I bought every Nintendo Handheld EVER.

I just bought every single Nintendo handheld ever and while we've seen PlayStation Home consoles we've seen Nintendo Home consoles this is by far the craziest Evolution ever on the channel because it begins all the way back in 1980 when Nintendo dropped their very first handheld game console The Game and Watch it's hard to believe this is from over 40 years ago a time where there was no Nintendo Wii there was no Xbox there was no PlayStation for a lot of people this game and watch was the very start of what would become modern day gaming and the whole thing started just because one day Nintendo's head of research and development gun pay yokoi saw a bored businessman who resorted to playing with his calculator on a bullet train in Japan and suddenly had a genius idea a portable device that could both play a proper game and also tell you the time or very literally a Game and Watch Right it definitely feels a little disposable in terms of the materials okay so you click the game a oh my God and we're off there is no boot up time here at all so the aim of the game is you gotta catch as many of these balls as possible without dropping any it's phenomenal that early games used to play at like two frames per second the entire objective is just to get as high score as possible but this is fun the buttons are slightly mushy feeling they're not super precise like modern day controllers I can't believe this is like the origin of modern gaming in my hands right now the console was inspired by a calculator in more ways than what it uses the same LCD technology for the screen its 4-bit processor is not much more powerful than one and because they've had to draw on this screen overlay to add detail each Game and Watch console can only play one game so this one here is ball which is the very first one they made but there was also octopus where you had to collect gold while avoiding the deadly creature they even made dual screen ones like Donkey Kong which might remind you of a certain other console and because Nintendo didn't compromise on the quality of the games themselves many people found themselves buying not just one or two but anywhere up to the no joke 60 different Game and Watch consoles that Nintendo ended up making pushing the total sales fig account up to 43 million but by the time it came around to Nintendo's next Generation handheld in 1989 the Game Boy they had so much more power to work with that they could do the previously impossible this is the first time we started to see significant accessories in the Box tons of tutorials which I guess developers have nowadays just got smarter at integrating gradually into the games themselves oh free Tetris man I used to have so many of these game cases back in the day you get earphones which look pretty cheap and cheerful A Link cable which is how you would play multiplayer games and then the Game Boy itself now while it's very hard to exactly compare the power of these two consoles because you know the game boy is a proper video game console that's rendering real graphics and outputting them to its LCD display whereas the gaming watch was just basically lighting up pre-drawn segments on screen just to give you an idea the age pitch processor in the game boy is very approximately 40 times more powerful and this extra power means that it can run games at up to no jokes 60 frames per second in not just one color but four different Shades of Gray which would help developers build objects with texture and depth okay so if you turn it on from the top oh my God everything moves so slowly listen to the quality of the audio that's the Zelda tune in the most retro way that I've ever heard it and then you've got a contrast slider on the side which allows you to kind of tweak it for the environment you're viewing it in I'm getting like palpitations right now the things that a song can do to a grown man it's really hard to see exactly what's happening on this the brightness is so low kind of have to tilt it at just the right angle but when you do that this is mild ahead of what the gaming watch could do the buttons have a little bit more of a springiness to them I guess what strikes me the most about this is the potential scope of the games you know when you're lighting up like pre-drawn sections on an LCD screen that's all that's ever going to be but it suddenly feels like the possibilities are Limitless you could live out your wildest fantasies you could have any Adventure that you could think of on this console it's kind of beautiful but none of this was the most revolutionary part of the Game Boy what truly promoted this console to Legendary status the reason why even now the term Game Boy is still practically just shorthand for games device for a lot of confu used but well-meaning parents is that this was the device that popularized the interchangeable cartridges you literally pull one game out you stick a new on it and this seemingly simple feat on its own meant that this one console had more capability than the entire collection of 60 different gaming watches the only thing the Game Boy was missing is color which is why nine years later Nintendo knew exactly what they needed to do they released a hardware revision so massive that most people consider it a separate console entirely this is the key important probably also where Nintendo peaked when it comes to the volume of manuals it's like an encyclopedia inside this box and then the console the Game Boy Color was basically the Game Boy of the future it was the first console that I ever got as a kid and I remember pining over this thing for years literally drooling as I walked past it in store cabinets up until the day it happened and that's because compared to the Game Boy this thing is more compact in every Dimension barely half the weight but somehow with two times the CPU power and three times the ram which all makes it about 80 times more powerful than the original game watch oh boy you can feel my Nostalgia meter Rising it's a little bit rattly as a piece of hardware there but when I was a kid this was the sexiest piece of tech that you could own it's actually insane the difference that the gift of color can make it's almost like I've just unlocked a whole other sense it's not very often that a gaming console gets to do that plus Nintendo has mastered the buttons this time around the d-pad is kind of soft and quiet but then the A and B buttons are responsive and snappy I have a whole other appreciation for the Game Boy Color now this is