The success of the 3DS has vindicated Gunpei Yokoi and the Virtual Boy

[Mandalore76]

NoirSon said:

Wyrdness said:
Not really as the VB is more comparable to the virtual reality devices we see today which seem to have gone quiet rather than the 3DS.

Yeah, Mr. Yokoi did not invent 3D, he just tried to help Nintendo put it in console devices. The Virtual Boy also failed because they tried to market it as VR like we are seeing today when really it wasn't and the black and red visuals proved a detrimental. 

The 3DS while successful in doing the objective the Virtual Boy failed at, it also went about it in a completely different way so the Virtual Boy isn't in anyway vindicated. 

The Virtual Boy, among other problems, was miss-named.  The Virtual Boy did not attempt to replicate "Virtual Reality" in the vast majority of its games, with some exceptions like "Teleroboxer".  What it does do is presents games in stereoscopic 3D, which is exactly what the 3DS does.  So, the 3DS didn't go about it in a completely different way.  The 3DS is the full color stereoscopic 3D handheld that Gunpei Yokoi was looking into developing as the Virtual Boy before it was clear that the technology would be too expensive to release.