Welp, I must say that I wholeheartedly agree with the OP's premise.
For some reason, I ranked up hours and hours and hours into the original Nintendo DS. Mostly for its novelty, but also because it is a beast of a machine with quality games here and there. However, I was a kid back then, and had so much free time to spare that it is not even funny the amount of hours spent into hobbies back then.
Fast forward some years and now everytime I get some time for myself, I am mostly at home. I can't seem to get into 3DS, no matter what. I remember playing the Resident Evil Revelations demo and thinking to myself how awesome it was; Capcom released a physical console version, which I nabbed, and never looked back.
I have Fire Emblem Awakening sitting there, waiting for me to finish it; but I just simply can't do it. I can't seem to boot up 3DS and start playing properly without getting tired of the handheld and switching to play on my computer or the console. At this rate I pretty much doubt I'll ever get another game for my 3DS (aside from Phoenix Wright; which undoubtedly I'd rather have them release on WiiU or somewhere else).
Every time I look at the 3DS, I get disenchanted with it more and more.