insane well there are some exclusive games that do take advantage of the extra power the color has it largely plays basically the exact same library of games as the Game Boy with the extra power being used to either add some color shading to original Game Boy games that were designed without color or for the color exclusive games render them in up to 56 different colors at any one time and then the cherry on top for the game boys was that they were also basically uncontested like there were other handhelds the Atari Links the Neo geopockets the Bandai Wonder Swan whatever that is but none of them had this magic combo of color display interchangeable games and well Pokemon which add these consoles to take the World by storm selling a total of 119 million units which is so many units that by the time it came around to the next console there was a lot of genuine excitement for it so Nintendo did what anyone would do in their situation they kept the core Game Boy DNA for their next Game Boy Advance but they also made sure that everything else about this just screamed I am a true next-gen monster apart from the fact that they're still wrapping their consoles like a bag of crisps now unlike the Game Boy Color which was kind of like a halfway upgrade the advance was built from the ground up as a true successor and what really strikes me about it is just how much of a shockingly generous offering it is for starters it comes with not one but two CPUs one next Generation arm processor to play proper meaty GBA games but then also a last gen chip which is added just to make the console completely backwards compatible with both Game Boy Color and original Game Boy games I know it looks completely ridiculous but who does that and there's more the Gameboy Advance added two shoulder buttons expanding the possible abilities for game complexity and the fact that it's also ballooned in width makes it well nicer to grip with two hands and it somehow did all of that while being cheaper than the original Game Boy launching at around 170 in today's money versus 217. right it's definitely a meaner looking piece of tech than the Game Boy Color it inspires confidence in its power this is going to be a very memorable startup screen oh so many hours so many days so many years I've spent listening to that oh there's so much more motion going on his hair actually bobbles as I'm walking around with him they've also managed to add some of the UI that was previously buried away in menus on screen in the corner there which is just a very simple quality of life Improvement you can now do because of this extra space on the screen you can feel the further refinement of the controls here as well they've noticeably tightened up the d-pad it doesn't feel mushy anymore it actually feels quite Nimble and reactive yeah and the other thing you can notice is the amount of different shades of color available like just within this one frame there's like 45 different shades of green and it really adds to the detail of individual objects excuse the pun but this does feel way more advanced it's so weird that I'm absolutely gushing over 20 year old technology but this is what happens when you start from the beginning and work your way forward you get to appreciate Decades of progression happening in like 10 minutes only problem was because the display wasn't backlit we went to Great Lengths to try and make sure we could still see the thing at night which brings us to the Gameboy Advance SP where nintended to fix that problem I'm just remembering how quickly my smugness when I had the Game Boy Advance turned to jealousy with my brother got one of these bad boys because honestly this was the most stylish way to play Game Boy advanced games the SP was colorful fully rechargeable for the first time ever it had a backlit display that you didn't have to worry about as foldable which was not just awesome but it also gave you a more natural angle to see your games from considering that this was just a refresh and not even a new platform in of itself the SP sold phenomenally well actually embarrassingly slightly more than the normal GBA I guess the design and the quality of life improvements here just allowed it to hit a market that the original didn't which pushed the overall sales of the platform to 82 million but it's really the Nintendo DS where things probably started to kick off for this company oh by the way side note pay attention to just how much Hardware is being pumped out by them at this point the DS came just one year after the GBA SP which came just two years after the GBA there is a lot of progression happening very quickly and this is also by far the company's most premium unboxing experience you've got manuals the full Super Mario 64 DS game I guess Nintendo's way of Shifting units fast from the very beginning a charger because at this point it's just a given that every handheld would have rechargeable batteries two more games as this is the VIP launch pack leaving a spare Styler since case I don't know your kids accidentally ingests your first one something about this clean metal and black look it makes us feel quite futuristic compared to where we've just come from now if we read between the lines of this packaging when the company gives you this much stuff for free the reason why is because they're not confident that it's going to sell well it's them trying to treat people at the start of its launch cycle making sure they have absolutely everything they could possibly want and that the reviews are as good as possible and you can see why the term DS stands for dual screen and this whole concept was a bit of a shock when it was first revealed I mean if you ask Gameboy Advance users what they wanted to see on their next concert or I can't imagine more screens was very high on their list and given that the closest looking console so far to this was those funky gaming watches that were no more than toys in these days it was very easy to see the DS's design as a useless gimmick so what was Nintendo thinking why didn't they just play it safe and release Another Game Boy game well Nintendo foresaw that the touchscreen was about to become a huge part part of how people interacted with their devices they realized ahead of even the very first iPhone that having touchscreen controls offered a level of intuitiveness that anyone could understand broadening the appeal far beyond the traditional button mashing gamer and when they followed up this Hardware with games that actually took advantage of it like Nintendogs that let you