This was one of the first ultra long arguments I had on videogame forums. I was on a forum called listranker or videogameranker or something like that. It was late 2012 and Vita was already borderline dead. I just could not understand for the life of me why some people genuinely thought Vita was better. I still can't. 3DS has it all. Better price. Better games. Backwards compatibility. More screen real estate. Folds into itself. The only thing Vita has going for it are graphics, but even that's a stretch because 3DS has 3D mode which IMO adds way more to games than any other graphics feature. Not to mention that graphics are meaningless if the price is too high.
Vita has 59 games on metacritic rated 80 or above, with most of them being multiplatform games.
3DS has 93 games on metacritic rated 80 or above, with most of them being unique to the system.
I have over 30 3DS games, and I don't buy ports or indies for it.
If I built a Vita collection I'd have to ignore that pretty much everything is on PS4 now. And even then I'd only wind up with 13 games I really wanted to play.
