No not at all, it does go against Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy on a few aspects, mainly just how affordable it is, even at 250 its not as far out as people would have you believe once you take into account exchange rates, the weak US dollar compared to 2004, inflation, etc.
Anyway the 3DS strongly encourages the philosophy they founded with the Wii, something the DS didn't have outside of select software titles, and that would be the social philosophy. Game coins/step tracking/tagging encourage you to take it with you when going to the store and such, Face Raiders encourages getting others involved, the AR cards and games are games you can really show off to friends, you can take pictures with your friends in a way you couldn't with a normal device so many just flat out overlook the .3 megapixels.
Basically they're fusing together Gunpei's philosophy with a new philosophy and doing it with their handheld this time.
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