Well to answer your question, yes absolutely. DS should have no issue still passing it.
Now as for the second part, we've definitely covered this before. I know there are many people on this site and other forums that like to make their own opinions and decisions on what they consider is a "new system" or console. But, the only real way to define it is by the maker's of the system themselves. Nintendo has confirmed that the 3DS is indeed a new system and not in the DS line. Therefore it is the next generation console, not a new model for DS like DS Lite, DSi, and DSi XL were.
So when it comes out, yes we will have to have a new tracking bar for it.








