Do you think Gameboy DS would have been a better name For NDS

No, I think that kills it

The Gameboy name was nice but it's cliche now and draws the attention away from everyone being included.

Nintendo DS is a nice name that has the name recognition for the gamers but also has the straight forward name that wont scare away non gamers.

Once you slap a silly moniker on it some people may be hesitant to try it out.

If it was released as Gameboy DS, which sounds wierd now because we are used to Nintendo DS, it would have sounded normal because that would have been the name we got used to.

The only reason they didn't attach the gameboy name to it was because they were afraid the DS might tank, and if it had the gameboy name attached to it and did fail, then it would have blackened the gameboy name which had been successful for 15 years, but you've probly heard this explanation a million times so.

7CloudStrife7

Yup, I was about to say this. I remember when it first came out I keep saying "Nintendo DS sounds so dumb, where's the gameboy!" :lol:

Now I am so used to Nintendo DS that anything else just sounds wrong. So now you have to think what will Nintendo do next, make another DS? a new GB? something else?

I still think it would blacken the name. Gameboy is a word used for nostalgia, and so attributing it to the DS would have been horrible

^ ^ that may not make perfect since, but guess what the wii didnt make perfect cents either. look at where they are now

The DS got a new naming pattern cause it's sort of a new handheld that is almost unidentical to the old Gameboy series.
It features something entirely different, Dual Screens and Touch Screen, which plays out much differently compared to the GBs, so it's only logical that it's given a new name and not Gameboy.foreversai

I don't know how much I'd go with that

I mean the 1st Gameboy wasn't color

Then a color handheld came out and it was Gameboy color

Then when they made a handheld smaller they just called it the Gameboy Micro

Each one was different then the Gameboy but it was still branded Gameboy

your logic ultimately phails. what you have described are things that are nothing more than additions to an already existing product. DS however revolutionized the way of handheld gaming somewhat thattotally

No, they're not additions

Each one changed the scope and direction of the handheld

Each time Nintendo wanted to take a different direction they still branded it with the name Gameboy. Something they never did with the consoles. The farthest that got was the SNES coming off the NES success. From that point on they upgraded but left the "NES" moniker in the past.

The Gameboy brand was stuck on everything that was handheld. No matter what was changed and how Nintendo's handhelds evolved it got the Gameboy stamp.

The Gameboy name is tired and is thought of as a children's toy, if you're going to mass market appeal then you need to pick something that caters to a larger audience.

Look how Nintendo has evolved their consoles. once they left the "NES" part of the title they went to the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, and now just the Wii. Nintendo doesn't even think that it should have the Nintendo name in front of it. They want the market to see it only as "Wii"

They're done the same thing with it's handhelds. It's gone from every single handheld they make branded with Gameboy until they finally came with with the Nintendo DS which they just want the market to refer to as "DS"

fine the more I hear it the more I'm starting to like the sound of "gameboy DS". I mean after all, it was the best handheld ever, it represented one of the best times in my life, and it was my first video game, the point in which I turned into a gamer and got all those systems and whatever.

which is why it would sound nostalgic to me. and nintendo dont want that, again they're moving in a new direction. now what we need is a virtual console for the DS, and the ability to lay gameboy games. that would be the ultimate

I believe it's because they wanted to appeal to an older crowd.

Adults would think of a "gameboy" as "that toy their kids play with". It couldn't possibly appeal to them.

Its a completley different system from the gameboy, so it is called the Nintendo DS.

My grandma is so use to my gameboys she even calls my DS a gameboy. It has gotten to the point where I just call it a gameboy too.

Hey, guess what. I'm a game boy!

I believe it's because they wanted to appeal to an older crowd.

Adults would think of a "gameboy" as "that toy their kids play with". It couldn't possibly appeal to them.

k1DBLITZ

I agree with K1DBLITZ, the DS focusses on a broader audiance than the original gameboy did though a broad name would be logic.
Perhaps it was the "boy" in GAMEBOY that hindered the name, it's a rather cliché name when you think of it

I've only heard Gameboy DS in a Wal-Mart one time when a parent was asking what it was.

Gameboy DS sounds, retarded.