I think the main issue was that $250 price tag during launch which after they did that huge price cut in the same year lead to a loss per unit... Anytime Nintendo or any other company releases a new hardware, it gets media attention anyway but the main reason as to why the 3ds is winning so much is cause of its games that is targeted towards a broad audience as well as a consistent first party support.
I do use the 3d often during games cause I like glass free 3d. My issues with 3d movies and etc has always been the need to wear glasses and everytime I go watch a 3d movie, I just fidget around with the glasses like every 5 minutes and its soo annoying so imo, the 3d on the 3ds was a nice move but it was no way required to sell units
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
