Opinions/Facts. Besides the 3ds has some games like Monster Hunter 4 which will probably end up being ported to the Wii-u later on. That being a few hundred hour long RPG with mindblowing graphics. You have Resi evil revelations which almost a year after it was on the 3ds came to Xbla+psn and infinately better than the "console quality" Resi evil 5+6 native to those platforms. Castlevania mirror of fate same story.

If you want to start a thread and ask for peoples advice as to what a system would offer you, but then after 80 replies just want to leave the thread with the fact that you haven't listened to a single persons response nor have any interest in the 3ds based on the same ideas exactly as your OP then yeah... there isn't much point for people to spend time posting in future threads like this from you is there?

It obviously does have to do with graphics, what other factor are you looking at to judge wether or not 3DS have ''console quality'' games? You are using screenshots of two different game and claiming that 3DS is not console quality... That almost established that graphics is important to you as a fact. Since you are not playing those games you can't use any other factors.

But let me tell you my point of view... Golden Abyss can be cleared in 10hours or so... Same for pretty much all current PS4 exclusives that are soo much ''console quality''... Meanwhile Bravely Default will take around 60hours from what I've heard, same thing with Pokémon(way more if you want to make the most of the game, I'm at over 100hours). I played Animal Crossing, Kid Icarus, Pokémon and almost MK7 for over 100hours while I cleared most ''console quality'' games in less than 15 and never play most of them again.

But I guess your 10hours of Golden Abyss is a better value than my 100hours of pokémon cause it looked prettier. I'm about to buy Bravely Default, 40$, devide that by 60(if not more), thats 0.66$ a hour. Make that calculation for your ''console quality'' games and tell me how they are a ''better value''. And don't give me the argument that they give less but better hours of game because I assure you that the fun you are having playing a HD game is not higher than the fun I had playing my 3DS games, since you are a indie fan it's something you should understand.

Pros

Good times

Cons

No social life.

What is this concept you speak of?

This thread was completely pointless.

Kid Icarus Uprising

I will tell you ignore the 3DS at all costs.  The start and select buttons don't work properly, the opening lid goes over the L and R buttons a bit, and if you're like me and like to have your index fingers rest on the L and R it's an extreme annoyance. 

The 3DS XL fixes these problems.  The start and the select are changed and easy to press.  The screen when opening up has a extra hinge that makes it forward a bit more so the screen itself is not in the way of the L and R buttons at all.

First off, if you don't own a DS, then the 3DS is worth it for that right here.  While backwards compatibility will show a very noticeable degredation in quality if you leave it full screen, you should be able to get used to it, or you can reduce the size to 40% small, basically the size of the regular 3DS screen(on an XL, 40% smaller if played on a 3DS or 2DS,) and get the full DS resolution with no noticeable graphics degredation.   The reason why is the 3DS doesn't upscale since the screen resolution is not the same as the DS.

There are also a good amount of 3DS games out right now that are really good in my opinion. 

I've only played the demo so far since the game isn't out yet, but before today I was going to wait on picking up Bravely Default.  After putting two hours into the demo, I've since preordered the game and will get it day one.  The games quality is amazing.  Graphically it's not that great, but the gameplay is very good. 

Shin Megami Tensei 4, Fire Emblem Awakening, Super Mario 3D Land, Tales of the Abyss, Shinobi 3DS, and Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate are very good games and the best on the system in my opinion.  Not quite as good, but still good games, Etrian Odyssey, Devil Summoner Soul Hackers, and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.

I'd also recommend not getting a 2DS, not only because the screen size of the XL does make a difference, but also you're missing out on the 3D.  If you haven't used the 3D effect before on a game that does it well, or haven't used the 3D effect at all, then you might brush it off as a poor feature that you have no interest in, but it's actually an amazing feature once you get a game that uses it well.  I had no interest in the feature until playing Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate, and the games 3D is amazing.  The amount of detail of the 3D in that game, everything is on its own layer and has its own depth.  Aside from the underwater parts which I recommend do not use the 3D at all during those parts, I played through the game a second time immediately after finishing it and left the 3D pretty much the entire game. 

Though it is recommended to take breaks if you're using the 3D because it does give you eye strain if played for long periods of  time with the 3D on.  Nothing permanent, but bothersome for a little while afterwards.

I like having a 3DS... but I honestly barely use it.

The 3DS just doesn't cater to my personal taste, but I do enjoy playing Nintendo games in small doses. I'm going to buy Smash Bros.

The Vita appeals to me more, but library of interesting exclusives is too small.

Excellent games and a disappointing Mario Kart entry.