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The 3DS has the novelty of 3D. I always wanted to play F-Zero in this form factor and it seemed like a reasonable port to accomplish.

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It seems to me that stereoscopic 3D is as much as "novelty" as is color. It's an objective improvement, because we perceive the real world in stereoscopic 3D. Of course the hardware implementation (not so much on the New 3DS) has various downsides, unlike color.

I don't think color is that different. E.g. older computers had limited color palettes, like 16 color EGA.

I'm saying that more colors are strictly better than fewer colors, not just a "gimmick", and that the same holds for stereoscopic 3D, modulo issues with implementing it in hardware via (auto)stereoscopic screens.

For example, if you play games on a virtual screen using a VR helmet, you pretty much always want the game to use stereoscopic 3D, because playing it without it would be strictly worse. (Okay, it would consume less GPU resources, which is good, but that would be the only difference, and this would also hold for things like lower resolution or frame rate.)

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