Why Game Boy Shifted into the Nintendo DS
133Nintendo had a planned the Game Boy IRIS, until one person changed everything with the DS with 2 screens. It probably wouldn't have happened in the U.S. Kim Horcher and Tim Frisch (What the Flick TV) break it down.
"Satoru Okada, who was General Manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering before he retired in 2012, said in a recent interview with Retro Gamer Magazine that no one on the handheld team liked the idea of the DS when it was first proposed. If some folks had gotten their way, Nintendo would have produced a successor to the Game Boy Advance instead."
Read the rest: http://kotaku.com/the-man-who-worked-on-the-original-game-boy-explains-wh-1790673619
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