I've seen this sentiment quite often on these forums by many users. It intrigues me. I assume it is because of the small screens historically, but with today's handheld consoles that's pretty much not a problem as the larger screens scale well with the shortened distance from the user and it isn't that essential. Otherwise, it could be the type of games, but even then the Vita has many console-like offerings and the 3DS has high-budget epics as well. Finally, I thought of the controls, but the Vita is quite well-adapted for console players, and the 3DS controls tend to work with its library. So why does handheld gaming turn you off?
*Note this is purely a curiosity of mine, as I don't really segment handhelds from television or monitor set-ups: to me they are all very much aligned.