interact with these adorable puppies and Dr kawashima's Brain Training which tested your entire family's reflexes and mental math it genuinely did find itself in the hands of many first-time console owners but what really sealed the Nintendo DS's fate was that they managed to do this while not just appealing to casuals just like their last console the DS was equipped with a whole separate CPU just to be able to play previous gen games and even a completely separate slot to be able to insert them into which because the Game Boy Advance lifecycle was so short this console was many people's first chance to experience those games too but then also when it came to the next gen DS games the new processor in this was blindingly fast between 5 and 10 times faster in terms of raw number crunching putting us all right ready 3 200 times more capable than the gaming watch but an even bigger jump in the sense that this was really the first time that you could even think about playing proper 3D games on the go and the fact that this thing has 125 times the amount of ram as the GBA allows you to have a full home system too this is such an iconic piece of Kit many many many good times were had on this machine right here I also remember the fact that it folded was a very cool feature back then although while the hinge does feel pretty solid now for anyone who's used one of these for seven years straight not so much it's the one weird console where there's no power switch but in fact a power button oh yes they've definitely played into the fact that this is a sophisticated console for people who want to have a proper home screen experience Picto chat to be fair though even though this is not modern tech it does actually feel surprisingly responsive like genuinely not far off Samsung's most recent Flagship phones and this right here was the first time I'd ever seen emojis remember I felt so smart with my like DS UI and every time you want to go back home the system shuts down oh wow this is a full-on 3D Adventure this definitely feels like a generational leap from the Game Boy Advance I don't know why they assume that touch screen control was the best way to do this it's actually so nice not having to angle the console perfectly just so I can see the screens now and then they refreshed it starting with the DS Lite which wasn't as revolutionary as the Gameboy Color or the Gameboy Advance SP but still it had up to twice the battery life and also a design and colors that appealed to way more people leaving this to actually be by far the best selling model of the DS and then because the DS was just such a hit and because console makers tend to make more and more money the longer they can stretch out the life cycle of that platform as the core Hardware becomes cheaper over time Nintendo made a third major revision with the DSi and the DSi XL three years later you'll notice that compared to how packed the original launch DS box was this thing only comes with a spare stylus a charger and a console Nintendo isn't too worried about making a good impression at this stage more just trying to find ways to whittle down the costs and make as much profit as possible and you saw this in the console's features too the DSi finally ditched the Game Boy game slot that Nintendo had held for so long and it also introduced DS eyewear which kind of sounds like a virus but was basically games and apps that you could download directly through the Nintendo DSi shop and give more money directly to them that said given that this is now 2009 and smartphones were a thing the DSi did do a good job at helping the DS keep up it had an overclock chip it had two cameras could take and edit photos support SD cards up to 32 gigs and play music and even browse the internet and probably the most significant introduced the idea of an Excel model which would stick for the entirety of the next generation of consoles and so if we total up these 3DS models you've got the DSi the DS Lite and the base DS their combined sales total was an absolutely astronomical 154.2 million units making the DS the second best-selling console platform of all time at this point and also nearly double of what Sony managed with the PSP which was arguably the only real handheld threat Nintendo ever faced but then from these dizzying Heights Nintendo funnel their next console the 3DS was similar to the DS in that it also delivered something that no one was really asking for but this time they Place their bets in the wrong place Glasses free 3D technology you can really tell that Nintendo are trying everything here they're almost going for a scattergun approach to try and accidentally land on what the DS of the future should actually be like you've got code cards because this is the first Nintendo handheld to launch with a proper online store augmented reality cards I guess Nintendo were just trying to make sure their console could do this just in case AR suddenly became the new standard in gaming but it ended up becoming one of the 3DS's many gimmicks it even comes with a full-on charging dock and then as for the console itself it's like a DS but I would say even more modern with this metallic gradient finish and two-tone coloring on the inside now to get one thing out the way I thought the 3DS was mind-blowing when it launched it was around the time where 3D movies were peaking with the first Avatar film even becoming the biggest box office hit of all time and to the idea that not just 3D movies but also full-on 3D games were all possible without big chunky glasses on this tiny little thing it was revolutionary and a sub to the channel would be and then 10 out of 10. see the 3DS's top screen uses something called a parallax barrier to separate the image that it shows to each one of your eyes it shows one eye one thing and the other eye the exact same scene but from a slightly different perspective and this recreates our normal three-dimensional Vision which works in the exact same way each of your eyes sees the same thing from slightly different viewpoints so I remember not actually getting one of these 3DS's till quite a long time after it launched and then when I got it I was like oh my god I've been missing out on so much power it on this is my first time seeing the 3d effect in a long time there's still nothing else like it it really is a magical effect oh the user interface feels significantly more fluid every icon has its accompanying sound effect and animation and it all runs at 60 frames per second it definitely builds upon the bass that the DS