LOL

I think the only interesting thing on this topic will be to see when the 3DS will have 10 times more units sold than the PS Vita worldwide...

That's so violent. This example is much more rated PG

Except the Vita costs as much and sometimes even less than the 3DS and still gets rejected by the market. It's not a premium device. It's not a Ferrari.

Compelling argument.

Bad analogy when talking consoles.

Too many people think consoles themselves are the Fiesta or Ferarri.  That is not how it is. 

IT'S THE GAMES.

Lets use your TV example.  Lets say I have a time machine and go 100 years into the future and bring back the top of the line tv from that time period.  Hardware wise it woudl run circles around any tv in todays world, BUT it probably can't watch a single channel or play any games or watch a single movie.  So what good is it?  It's basically just a fancy decoration on the wall.  Or whatever tv's are like in future.  But I doubt you could just plug your PS4 into it, most likely uncompattable cables, same for caple tv or whatever.

That's how you should look at a gaming console.  Doesn't matter how technically amazing a console mafy be, if it doesn't do what it's meant to do "PLAY GAMES" then its just an expensive decoration.

Now the Vita has 6 million consumers, so obviously some people think its more than a decoration.  But at the moment the general consensus, which sales show, is that the 3DS is the BETTER console.

This IMO is more correct view. The games themselves are the Ferarri or the Fiesta or whatever metaphor you want to use that satisfies your comparison of premium vs cheap.

When I look at a certain consoles to see whether it is worth a buy I look at the games it offers and can offer. The experience I will have with the system, the types of games, how many of those games there are, how good they are, how good they _look_ (even though that is an umpopular opinion around here sometimes), etc.

Even so, based on past records ill even buy a consoles before it has proven itself, case in point the Wii and the DS, which in hindsight were rather poor purchases for me because they were utterly lacking in fun most of the time because of my tastes. Contrast that to the PS3 which I bought, if memory serves, 1-2 years later than the Wii, and within the first few months of owning that system, because I had waited to purchase it after knowing full well the games it already had, I was able to enjoy it far more than the entire time I had already owned my Wii.

Contrast that with the current gens both console and handheld. Ill go with the handheld side, since its the exaple in the post I've quoted. I'm one of those 6 million who prefer the PSV. Simply because the 3DS does not offer what I want. I wanted the single screen, dual analog, modern screen, handheld with both past and present RPGs. I simply cannot get that experience with the 3DS. It matters little that the PSV is the more expensive technically more robust device. It matters that it offers exactly what I want, which are Ferarri games.

I disagree. The 3ds was dead for a while. I mean dead dead. It didn't have as bad of sales as the Wii U, granted, but in proximety to the success of the 360/ps3/wii/ds when it first came out (compared to the mediocrity of those consoles sales now) it was probably proportionally worse off than the wii u has been for a while. It's hardware means nothing. All people (including myself) care about are pricing and games with the familiar characters when it comes to Nintendo. I feel confident that Nintendo could pump out a 64 bit handheld console for $30 and $5 N64 games (redesigned for the handheld) and it would sell like crazy. 

When it comes to Nintendo, nobody cares about graphics or hardware. It could be amazing looking or visually underwhelming, as long as it's cheap and has the usual games it will do well.

-A 3ds and Wii U owner

@dharh

Modern screen, the PS Vita has 540p resolution screen while the 3DS has a Glasses-free 3D screen which OS only in 4K HD TVs.

Best RPGs past & present, the 3DS has Tales of the Abyss 3D & Project X Zone & Code of Princes & Paper Mario Sticker Star & King of Pirates (trilogy) & Kingdom Hearts 3D & Dillon's Rolling Western 1 and 2 & Bravely Default & Beyond the Labyrinth & etc.

And Netflix & Hulu Plus streams 3D movies, Pacific Rim anyone. And full digital 3D movies to download are coming to the eShop. Don't forget the 3D camera to record 3D videos and take 3D photos with way more post processing of the images then the Vital can do, because they both got underclock CPUs, but clearly one is underclock lower the the other as shown in post processing of their cameras images. And Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate does more then 130 million polygons in Vertex Performence on both Handhelds (both 3DS & Vita seperate versions, as the developers of Warner Bros. have confirmed). And there's this:

240p 3D > 4K HD 2D > 1080p 2D > 720p 2D > 540p 2D
Just had to clear those things up.

See 3D is the only thing I think a handheld can use to compete image wise with next gen consoles when we got to full Virtual Reality. Otherwise everything looks too flat.