I really enjoy the fact that this game console can play Both the Game Boy Advanced games along with the new DS games. Each 3-inch screen can reproduce a true 3D view, with impressive 3D renderings that can surpass images displayed on the Nintendo 64. Most functions (for games on both the DS and Wii consoles) were discontinued worldwide on May 20, 2014.

Following lukewarm GameCube sales, Hiroshi Yamauchi stressed the importance of its success to the company's future, making a statement which can be translated from Japanese as, "If the DS succeeds, we will rise to heaven, but if it fails we will sink to hell. The Nintendo DS also features the ability for multiple DS consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to an existing wireless network. Certain DS games (such as Animal Crossing: Wild World) will also not pause, but the backlight, screens, and speakers will turn off. citation needed] Although the Nintendo DS of other regions cannot play the Chinese games, the iQue DS can play games of other regions. million units, [10] making it the best-selling Nintendo system, the best-selling handheld game console, and the second-best-selling video game console of all time, overall, behind Sony's PlayStation 2.The company did not provide many details, but stated it would not succeed the Game Boy Advance or GameCube. In the launch period, The Prince of Tennis 2005 -Crystal Drive- ( Konami) and Puyo Puyo Fever ( Sega) were released.

It features four colored buttons like the ones found on regular Guitar Hero guitar controllers for the stationary consoles, though it lacks the fifth orange button found on the guitar controllers.Two bundle packs with specially created Nintendo DSi systems, each printed with images of both Reshiram and Zekrom, will be available – choose from either Pokémon Black Version with the Nintendo DSi Reshiram + Zekrom Edition (Black) or Pokémon White Version with the Nintendo DSi Reshiram + Zekrom Edition (White) and prepare for battle. Nintendo considered a larger model of the Nintendo DS Lite for release, but decided against it as sales of the original redesign were still strong.