The new model was both smaller and lighter than the original DS, with improved screens that offered additional backlight brightness levels, and a new look inspired by Apple’s iPod designs. It might seem a strange move with the original model still under 18 months old, but Nintendo was keen to capitalise on the success of the format, with noting that “the handheld accounted for nearly 45 percent of all software sold in Japan last year”. The magazine also reported that “the most common response to Lite so
