, which is the biggest upgrade they've ever made, so we had the original Switch in 2017. You've probably seen this one. It was the first time most people saw Nintendo games in Full HD.

It is both a home console and a handheld computer. It had controllers built inside it that can be used by one or two people. It has a kickstand to play with. On-the-fly multiplayer has the Wii's motion controls built into these controllers and the icing on the cake is that it's relatively free of expensive gimmicks, there's no dual screen, there's no 3D, there's absolutely no competition between the quality of the gaming experience. compared to last year, I don't know if I'm biased by the consoles I just saw, but this looks realistic to me right now, it's got amazing depth of field, everything is so textured and the lighting is gorgeous and it's really very nice to be able to have one big screen to enjoy that content instead of two small screens.

You want to know why? Well, the Nintendo Switch isn't five or ten times faster, it's actually 106 times more powerful than the 3DS, but when? If you compare it to our humble gaming watch from the beginning, it gives us a number that is basically impossible to comprehend: 1.7 million times. It gets better, then they perfected this with the OLED switch which again has tons of stuff in the box I guess due to the complex nature of having a hybrid console two controllers in a premium matte white finish love this I think they are awesome an AC adapter HDMI cable controller accessories to turn each half controller into its own full controller the Joiner to turn two halves into one by one the base to connect to the TV and then to the console itself, although it is not like a higher resolution screen or a console more powerful, simply having this OLED technology, which means each pixel is illuminated individually rather than having one big backlight, makes a big difference.

I'm completely immersed, but then Nintendo realized they could save a lot of fat by simply making a switch to be used solely as a normal handheld and created the switch light. It's a little crazy, this thing basically requires nothing in the box, except to be fair. The fact that this can still offer the same games for half the price is nothing to sneeze at, which is why this Trifecta, combined with games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing, New Horizons and Super Smash Bros, has already managed to sell 120 million pieces. So the Switch could very well be on the verge of becoming the best-selling console of all time.

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