No one has ever heard of the Game Boy Advance 2 because it was scraped off the design table to make way for the Nintendo DS. Satoro Okada, former Nintendo R&D General Manager recalled how he thought that the DS two screens were unnecessary and how his team never liked the design. But if not for Satoru Iwata, then Nintendo president's insistent prodding, the DS would have never come to life.

According to Game Zone, Okada was all set to develop the Game Boy Advance 2 when suddenly he was asked by then president Satoru Iwata to do a special project. Okada said the GB Advance 2 was codenamed Iris since it was the fifth generation of Game Boy and Iris was the flower for the fifth month of May.

Everything was going smoothly when President Iwata said that their console should have two screens. The Nintendo president wanted to depict the design of the Game & Watch which had dual screens because of its limitations. Iwata wanted the idea very badly and this was despite the R&D team hating it. No one completely understood why they had to make a console with two screens.

Okada and his team resisted the idea but the president insisted. Everything had to be redone and they had to start to square one, said Tech Times. Little did Okada's team know that the dual -screen console would revolutionize touch screen gaming and will become the most popular handheld consoles in the planet.

After the success of the Nintendo DS and the Wii, the company will further improve console gaming with their new creation: the Switch. The Nintendo Switch is a hybrid handheld and home gaming console in one device. The Switch allows users to switch from a console to a handheld gaming device in just a flick of a switch. This will come out on March 2017.

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