All through its a few years of operation as a producer of video video games and platform holder, Nintendo has created a number of the most fascinating objects within the historical past of video video games. The corporate is famend for making digital novelties to please gamers of all ages, but it surely’s additionally able to constructing staggeringly stunning {hardware} when its proficient engineering and design groups put their minds to it.
Not each single one is an evergreen magnificence, in fact — it’d take a brand new iteration on the unique design, or a very fetching color variant to essentially get the heart beat racing — however Group Nintendo Life has been casting a wistful eye over our collective console pool (and spying a couple of others’ collections throughout the interwebs) and has produced the next shortlist of the loveliest-looking Nintendo {hardware} to your consideration.
We’re not factoring within the respective programs’ software program libraries right here, though these alone are sufficient to make any self-respecting gamer go weak on the knees. No, we’re specializing in the pure animal magnetism of the {hardware} itself: the console and the controller. Overlook about persona — at present we’re occurring skin-deep appears to be like alone.
There is a ballot on the finish so that you can forged your vote for the sexiest Nintendo console from the shortlist we have assembled, and be at liberty to tell us different consoles (Nintendo or in any other case) that encourage lustful ideas and languorous hours scrolling via public sale websites within the feedback.
Earlier than that, although, seize your self a fan and put together to perspire as we current to you, in no specific order, the eight sexiest Nintendo programs ever. They’re all actually actually actually ridiculously handsome…
Sport Boy Micro (any)
We have referred to as this little magnificence ‘the sexiest and most impractical Sport Boy ever’, and we stand by that. Do not get us mistaken — in terms of really enjoying video games, we are likely to go for the consolation of bigger handhelds as of late (the chunkiness of an unique DMG-001 nonetheless feels improbable within the arms).
No, by way of really utilizing the factor, this last iteration of the Sport Boy Advance line is not a lot better for enjoying text-heavy titles than Sega’s latest keychain pendant, the Sport Gear Micro.
Practicality be damned! The Sport Boy Micro — in any of its guises, not simply the anniversary version pictured above — is a surprising (and stunningly costly) piece of equipment. It exists solely to reap your love and respect; to be cradled, caressed and doted upon.
Not performed. Are you mad?! For the love of Zeus, by no means play the factor.
Sexiest characteristic? The place to start? The superior little faceplates? These little ‘b’ and ‘a’ buttons that really feel so good? Let’s go along with the tiny display screen which appears to be like marvellous because of its elevated pixel density.
Marvellous till you wish to learn something, in fact.
Sport Boy Advance SP (any)
The primary model of the Sport Boy Advance wasn’t dangerous. The horizontal structure was extra snug than the vertical set-up Nintendo went with for the unique Sport Boy, however you wanted the sunshine of a thousand suns (okay, slight exaggeration — simply the one solar) to see the display screen. The Sport Boy Advance SP solved that concern with the addition of a backlight (technically a frontlight, until we’re speaking concerning the up to date AGS-101 model with the improved backlit display screen) and its clamshell design made it smaller, with the additional advantage of defending the display screen when it is in your pocket.
We may have chosen the NES version, or the Pikachu Yellow one, or any variety of Particular Editions, however private desire apart, every GBA SP is a magnificence.
Sexiest characteristic? The clamshell design — there’s simply one thing a few gadget that folds.
New Nintendo 3DS XL (SNES Version)
In relation to the 3DS household of programs, there is not any scarcity of variants to select from. Throw within the numerous 2DS variations and a plethora of particular editions and also you’re spoiled for selection in terms of fabulous-looking handhelds.
If we needed to choose one, although, it might most likely be the Tremendous Nintendo Leisure System Version of the New 3DS XL. It is not simply the colored face buttons; the usual New 3DS with the faceplates had these, too. It’s the care and a spotlight that is gone into different features of this handheld tribute. Issues just like the delicate gray touches of the bezel, stylus and the peripheral buttons, and the thought-about recreation of the SNES’ look on the lid and backside. The truth is, the one factor that would enhance it’s if the printed pink Energy ‘LED’ on the highest really was an LED.
In relation to NA versus EU/JP, we Europeans are somewhat biased (extra on that later). However no matter your desire, however they’re each very, very good-looking programs.
One’s simply extra good-looking.
Sexiest characteristic? The buttons, most likely.
GameCube (Spice Orange)
Twenty years in the past when the typical teenage gamer had to decide on between the PlayStation 2 and the colorful GameCube, Sony’s extremely slick styling stole away the hearts and minds of tens of millions of self-conscious teenagers who had beforehand been Nintendo children via and thru. Nonetheless, wanting on the two consoles at present, we might say it is Nintendo’s field of tips which has stood the take a look at of time from an aesthetic perspective.
This little console has such persona and spunk — actually fairly the design feat for what is basically a field with a deal with connected. A clear, cared-for instance of any color variant is a factor of magnificence.
