Why are handhelds often seen as inferior or not as important as home consoles?

[Norris2k]

Goodnightmoon said:

Norris2k said:

Saying that the 3DS is equivalent or better than the PS2 in term of hardware says a lot about the lack of ambition of the 3DS games. In term of ambition, GoW3, GT, MGS3, SotC etc. are a magnitude above anything what we saw on 3DS, by far.

That's kind of dumb to say when Metal Gear 3 is on the 3DS and games like Resident Evil Revelation, Kid Icarus Uprising, Street Fighter IV, Kingdom Hearts and Luigi's Mansion 2 look better than nearly every Ps2 game. Look deeper.

I always hate that when someone cut 2 third of an answer and focus on a little mistake to reply only to that.

My point still stand, and is covered in the 2nd part you cut, about being not impressed by games you could already play 20 (here 10) years before. What is the ambition of just adapting MGS 3 10 years later compared to actually making this game from scratch and defining the genre on the PS2  ?