Cool, good post.

Especially the mipmap difference between 5th n 6th gen, i didn't know that.

I didn't know u was so knowledgable in graphics Rol. I fought u didnt care about grafix.

You know, to say that the top one is on a screen roughtly a fifth, it not, much smaller, than the bottom one, and in 3D...

Oh to hell with it, the only reason you aren't getting a 3DS, based on this evidence, is because you're blind

Why thank you

All in all, just actually stand there and look at it. You've gotta remember about the difference in the size of the screens as well as the contrast and poor picture quality. Take all that into account and maybe games look Wii standard

A good review, Cone, but I feel it impertinent to hi-light this segment. You claim that Nintendo have raised the bar as to how we game but this implies that an addition of 3D has any effect on how we game. It doesn't. Like much of what Nintendo has done over the past few years, it is gimmicky. That's not to say it's bad nor that nintendo is bad but it is to say that that's all Touch Screens, Motion Sensors, etc, etc are: Gimmicks.
It's been emulated and performed by other companies too. And yes, the majority DOES affect how games are played but does it neccessarily create immersion? No. Perhaps it would help were these items not whored out but that's economics. Fact is, Street Pass: Already been done, Spot Pass: Also, already been done. AR, sure - a little different but honestly? I see little in it.
But I honestly don't see much use in these concepts generally (And Cone will attest this (I'm a BIG hater on most things)) when they don't get put to proper employment. Sadly, game producers don't do this. Apart from those accociated with the console producers.  All it does is make gaming accessable to a mainstream party (The public as opposed to nerds) at the cost of reduction in quality.
Granted, yes, the 3D IS awesome. It just won't matter unless this handheld, producers are kicked up the collective metaphoric arse until quality gets to what it was.

Rol, did you get Ridge Racer too?...if you did, what are your opinions on the game?

This ^^

The 3DS is supposed to be between the Gamecube and the Wii in terms of eye candy, and I'd say that it's a fair bet that it's also more powerful than the Wii in terms of processing power (as opposed to the power of the individual GPSs for each). You've also got to remember that all 3DS games are displaying two images at the same time as well as having two seperate frame buffers for each image.

The guys from High Voltage have said that there's a lot more under the hood than developers and publishers are giving it credit for, and I think we'll all be pretty gobsmacked by the Resident Evil games and Metal Gear Solid 3D when they're released later on this year. High Voltage ported a proof-of-concept demo of Conduit 2 to the 3DS using the same assets and the same shader effects that the Wii SKU uses which ran at 30fps without being optimised.

And due to the PICA200 using traditional shaders rather than forcing devs to mess around with an unwieldy TEV Unit (that the Gamecibe and Wii use) we'll see more shader effects being used by all developers on the 3DS platform.

Ummm maybe some of the games are garbage but actually Ghost Recon seems to have turned up quite nicely (haven't played it yet, it's still on its way, but reviews and player comments in neogaf all agree).

ok, but for Ghost Recon I am talking about player reactions (in Neogaf...) as well.

Now what's this?

Are you saying the top screen is better than the bottom one? No is isnt, there's much more detail in the bottom one.

lol, you win