Gaming Heaven...

[Bolivar]

When you do so, will you be able to list games outside of franchises whose best days are long behind them?

Probably not, and that's why the Vita offers a much more comprehensive library on 3 fronts. 1) Its exclusives are actually innovative titles coming from new IPs, to go alongside fresh franchises. 2) Like any great system, it has wonderful versions of some of the best multiplatform games. 3) It cherry-picked the best and the brightest indie games of the last few years and now those games are releasing day one on Vita, some of them exclusively. If you haven't noticed, each of these 9 games represents a unique genre.

Its hard to go back to 3DS sequels when the Vita's library is so much more fresh and exciting. I enjoyed Fire Emblem Awakening and Etrian Odyssey IV in spite of them being stuck in the Stone Age of JRPGs. A Link Between Worlds, my favorite game, epitomizes the first sentence of this post, as I yearned for the challenge and originality of Link's Awakening and Ages/Seasons. Mario 3D Land drives it home with great gameplay soured by short and easy levels filled with recycled ideas. Little Big Planet was everything I hoped Mario would be - hearty levels flavored with fun surprises and innovative mechanics, making full of use of the touch screen, track pad, and gyroscope. It also has a great user-generated content community, seamless online multiplayer, and one of the most innovative approaches to local multiplayer I have ever seen on a handheld.

The Vita is one of those rare systems that both drives and rides the cutting-edge of gaming, while the 3DS watches it pass by. You seem only concerned with the library and I can see why. The 3DS falls even further behind compared to what the Vita can do: Remote Play for every PS4 game, the wider range of apps, free to play mobile titles, and the cross-buy program. I've also had a lot of fun with Lone Survivor, Street Fighter x Tekken, Unit 13, ModNation Racers Road Trip through PS+ and I get more free games every month.

I know you prefer the 3DS, but as someone who has spent a ton of time with both, it's not even close.