What was the point of the "New" 3DS?

[d21lewis]

Scisca said:

padib said:

Are the games so much better on the Vita that you wouldn't wait for it to be hacked before buying it?

And on a portable, are Vita graphics so much more important than 3DS graphics? You're on the go, typically graphics are secondary, and 3DS allows good enough visuals for games like Bravely Default and Fire Emblem. It all depends on how much effort the devs wants to put in.

I'm asking but I realize that everyone has their preferences.

Yes. When I compare Vita and 3DS, it's a difference of a whole generation in quality. 3DS is more like PSP than Vita to me. It looks cheap, has underwhelming visuals, yet costs more than a Vita! That is something I don't accept as a customer and I refuse to support such practice. It's blatantly obvious, that development of 3DS games is cheaper than developing Vita games, so I can't justify the higher price. 3DS experience has to be cheaper than Vita for me to buy it.

That's always been the case in portable gaming.  durning the Gameboy days, consoles like the Lynx, TurboXpress, etc were coming out sometimes with the ability to play full console games--not ports-- the ACTUAL games.  The cheap ass GB was killing em all. I think Nintendo just realized what mobile gaming discovered: people will settle for less when it comes to portable gaming.