Maybe the truth that we by no means obtained the Orange Spice model within the West offers that exact one a particular attract, although. No fewer than 5 members of Group NL have been compelled to trace down this pretty creature for themselves. Throw in a replica of F-Zero GX and a WaveBird and also you’ve obtained your self a Saturday evening.
Sexiest characteristic? How extra orange may this be? None. None extra orange. Oh, and the deal with’s nice — all the time has been. Provides you one thing to carry onto, doesn’t it? [Steady! – Ed]
Panasonic Q
As if the Japan-only Spice Orange GameCube wasn’t sufficient, the Panasonic Q had us eyeing imports again in 2001/2. This particular Panasonic-branded model of the GameCube had the power to play DVDs by way of its full-sized front-loading tray. Which may sound like nothing as of late, but it surely’s onerous to overstate simply how scorching DVDs had been across the flip of the millennium; PS2’s twin operate as a DVD participant was a significant component which helped propel Sony’s console forward of the competitors. The Panasonic Q additionally sports activities stainless-steel housing, a polish mirrored entrance panel, and a elaborate LCD display screen with a blue backlight, probably the most sensual of backlight colors.Sadly, it offered poorly and as of late a clear specimen will value you foolish cash in your public sale website of selection, though there are all the time bargains in the event you’re affected person. It will probably be a disappointment within the flesh anyway, however the thought of the Q nonetheless will get us going a few a long time later (which means it causes us to trawl eBay as soon as a fortnight to double-check that, sure, costs are nonetheless astronomical).
Sexiest characteristic? It is onerous to pin down only one factor. Let’s go along with the extremely un-Nintendo mirrored façade.
Nintendo DS Lite (any)
Nintendo DS Lite arguably represents Nintendo’s most dramatic leap ahead in a single {hardware} revision. The preliminary DS was a chunky monkey, extra of a proof-of-concept showcase than a last piece of retail {hardware}. The arrival of the DS Lite in 2006 was the catalyst that turned the system into the demographic-conquering behemoth it grew to become.
There’s actually not a ‘dangerous’ color within the batch. We had been all the time fairly a fan of the Lime Kiwi Inexperienced one, ourselves.
Actually, the Lite did not must do a lot to be smaller, sleeker, and infinitely sexier than the unique, and we’re saying that as folks with fond recollections of the DS ‘Phat’, because it’s recognized colloquially. Maybe, although, the perfection of the Lite was solely potential because of its ungainly forebear. The DS Lite was the Swap to the unique’s Wii U… perhaps.
Sexiest characteristic? The distinction between the gloss end on the skin and matte on the within was, as we are saying in there enterprise, ‘a little bit of all proper’.
Tremendous Nintendo
Opinion amongst Nintendo Life employees is split alongside territorial traces in terms of which model of the Tremendous Nintendo is loveliest.
Whereas acknowledging the sultry sophistication of the Tremendous Famicom and its near-identical European cousin, our minority US contingent had an comprehensible tender spot for the redesigned North American model, with its purple highlights and the concave lilac ‘X’ and ‘Y’ buttons. Conversely, no European on the group would go to bat for the boxy NA model, actually not in opposition to the curves and classiness of the EU console.
The European majority can completely recognize the nostalgic attachment to the console of 1’s youth — and people concave buttons are fairly nice, we’ll offer you that — however in terms of selecting between the 2, we’ll simply must conform to disagree and hope it by no means involves a vote.
Talking for the NL ‘many’ versus ‘the few’, the Tremendous Famicom is each bit as reliably stable because the North American model, but additionally coquettish with its dashes of color and delicate curves. It is enterprise and pleasure in a single delicate, near-perfect package deal.
Sexiest characteristic? Oh, let’s be diplomatic and go along with the colored or concave buttons, relying in your area.
Wii (any, besides the ‘Mini’)
And eventually, we come to the plucky little Wii. Famously simply three stacked DVD circumstances in dimension, this shiny little surprise was a breath of contemporary air in a staid gaming panorama full of hulking nice packing containers. The grey-silver stand propped the unique up at a jaunty angle in ‘vertical mode’ and it sat there unassumingly beside your TV, simply desirous to have enjoyable.The fiddly little wire trailing from the sensor bar to the console is probably the most ugly factor concerning the cute little console and we have got nice recollections of coming downstairs within the morning and being greeted by its little blue gentle pulsing away.
The Wii is a cracking little console in any hue, and it is aware of how one can have an excellent time. There’s a lot to be mentioned for a brand new system that appears nice perched subsequent to the telly; one you don’t want to accommodate in a completely new leisure centre.
Sexiest characteristic? The blue gentle emanating from the tray-less drive when it sucks in a disc. If solely these discs had the curved edges of its successor’s video games… *bites lip*
Can an inanimate object be ‘horny’? Sure, in fact it might. Foolish query!
Tell us beneath which of the high quality specimens above have you ever dashing for a chilly bathe. And, in fact, be at liberty to share your personal private preferences in terms of some fine-looking {hardware}, together with you private favorite particular version variants — there’s actually sufficient of these! We’re off to eBay to seek out a kind of pink anniversary Wiis…
