Category:Nintendo DS

The Nintendo DS (codenamed Project Nitro) is Nintendo's current generation high-end handheld. It features dual screens arranged vertically, a touch-sensitive screen for input, 3D graphics approximately on par with the Nintendo 64, and backwards compatibility with Game Boy Advance games. However, it lacks compatability with the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color. It also has microphone and wireless Wi-Fi for multiplayer play. The DS stands for Dual Screen and Developers System. In November 2005, Nintendo introduced Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to the DS, the first system to have this. This allowed gamers to play each other all over the world in games such as Mario Kart DS and Tony Hawk's American Sk8land.

The Nintendo DS Lite was announced on January 26, 2006. Many people complained that the original Nintendo DS was too bulky; Nintendo fixed this problem with the Nintendo DS Lite, making it much sleeker. It was released in Japan on March 2, 2006, and released in the US on June 11, 2006. The Nintendo DS Lite also has brighter screens than the original DS with different levels of brightness.