2004 listing first generation of DS since and two revisions DS Lite and DSi, total global sales of Nintendo DS has more than 110 million units, the global handheld market share of over 60%.

While the Nintendo until chips are IBM and ATI, but recent industry sources, Nintendo will at the end of next year (probably the 2010 Tokyo Game Show) release the successor DSi, and has selecte NVIDIA Tegra platform.

Although yet to identify specific models, but the next DS will use the second-generation Tegra SoC, based on 40nm technology, Cortex-A9 multi-core ARM architecture, with GeForce 9-class graphics core.

Single-chip design simplifies DS internal structure, in line with Nintendo’s style to simplify the hardware platform. In addition, Tegra could have single open platform for ARM core, run the old program, so the new DS game is compatible with previous generations models.