Well, personally the 3D on the 3DS gives me a very awful headache from eye strain and a little bit of dizziness too. I actually turned it off in the parental controls so I can launch the games "in 2 d" instead of accidentally hitting the 3D slider (because I'm a klutz) and slamming my eyeballs into a visual brick wall with spikes in it.
It is definitely aimed at kids though. The buttons are closer together for small hands, there are no delicate hinges to break, and no 3D to hinder their eyesight development. 3D can really mess with a kid's ocular development and it's pretty serious. I mean, we develop eyesight problems the most later on in life, but having to deal with vision problems all your life because you played some dumb games in 3D and didn't realise it was bad for you? That would suck. I'm all for the 2Ds. One of my friends actually has a 2Ds instead of a 3Ds like the rest of us but I think he's got vision problems already, wears contacts and his eyes hurt a lot.
And just because it's marketed for kids doesn't mean it's
just for kids!! There's no "Silly gamers, 2Ds's are for kids!" going on here. People can buy and use what they want. I don't want a Vita or PSP. I like the gameboy/DS platform as I have since my very first lime green GBC. There's something simple and comforting about a handheld platform's games that aren't often very similar to console games, which have more screen area to work with and more processing power. Maybe I'm just some crochety old traditionalist, I don't know.
