The success of the DS paved the way for its successor, the Nintendo 3DS, a handheld gaming console with a similar dual-screen setup that can display images on the top screen in stereoscopic 3D.

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The handheld is outfitted with identical speakers contained in larger speaker enclosures, enabling them to produce louder sound. While retaining the original model's basic characteristics, it features a sleeker appearance, larger stylus, longer lasting battery, and brighter screens. Game cards may be hot swapped when the console is set to the main menu, allowing players to switch game cards without shutting down.Brightness and volume controls are on the left side; five brightness settings—one more than on the DS Lite—are available. Two special-edition models were released: those for LovePlus+ and the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. After all, what's better than chomping down on a mega mushroom, growing to kaiju size, and bulldozing your way through a stage as a titanic version of Mario? On April 15, 2010, the DSi was launched in South Korea in white, black, blue, and pink, alongside the game MapleStory DS.

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On January 29, 2014, Nintendo announced that Nintendo DS games would be added to the Wii U's Virtual Console, with the first game, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! Running your own village and customizing your character were still the primary driver here, but the introduction of online components that made the visit to neighboring villages proved that Animal Crossing was the perfect game for a market of simulation fans that enjoyed mobile gaming. Iwata said that cost restraints had, until then, limited the screen size and multiplayer aspects of portable game consoles, and that the DSi XL offers "an improved view angle on the screens", which makes it the first "portable system that can be enjoyed with people surrounding the gamer.Remakes of the best Pokemon games, Gold and Silver, were always going to be a smash-hit, but Nintendo went the extra mile when it gave the classic pair of Johto-region games a DS makeover. Not just an RPG that boasted exquisite design, innovative ideas, and an adventure with epic stakes, Dragon Quest V was an old-school epic that deserved to reach a wider audience. A quick hands-on investigation led them to abandon the dual-slot design, which made the DSi approximately 0. The DS certainly helped in this regard, and any newcomers to Dragon Quest who picked up this DS remake of a classic fantasy adventure quickly discovered that they had been missing out on some excellent gaming over the years.