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curl-6 on 18 May 2020
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d21lewis said:
curl-6 said:

I mean, your perception of it is totally valid, but 3DS was pretty underpowered for a system launching in 2011; compare the contemporaneous Vita and it's virtually a generation behind, and two gens behind home consoles for most of its life.

Not much different from DS or GBA in that regard.

It still had a "wow factor", though. Even though I had a Vita, the 3DS held its own. I guess, even though it was around GameCube level in power, it felt fairly modern. 

-The original Gameboy offered crappy 2D at a time when we were used to great 2D games at home.

-The GBA offered great 2D at as time when we were playing good 3D games at home.

-The DS offered crappy/good pixelated 2D/3D at a time when we had great 3D at home.

-The 3DS offered great 3D experiences at a time when we had great 3D experiences at home.

I enjoyed all of them but 3DS just made me feel like we'd finally arrived.

Well, for most of 3DS's life we were playing 8th gen games at home while 3DS essentially offered 6th gen graphics on the go.