What was the point of the New 3DS?

[Kennel83]

As others have already mentioned, to keeps sales afloat. Also, have you played on the original 3ds with 3d mode on? That alone is a big improvement on the new 3ds, og model was awful with 3d on, some games were nearly unplayable for me, so much that I turned it off until I could grab a new 3ds.