ok but am I the only one who thinks of the DS Lite when they think of the Nintendo DS, and didn't even see an OG DS for a few years? It feels like even Nintendo themselves saw the original model as an unfinished beta product and barely advertised it, but then after the Lite model launched you couldn't go a full day at the time without seeing an ad for it.
unrelated but I went through like 2 or 3 DS Lites when I was a little kid entirely because that little sliding power switch would just Die. Like the rest of the console would be fine but the power switch would stop power switching. It sucked.
Then I got a DSi XL and I still own that fucker today and it STILL HAS THE ORIGINAL BATTERY THAT LASTS HOURS. It never broke bc they replaced the sliding switch with a regular button that never broke.