Curated category
Handheld game consoles
- Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch arrived in stores on the 3rd of March 2017, with a proposition that seemed almost too simple: what if the console you played on your…
- PlayStation PortableThe PlayStation Portable arrived in Japan on the 12th of December 2004, and within a single day more than 200,000 people had bought one.
- PlayStation VitaThe PlayStation Vita launched in Japan on the 17th of December 2011, with a queue of eager buyers and more than 300,000 units sold in its first week.
- Game Boy AdvanceGame Boy Advance arrived in Japan on the 21st of March, 2001, at a price of $99.99 in North America, and within its first week in the United States it became…
- Nintendo 3DSThe Nintendo 3DS arrived in Japan on the 26th of February 2011, carrying a promise that sounded almost impossible: three-dimensional visuals on a handheld…
- Game Boy ColorThe Game Boy Color arrived in Japan on the 21st of October 1998, carrying a question that had nagged Nintendo for nearly a decade: how do you add color to…
- Game BoyThe Game Boy launched in Japan on the 21st of April, 1989, and its entire first production run of 300,000 units vanished from shelves within two weeks.
- Nintendo DSThe Nintendo DS launched in North America on the 21st of November, 2004 - a device its own maker described as an experimental "third pillar", neither…
- WonderSwanThe WonderSwan arrived in Japanese stores on the 4th of March 1999 carrying a strange kind of weight. It was the last piece of hardware that Gunpei Yokoi…
- Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo began pre-production of its next console shortly after the Switch's release, with a team reviewing the performance limitations of the original unit.