I remember back when the 3DS was being boasted as a powerful portable piece of hardware, but as of late, I havn't seen anyevidence of that. Is it just me, or is it substantially weaker than even the Gamecube? I'm just curious is all.

....is this a troll post?

Its definitely weaker from a poly pushing+texture perspective. It has a more advanced GPU though so it can pull of tricks like bump mapping better then the gamecube.

Raw powerwise i think the 3ds is between the dreamcast and the ps2, but of course the shaders it utilises allows game like RE:Revaltion which looks like it should belong on the Vita.

I have no doubt that there were some things the GameCube could do better by sheer virtue of being a console (and thus needing to output higher resolution than a handheld), but the 3DS' more modern GPU is capable of achieving better effects in some areas than the Wii.

For all that Pokemon X and Y have done, they are an outlier in the weaker direction. Compare Mario 3D Land to Sunshine, or RE Revelations to REmake

Paging Kaizar :P

No i have trouble running ds emulators on my gaming pc lag free.

luigi mansion 1 vs luigi mansion 2?

resident evil 0 or resident evil 4 vs resident evil revelations?

legend of zelda ww vs legend of zelda ocarina of time?

super mario sunshine vs super mario 3d land?

animal crossing vs animal crossing new leaf?

mario kart 7 vs mario kart double dash?

paper mario vs paper mario sticker?

smash bros melee vs smash bros 4?

mario power tennis vs mario tennis open?

ohhh maybe we will see pikmin 3 on 3ds soon :O

Weaker than the gamecube? It's not even as powerfull as the dreamcast.

Shenmue a game from 2000 : http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/0/e/a/gfs_26893_2_1.jpg

The legend of Zelda - Ocarina of time 3ds,a game 11 years later : http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2011/130/reviews/997842_20110511_screen004.jpg

I think the 3DS has the edge, but the system is still accounting for a lot more than the previous handhelds would be, like the GBA essentially just being a portable SNES with supposedly inferior sound, but I'm not even sure about that given Wario Land 4 arguably has more impressive sound than any SNES port the system had.

On a personal note, I still think it was lame that Mario Sunshine didn't get a port at launch. :P