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[Disorientator]

Source: OHIM (page 3, see design numbers below)

Design Information
Design numbers: 002382457-0001/0002/0003
Filing date: 10/01/2014
Registration date: 10/01/2014
Expiry date: 10/01/2019
Design status: Registered and fully published

bigger version

- First design looks like the one Nintendo used at the end.

- Second design (Alt 1) features a single-screen system, and I really can't see how it could work with "legacy" 3DS games. Maybe it wasn't supposed to I guess. (2DS-only games?)
Then again it wouldn't be a "DS" anymore. How much could Nintendo sell this one-screen system?

- With the third design (Alt 2) we are back to 2-screens, but this time the system is wider/shorter and not "angled".
Don't know how this would affect ergonomics/weight but it def. looks good.


Lower financial projections if old.

 

[Riki]

Alt 1 and 2 both look horrid. Glad they went with what they did.

 

[Rlan]

And not one of them had the second analog stick.

 

[HUELEN10]

Alt 2 looks mad comfy.

And not one of them had the second analog stick.

Seeing as how this isn't successor hardware, why would there be?

 

[OnPoint]

And not one of them had the second analog stick.

They were never going to add a second analog stick. Come on now. Maybe next handheld.

 

[BlackJace]

Huh, the 2DS actually looks kinda cool.

To think I laughed at it.

 

[Flame Lord]

I hope the 2DS design is a sign that they may go back to a single screen design next time around.

Spoiler

It probably isn't.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Is there any chance of ever seeing alt 2 surfacing? The smaller screens and wedge-less design make me think it is a cheaper version for some reason.

With the designs being filed only 10 days ago does that mean I had until then to make a 2DS clone or were the designs submitted long ago...

 

[dose]

One screen? Weird. Maybe the other one is on the rear

 

[Ultima_5]

And not one of them had the second analog stick.

proof that companies shouldn't to listen to people on the internet

 

[WillyFive]

I don't see how making a system that big with a single screen that small was ever considered seriously (Alt 1).

And not one of them had the second analog stick.

This meme never gets old.

 

[KarmaCow]

Alt 2 looks mad comfy.

Seeing as how this isn't successor hardware, why would there be?

And yet they were considering a single screen that couldn't support 3DS games apparently.

 

[mrback]

3DS lite incoming with 2nd analog???

 

[Dark_castle]

Alt 1 looks like those Chinese knockoff Street Fighter portable game systems.

 

[Disorientator]

With the designs being filed only 10 days ago does that mean I had until then to make a 2DS clone or were the designs submitted long ago...

Submitted back in August, 23rd it seems.

 

[family_guy]

If Nintendo has another handheld system I hope they eliminate BC so we don't get stuck with dual screens forever. I hate them.

 

[Elija2]

What is even the point of the Alt 1? You wouldn't be able to play any DS or 3DS games on it unless they squished them to fit on that tiny screen.

 

[Fourth Storm]

Looks like they just threw that in there to preemptively counter cheap knock offs using the same basic design. I can't see that small screened 2DS as ever having been in consideration as an actual product - it serves no purpose.

 

[rrs]

Alt 1 looks like what a prototype GBA would had been, or was it just the designers making a joke with alternate design requirements? Or just this:

Looks like they just threw that in there to preemptively counter cheap knock offs using the same basic design. I can't see that small screened 2DS as ever having been in consideration as an actual product - it serves no purpose.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Looks like they just threw that in there to preemptively counter cheap knock offs using the same basic design. I can't see that small screened 2DS as ever having been in consideration as an actual product - it serves no purpose.

Yup. I wouldn't read too much into this.

That said, I am firmly in the camp that believes that Nintendo's next portal will be a hybrid portable/tablet with at vertically oriented 16:9 screen and controls on either side.

 

[Check Mark]

I was expecting to see one long screen like DS emulators.

 

[HannibalJones]

The single screen on alt 1 looks more like the lower touch screen than the upper screen. Maybe another device would have provided the upper screen (like the satirical 1DS mock-up that appeared when the 2DS was unveiled)?

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Looks like they just threw that in there to preemptively counter cheap knock offs using the same basic design. I can't see that small screened 2DS as ever having been in consideration as an actual product - it serves no purpose.

that could be a stand in for a future (more sensible) design they are considering. Nintendo often use tweaked images of older hardware when registering new hardware.

 

[Nilaul]

Looks like they just threw that in there to preemptively counter cheap knock offs using the same basic design. I can't see that small screened 2DS as ever having been in consideration as an actual product - it serves no purpose.

So I could still make one that looks like this?

 

[Mutanthands]

Yup. I wouldn't read too much into this.

That said, I am firmly in the camp that believes that Nintendo's next portal will be a hybrid portable/tablet with at vertically oriented 16:9 screen and controls on either side.

Would make sense, but I would think 4:3 would be more likely. What ever it would take to get a ratio of 400 x 480 ( 2 times 240 ) plus a gap to mimic the 3DS.

 

[Rodney McKay]

So I could still make one that looks like this?

My right hand weeps just thinking about how it would have to contort in order to use that second thumbstick while also holding the system.

Need some more grip on that sucka!

 

[sixteen-bit]

Were you supposed to beam the main screen to a TV or something?