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Nintendo designed a third iteration of the Nintendo DS hand-held end of 2006, around the time the Wii version. Following instructions from his superiors, Masato Kuwahara of Nintendo's Engineering Department started developing on the DS project. During production, Kuwahara reported that the team had kept difficulty marketing the hand as it was based, and meant to complement, their existing hardware. "We need to sell in a position to be on the consoleown. It has also be able to blend into the existing DS market, "he said.

The idea was to add cameras designed early on: Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and CEO said that the touch screen was the sense of control and the microphone was his "ears". A colleague suggested that the device should "eyes" have. Yui Ehara, the designer of the DS case, called for a change of speaker openings through the redundancy of the design round perforations. TheTeam believed that this change signals a clearer distinction between the DS and its predecessors. Ehara wanted to include new features but also so that the unit "clean" and "easy".

Due to staff demand of fan communities and Nintendo DS original design included the two DS game card slot. However, the panel talk in the company unveiling in October 2007 Kuwahara said that "the answer was not that great, and, … we'd sort of expected that." Thesecondary game card slot is removed, the stripped down the system by about 3 mm (0.12 in), this version was Tokyo showed the public in October 2008 Nintendo Conference, together with its Japanese price and release date. Since its release, Nintendo DS Lite had the better of the contest each year as sales worldwide, but slowing sales of the console in Japan caused Nintendo announce its new iteration. The company was less affectedwith releasing the DSi in other areas where the demand for the DS Lite is still high.

Nintendo Lite had developed 3.8-inch screens for the DS and the idea of a DS Lite with bigger screens wide enough that the company have begun mass production. However, Nintendo DS release is the commercial success of his peter out into, and the company later began efforts on the DSi. Iwata encamped the idea of simultaneous release of alarge and small version of the DSi, Nintendo, however,'s hardware team was unable to develop two versions of the same. Different names for the DS Lite were considered, including "DSi Comfort", "DSi Executive", "DSi Premium", "DSi Living" and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's "DSi Deka" (Japanese for "great").