The amount of thought that went into the naming of the Nintendo DS had to have been massive because Nintendo had to have known it was going to sell like hotcakes. DS makes sense, if it stands for Dual/Double Screen, that is, but what were some of the console’s code names?

During a WarioWare DIY interview, Satoru Iwata said the following:

“Iris was the codename of a next-generation device we were exploring to succeed the Game Boy Advance-in other words, before development of the Nintendo DS. Eventually, it became a two-screen device with the codename Nitro, which went out into the world as the Nintendo DS. So, broadly speaking, Iris was the foundation for the Nintendo DS.”

via siliconera