Things that don’t and will never exist are so much fun to talk about. For instance, during an interview with CNBC Nintendo President Saturo Iwata admitted that the company had scrapped a new handheld that they’d not just been working on, but had actually completed. It appears that this handheld was going in a different direction than the DSLite and DSi as Iwata stated that “when we are launching new hardware, the most important thing is to sustain the momentum. If introducing new hardware won’t do anything to do that, well…”

So it looks like they went with the DSi because it kept with the DS and thus would maintain the popularity of the system. Not too bad a choice considering the DSi’s astronomical sales. One can’t help but wonder what this other handheld was though. If you remember way back to when the DS first launched Nintendo claimed that they weren’t abandoning the GBA platform, and that the DS was simply another way to game. Maybe this handheld fell more in line with the GBA or something.