StarOcean on 10 January 2014
Before this turns into another "hurrdurr itz cuz of da tablitz nd smartfones. handheldz r d00med. consolez r d00med. gming is ded" type of thing, I think a big reason the 3DS is lacking is because its name at first confused the market (a lot of people I know just recently realized the 3DS is not a DS [those poor souls bought X/Y for their DS XD]), also it had negative criticism for the first part of its life. Many unaware of console sales still think of the device as a "failure" (first impressions are important), so it definitely got rid of any possible lead the 3DS had over the DS in the same life span.
