Is the dedicated handheld market really dying or simply returning to normal?

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zorg1000 said:

RolStoppable said:
It's not dying and it's not returning to normal either. It's declining, because the 3DS isn't a good design and the Vita is a complete failure. That decline can easily be reversed in the next generation; that is, for the company that will make another handheld. And if that happens, everyone will look at the 3DS as the outlier in the line of Nintendo handhelds, because it's the only one where Nintendo made really stupid decisions.

Other than 3D screens which added to the cost of the system, what are the stupid design choices Nintendo made with 3DS?

It basically is a DS2. Even if you don't like the 3D, no game requires it and it takes 1 second to turn it off. The $250 thing doesn't really carry much water with me because it was only that price for like 3 months of its entire lifecycle. 

Nintendo made a lot of mistakes with the GBA and DS too ... the GBA screen was *horrible* lol. I remember it was pretty much unusable unless you have direct sunlight or were directly underneath a light to play it. People were going to the trouble of risking destroying their GBA to try and mod it by adding lights to it before Nintendo released the GBA SP. 

The DS' first year was really slow too and the design was ugly and bulky.