Practical question: Why get a 3DS or Vita instead of a tablet?

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oniyide said:

This, my smartphone could surf the net easily, Youtube and all and its a piece of crap. You cant play stuff like uncharted, Mario, Resident Evil, Ninja Gaiden, Mvs.C3, etc on a tablet.  IMHO tablets are the biggest wastes of time ive ever saw. they dont have the functionality of laptop and only have a little bit more than your average smart phone, I would question why one would buy tablet

I'd have to disagree with you on many points.

Smartphones (as well as tablets) run do youtube and pretty much anything else media/entertainment wise perfectly fine. Idk what type you have but, I can do anything on my phone that I can do on my PC. I can even sync keyboard if I wanted to make it quicker for typing etc.

Sure they won't play the same games or run high-end software for many specific jobs. But for casual use, education, etc... its just fine.

Then there's one major difference with notebooks specifically. Portability. A phone or tablet is far more portable and easier to utlize away from a table than a notebook. 

While they don't replace someone's work computer or a gaming machine (yet), they are perfectly fine for anything else.

Hell, a tablet could replace all that so long as it had a dock to make it a touch monitor and sync'd to a kb/ms. No difference then... what do you think Win8 tablets will look like by end of this year?