Seriously, it's not.

(personal experience) - it blurs a lot less in action sequences. A lot!

(technical point) It does not darks the image. And has degrees too.

To me only the viewing angle is a problem, but you soon get used to fit your eyes in it - especially if you don't go all out on the 3D slider. The rest, I consider everything far superior. Darkening is not negligible, imo, colors become much more bland and lifeless. And the blurring sometimes gets critical. I watched Hugo Cabret and it worked most of the time great - since there's a lot of quiet scenes (with lots and lots of first-plane gears for you to admire). But Tintin (last action 3D movie I saw - no more of that for me thanks) sometimes gets so frantic that my eyes can't catch up and the 3D image melts like butter. And yet, Kid Icarus on the maximum 3D degree on difficult 9 works great.

Anyway, the point is. It's not superior. Maybe to you, but to me and others, it's not. And is innovative. Even today, if you show your 3DS to people they get amazed.

Pezus said
"There is no data except feedback from this very forum. Most people appear to turn it off, at least the biggest gamers here I see. And that is besides the point. 3D is not innovative in any way. Even PS3 does 3D.

You could do some research yourself. I don't even know of a game that doesn't use the back screen in some form."

1. Wrong, most 3DS gamers say the dont use it at full power

2. I think, by the articles i read about it, that the game that uses the back touch panel the most/best is FIFA soccer....enough said.....its an irrelevant feature and a gimmick (that doesnt even work as a gimmick)
but its innovative, ill give you that....

3D is not innovative by itself
a glasses free 3D handheld is innovative, or at least unique

Allo.

THis, I thought i was the only one. Glasses>no glasses.  I find the 3D glasses gives you a more immersive felling. I prefer the pop out of the screen effect more than the depth window effect. Thats not me taking a jab at  3DS i have the damn thing and i enjoy it, but i find myself rarely using the 3D feature, and this is coming from the guy who thought the 3D would do for the 3DS what motion controls and touch screen did for Wii and DS respectively 

The 3DS needs software just as badly as Vita does. For the 2nd year straight, Nintendo is relying on a Mario to keep sales above 'subpar', while bringing nothing else of value over from Japan or by releasing timed-exclusive games for the West. Nintendo of America has been absolutely terrible for going on 3 years. To be honest, even if Japan's major hits would not sell more than 250k here, that is still ~250k Nintendo is not making profit from.

I personally haven't purchased a 3DS and do not plan on it because of this. Their strategy just screams tired.

the less the sales are the fewer games they will come from JAPAN
its a deadly spiral
its always been like that
its users fault
Nintendo only brings to the west games that are going to sell, theres no enough demand for those games nop matter how good they are
its a bussines decission, and you cant blame Ninty for that, but users that dont buy Japanese games