After showing the appearance of the 2016 Nintendo Switch prototype, the curators of the Forest of Illusion social channel have revealed an absurd detail that emerged from the 0.40615 version of the Nintendo DS firmware.
In fact, the managers of the museum dedicated to the conservation of video games and consoles of the past explain that they have received the Test version of the very first Nintendo DS firmware. The system software of the dual-screen portable console of the Kyoto house, reports the Forest of Illusion team, included settings for the blood group selection!
The integration of this unusual parameter, as easily foreseeable, would have caused a lot of discontent (and just as many doubts) among the buyers of the first hour of Nintendo DS, both because of the annoying privacy intrusion of users that would have occurred due to the objective uselessness of sharing such information ‘for videogame purposes’.
In the discussion fueled by this discovery on social media, however, there are those who remember how, at the time, Japanese technology companies used to insert the blood group among the parameters and standard information required of their users to configure newly purchased electronic devices. A all-Japanese custom which Nintendo thankfully abandoned for the global launch of the DS and its subsequent desktop and portable consoles. Speaking of Nintendo consoles of the future: here you can find the reflections of the GIbiz boss on Nintendo Switch 2.
