Despite its increased size, the DS isn't too heavy, tipping the scales at 9.7 ounces.
Unlike the SP, which fits in almost any pocket, the DS will likely travel in your backpack or your shoulder bag. Though the Nintendo DS is roughly the size of the original Game Boy Advance, its clamshell design makes it a bit chunkier-picture two GBA SPs sitting side by side. With the DS Lite-a slimmer, brighter, and more stylish version of the DS-also available for $130, expect a price drop, more bundling, or discontinuation of this iteration of the system. Nintendo also often releases special higher-priced DS bundles that include a game. The system currently retails for $130 and is available in two colors: Titanium and Electric Blue. While DS cartridges are much smaller in capacity than the PSP's UMDs, they play without the often unbearable load times of Sony's proprietary format. The system plays its own proprietary cartridges (which are somewhere between SD and CompactFlash cards in size), in addition to its near-full backward compatibility with GBA titles. There's also a normal face-button layout that allows a more standard method of control. On the bottom is a touch screen that allows you to use a stylus or a finger for anything from selecting options to moving characters.
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The Nintendo DS is a portable gaming system with two vertically tiered screens.
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It faces some tough competition in form of Sony's graphically superior PSP, which also features movie and music playback, but fortunately for Nintendo, the system has been a breakout success, due in no small part to the uniqueness of its titles. Forcing a second visual output and a touch screen on a generation of gamers weaned on controllers could have resulted in a disaster of Virtual Boy proportions.
Riding high on the success of the mega-popular Game Boy Advance (GBA) line of portables, Nintendo decided to take a risk when it released the Nintendo DS-short for dual screen.
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