Nintendo DS (2004)

✅ Nintendo DS

🥇Best-Selling Handheld Video Game System of All Time

The Nintendo DS, launched in late 2004, was an experimental handheld system that went on to become the best-selling portable gaming device in history. Its most famous feature was its unique Dual Screen design, which paired a standard top screen with a bottom touchscreen that players could tap and control using a plastic stylus pointer. Beyond the touchscreen, the pocket-sized system introduced built-in Wi-Fi for local and online multiplayer games, a microphone for voice commands, and a secondary slot that let users play older Game Boy Advance cartridges. While the original launch model was a bit chunky and heavy, its massive success completely changed handheld gaming, laying the groundwork for decades of portable dual-screen hits.

Source: Retro Games Plus