I wish I had an iPad Nano. :/

I actually saw a guy with a Vita playing MGS this past weekend, another a week before and a kid in Subway. I actually havent seen alot of 3ds, but i do still see regular Ds. I do get some hits whenever i do take my 3ds with me

yeah because you cant play RE, Metal Gear, Tales of, Super Street Fighter etc on 3ds. The ignorance is funny

I only play my handhelds on the go, why the hell would i play them at home unless its a REALLY good game ala KH BBS

Which most games on Handhelds are good.... :3

I tend to play mine at home more too. I do take my 3DS with me occasionally, but since I don't ride the train or anything I usually find myself not having time to play it out of the house.

The handheld gaming market for older teens and adults is kaput. Smartphones and tablets have killed that need, not just through their own games, but all the various options they offer -- Twitter, checking email, web browsing, video, music, Facebook, etc. etc. etc.

Now if you have 15-20 minutes to kill, your cell phone offers like 10 different ways to keep you occupied.

Gaming handhelds will still have a market in Japan (where they have replaced the traditional home game console) and in the West with kids, but that's it.

3DS has a shot because it has Mario/Pokemon/Zelda/etc. Vita is just plain screwed though.

There's a bit of a flaw in that logic; you don't take into account the popularity of StreetPass among 3DS owners. I have friends who have no interest whatsoever in streetpassing. They only take their 3DS out of the house with them when they actually intend to play games, and they probably never activated StreetPass Mii Plaza. I suspect that somewhere in the vicinity of 40-60% of 3DS owners actually use StreetPass, though of course this is pure conjecture on my part.

However, when you said, "Streetpass features failed hard on getting people to carry their 3DS on the go," I think you hit the nail on the head, for the reasons I just mentioned. Too many owners are simply uninterested in what StreetPass has to offer. I wouldn't exactly call StreetPass a failure, but I don't think it has yet had the effect Nintendo intends for it. I'm sure in Japan it's working wonderfully, and perhaps as the install base grows in the West, urban areas will start to benefit more greatly from StreetPass. But it's never going to become huge in the suburbs.

Of course the 3DS is struggling in the West, but that's about to turn around. It's hard to say what the 3DS's situation will be a year from now, but I think the console is far from doomed.

I do not understand your statement.

He's saying you're cherrypicking, and I'll add, kind of proving UnitSmiley's original point.