Nintendo DS family

The Nintendo DS family is a family of handheld consoles that started with the Nintendo DS in 2004. The family appears to have been succeeded by the Nintendo Switch.
The family is characterized by then-novel input methods for handhelds, including touch and microphone input, integrated cameras, gyroscopic motion control, and augmented reality. Some elements of the Nintendo DS family are present in older Nintendo consoles, such as the clamshell form factor, which was previously used in the Multi Screen series of Game and Watch games and in the Game Boy Advance SP.
==Consoles==
===Nintendo DS line===
*Nintendo DS (2004): The first console in the family. Compared to the Game Boy Advance SP, the Nintendo DS is distinguished by wider proportions, a second screen with resistive touch, two more face buttons, a microphone, and wireless connectivity.
*Nintendo DS Lite (2006): A lighter and slimmer model of the Nintendo DS.
*Nintendo DSi (2008): A major revision of the Nintendo DS, similar in design to the Nintendo DS Lite, but adding two digital cameras and a new operating system with an online game store (discontinued in 2017). It was the first handheld in the family to remove backward-compatibility through the Game Boy Advance cartridge slot.
*Nintendo DSi XL (2009): A larger model of the Nintendo DSi.
===Nintendo 3DS line===
*Nintendo 3DS (2011): The successor to the Nintendo DS line, featuring glasses-free stereoscopic 3D on the top screen, a Circle Pad, an accelerometer and gyroscope, a 3D outer camera and cards that integrate with augmented reality, the StreetPass and SpotPass communication systems, and various preloaded applications.
*Nintendo 3DS XL (2012): A larger model of the Nintendo 3DS.
*New Nintendo 3DS (2014): A major revision of the Nintendo 3DS, with face tracking for improved stereoscopic 3D, two more shoulder buttons, a nub-style C-Stick (backward-compatible with the Circle Pad Pro accessory), and built-in amiibo NFC support.
*New Nintendo 3DS XL (2014): A larger model of the New Nintendo 3DS.
===Nintendo 2DS line===
*Nintendo 2DS (2013): An entry-level Nintendo 3DS model lacking stereo 3D and audio. It is also distinguished by its slate form factor, rather than the folding clamshell design of other consoles in the family.
*New Nintendo 2DS XL (2017): The current final canon model in the Nintendo DS family, a variation of the New Nintendo 3DS XL without stereoscopic 3D. Unlike the Nintendo 2DS, it uses a clamshell form factor.
*New Nintendo 2DS (fanon, 2019): A smaller model of the New Nintendo 2DS XL, which removes the ZL and ZR shoulder buttons but replaces them with L and R shoulder buttons.
*Super Nintendo 2DS (fanon, 2020): The New Nintendo 2DS but it can be closed, has its own game info channel, NFC reader built in and is as big as the Wii U.
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