I'm just going to jump in here because this is the first post I've seen after skipping to the last page.  Now, the PSP was a beast.  I've got like 25 PSP games running on my VIta (and I have a couple of PSP's, too) and some games look like they belong on the Vita.  But, like you, I have a 3DS and a lot of games.  The only game I've seen slowdown was certain parts of MGS3.  But, with MGS Peacewalker running upscaled on my Vita, it's OBVIOUS that MGS 3 on 3DS looks better and does more things than Peacewalker.  And that's with Peacewalker being designed specifically for the 3DS and MGS3 just being a port on.....

FUCK.  Just saw DieAppleDie's post.  That's what I get for just jumping into the thread.

*edit* "Peace Walker looked better in many ways than MGS3D and didn't suffer from the same kind of slowdown."  --I couldn't disagree with you more.  When it comes to the size of the environments, jaggies, the number of polygons in characters and enemies (with a couple of exceptions when it comes to the female characters like Paz and Huey), the things you can do in MGS3 like swim underwater, the cutscenes, etc., I think Peacewalker and it's tiny areas can't compete with MGS3.  It just seems like a scaled down version of one of the PS2's best looking games (w/ God of War 2 being the best imho).  MGS3 is a port that delivers pretty much everything the PS2 game has with a few additions (that don't really have anything to do with performance).

Great job on this!!!!  The question is not whether the 3DS is superior to the PSP (clearly it already is) but how much more superior it is!!!  I say that it is at least 2x-2.5x more powerful than the PSP.  In terms of gauging where the 3DS is compared to the GCN or Wii, I would say that it falls somewhere in between (powerful enough to satisfy my portable needs IMHO).  The arguement whether the system is hindered by the 3D is pretty much nullfied by the fact that PICA200 is meant to dispaly 3D images; hence partly the reason for why Nintendo chose them. This makes the system optimized for 3D use; and the only weakness I find compared to the Wii might be in it's dual-core ARM11 processor which is running  uderclocked anywhere between 266MHz or 350MHz; http://www.arm.com/products/processors/classic/arm11/index.php  .  Overall the system should be pushing anywhere between 15.3-22mil poly/s (PICA200 is running 266MHz) with most effects turned on.  This is a little bit better numbers than the GCN http://web.archive.org/web/20080222190252/http://www.segatech.com/gamecube/overview/index.html (it's at 12-15mil poly/s); but behind the Wii which should be pushing 24mil-30mil poly/s.  The thing the 3DS has an advantage over the Wii, is a more modern GPU that is able to handle better textures and shaders. 

@ Zoidberg

I think it's subjective. I find Peace Walker to have a more overall polished look, there aren't nearly as many blurry textures, it (obviously) runs at a higher resolution, AND the bosses are massive in comparison. Environments wise I will admit MGS3D has a lot more to render. The thing that bothers me most is that both games peak performance are 20FPS, and Peace Walker keeps a constant 20 even with massive bosses and explosions on-screen, while MGS3D chugs down to 12-14FPS just from close-ups or having too much grass/trees(which has already been cutback from PS2) on screen. I would blame 3D as the culprit, but it performs just as poorly in 2D.

I'll give you Rogue, but I'm not convinced the other 3 are doing as much shading as Revelations.

"as much" is relative statement and and Revelation is visually doing more than it is technially. Its only using "2" texture effect(normal mapping and global lighting) and its mapping them globally over a everything. DE Extraction pulled off more than that(EMBM, Bloom, and HDR at the same time).

The enemies aren't even destructable. Also, if you look at the character and enemy modals up close, they're actual polygon counts are really low. Revelations is using what I call the Halo effect.

RE:R has HDR as well.   Also shelf shadowing, depth of field, motion blur (in 2D mode) and other surface shaders.

Show me where it uses HDR. The rest are simple effects that have been done on the GC and Wii plenty of times on a much larger scale.

Just listing attributes categorically isn't saying much. Everything in Revelations was done in small areas with very little going on and other than the normal mapping, the effects were in very small volumes.

Point was you said it only used 2.  Doesn't matter if they've been used on GC and Wii.

As for HDR, just look it up in Google:  Resident Evil: Revelations HDR

No, what I said was that nothing in Revelations showed the 3DS as being superior to the GC or Wii. Please, don't jump into an argument if you don't know what its about. Context makes a huge difference.

It used 2 texture effects that were of technical note. Small scale special effects like depth of field and blur are not worth mentioning as they are. At least not for me. You'd never hear me trying to pass those things are as some sort of huge technical achievement.

I'm not looking for a report on the HDR. I want to see it. I want to see how much and how detailed it is. A lot of people try piont out that something simply exist buts not well it was done.

As everyone tells me, you are the one who made the claim about HDR lighitng. The burden of proof it on you.

Where was the EMBM in Extraction? The Necromorphs and the characters had a similar effect but I'm pretty sure it was specular mapping.

Other M has bumpmapped characters, but so does Revelations. Overlord had a lot of the same shadowing effects but lacked the texturing effects, and Darkside Chronicles seemed to simpler texture effects, (Specularity and EMBM as opposed to normal mapping) and lower amounts of surface mapping too.