Initial D EX was a street racing game being developed by SEGA Rosso in 2007/08. This would have been the seventh game for consoles in the Initial D series, and there was also a series of arcade games. Initial D is a popular manga and anime series about illegal street racing in Japan. It was only rumours that this game would be coming to the DS and many people thought that this was a bogus announcement. This was because only a few images appeared on the SEGA Rosso website before quickly being taken down.
This is actually the only evidence that this game ever existed or was in development. There were various stills of the game with “DS” in the corner. It was never officially confirmed whether or not a DS game was actually ever in development.
This was not the death of Initial D on a Nintendo handheld though, as a free-2-play instalment dubbed Perfect Shift Online was released in 2014 for the 3DS. In December 2014, it was confirmed that this will also have a sequel as it was downloaded over 500,000 times and has proved very popular.
If you know anything else about the DS version of Initial D, let us know in the comments!
Thanks to Marco for the contribution!
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After lots of research and contacts, this redditor is saying this game was fake and that those screencaps are actually from the PS1 game. Check out their evidence here: https://www.reddit.com/r/initiald/comments/nz0151/the_lost_media_initial_d_ex_never_existed/