DS

Nintendo DS · 2004–2014

One of the best-selling gaming devices ever made — a dual-screen, touch-driven handheld with a library deep enough to rival any home console of its era. The collecting market is led by late and low-print RPGs and niche releases, by limited and boxed copies of a library mostly sold as loose carts, and by the platform's distinctive authentication challenge: the DS is one of the most heavily counterfeited cartridge systems, which makes verified-authentic complete copies of the grails materially more valuable. An emerging-collectibility platform where scarcity, completeness and authenticity together define a fast-maturing market.