My friend has one. I swear, if I had a nickel for every pixel in the screen.. I'd have a damn nickel.
You know you don't have to stuff your fat face against the screen when you play. If you were literate and/or actually used your skill of understanding language, you could read from the manual that you should hold the game about 20cm away from you.
As I said, just a matter of opinion. And for the screen thing, the iPhone, Galaxy, and most over touch screens out there were made for touch and durability, you don't see a stuffy screen in those tho.
Iphones, Galaxy, Price: 500$-900$
3DS, Price: 190$
And you have to notice that Wii U sold 350$ for the premium 32GB memory console on launch.
PS3 on its "32GB" version was sold for 600$ on launch.