established oh the music wow it runs like butter not to mention that the game has far more polygons on screen as well as running at a higher resolution the other thing which I think is quite subtle but it's just kind of the nature of where games are going is that the character actually moves faster in this one people have got very used to the idea of having a sprint button oh my God I completely forgot and you've got a joystick there's probably a big part of why it also feels more fluid the other cool thing is that because both of these screens are higher resolution than last generation you can see maps with much more detail than you used to be able to I should probably mention there was also a Nintendo 3DS XL which is the one that I personally bought and used and honestly this is a big bit of Kit they really weren't kidding with the word XL and for scale the 3DS is around five times more powerful than the DS with 32 times the amount of ram so comparing all the way back to the beginning thousand times Improvement the SE specs make it much more powerful than most people expected but this is also kind of the big problem with the 3DS Nintendo fell into the classic new console trap see whenever a company makes a console that does well that console becomes a brand the Nintendo DS in this case and that brand because people have such fond associations with it is worth a lot of money and so with the 3DS Nintendo did exactly what you would assume you should do with that information retain as much of that valuable DS brand identity as possible in this new product however they didn't separate it enough in terms of the way it looks the way it functions and the way it's named the 3DS doesn't come across like the five times more powerful completely new platform that it is if you're a casual Nintendo DS user and you see this new 3DS on the Shelf what are you gonna think you're going to think well it looks like a DS that can do 3D I'm not going to pay today's equivalent of 330 just to do that this is around the time that Nintendo also launched the Wii U which suffered from the exact same problem and both of these consoles had a very rough start because of it plus while the 3D itself was a technical Marvel the fact that you had to sit at the exact right angle if you didn't want the Parallax barrier effect to mess up meant that no one used it beyond the party trick and for many it was just headache inducing which is why Nintendo made the 2DS a console that fixed the price launching at just 165 dollars in today's money and fix the 3D by removing it wow this might actually be the ugliest console I've ever held in my hands and then not too long after the new 3DS which is terrible naming because what do you call it when it's not new anymore but yeah this was the console that actually fixed the 3D aspect by adding a front camera that could track the position of your eyes to then make sure that it was feeding each eye those two separate perspectives not to mention an even faster processor and the second little joystick I remember I was playing a lot of a game called Monster Hunter at the time when this came out and this Tiddly little stick was an absolute Game Changer so these console revisions did somewhat help to turn the 3DS story around but to be honest it was mostly when they started releasing exclusive games like Pokemon X and Y and Animal Crossing that required people to have a 3DS to play that Nintendo managed to pull up the console sales to a very respectable seven to six months then all of a sudden with their next console Nintendo just got it the switch is the biggest upgrade they've ever made so we had the original switch in 2017. you've probably seen this one it was most people's first time ever witnessing Nintendo games in full HD it's both a Home console and a handheld it had controllers built inside of it that can be used by either one person or two it's got a kickstand to play multiplayer on the go got the Wii's motion controls baked into these controllers and the icing on the cake is that it's relatively free from expensive to make gimmicks there's no double screen there's no 3D whoa there is absolutely no competition between the quality of the gaming experience Now versus last year I don't know if I'm just biased by the consoles I've just looked at but this looks photo realistic to me right now it's got incredible depth of field everything's got so much texture and the lighting is gorgeous and it's actually really nice to be able to have one big screen to enjoy that content on as opposed to two little screens you wanna know why well the Nintendo switch is not five times faster or ten times faster than actually 106 times more powerful than the 3DS but when you compare it to our lowly gaming watch from the beginning gives us a figure that's basically impossible to comprehend a 1.7 million times Improvement they then perfected this with the OLED switch which again has tons of stuff in the Box I guess due to the complex nature of having a hybrid console two controllers in a premium matte white finish love this I think these are awesome an AC adapter HDMI cable controller attachments to turn each half controller into its own full controller the Joiner to turn two halves into one for one the dock to connect to the TV and then the console itself even though this is not like a higher resolution screen or a more powerful console just having this OLED Tech which means that each pixel is individually lit as opposed to having one big backlight it makes so much difference I'm fully immersed but then also Nintendo realizing that they could save a lot of this fat by just making a switch solely for use as a normal handheld created the switch light it's kind of crazy this thing requires basically nothing in the box but to be fair the fact that this thing can still deliver the same games for half the price is nothing to be sniffed at and so this Trifecta together when paired with games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Animal Crossing New Horizons and Super Smash Bros have already managed to sell 120 million pieces so the switch might well be about to become the best selling console of all time all right let's get them together into 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Channel: Mrwhosetheboss

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Keywords: nintendo, console, handheld, gameboy, switch, ds, 3ds, sony, xbox, pokemon

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Length: 23min 8sec (1388 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2023