Types of content included programming teaching the user how to do magic tricks, Japanese idol sumo wrestling, sports, and 3D dating, among others. Total Nintendo 3DS first-party software sales for the month hit more than 2 million units, the highest since December 2011. All Nintendo 3DS consoles are region locked (software purchased in a region can be only played on that region's hardware). As people walk by in the background, the game takes their pictures from their faces, also adding them as enemies.

The Switch is a hybrid video game console that can be used both as a home console docked to a television or taken on-the-go to be used as a handheld system.

Sam Byford of The Verge noted that the larger top screen makes more obvious problems with aliasing and low-resolution textures. Another attempt was made in preparation for a virtual navigation guide to be used on the Nintendo DS at Shigureden, an interactive museum in Japan. The graphics processor (GPU) is a PICA200 developed by Digital Media Professionals, running at 268 MHz.

I wouldn't have minded had we actually received a new battery and replacement game but we never have. The original DS display resolutions are displayed in a scaled and stretched fashion due to the increased resolution of the 3DS's screens. It was also announced that the 3DS possesses a market share of 50 percent of all video game systems sold, and that Nintendo 3DS software sales rose from 850,000 to 1,700,000 year-over-year in the region. On September 28, 2012, the system launched in two other regions, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in Blue + Black and White color variations.

Despite concerns from critics who felt that the company was trying to de-emphasize the 3D functionality by releasing the 2DS, Nintendo maintained that 3D is still part of their future plans. The Nintendo 2DS (abbreviated to 2DS) was announced on August 28, 2013, as a new entry-level model of the Nintendo 3DS family. The system features two separate ports, one for DS Game Cards and one for Game Boy Advance Game Paks. Nintendo 3DS games can only transfer a maximum of 32 MB of data to other systems while in download play.

The system contains 128 MB of random-access memory (RAM) consisting of 128 MB of FCRAM developed by Fujitsu, with a peak bandwidth of 3. Play with sound:Play music on your DS, experiment, record, create and play with sound using the DSi Sound application. This console, while still capable of playing Nintendo DS and 3DS games, removes the 3D functionality and changes the form factor to a fixed, "slate" design.Despite this, Nintendo continued to investigate the incorporation of 3D technology into later products. According to industry analysts, the timing of the announcement, which had drawn attention away from the launch of the company's still-new Nintendo DSi XL handheld, was likely intended to preempt impending news leaks about the product by the Japanese press.