I hope so - they're on sale for $198 AUD at Big W Australia (online and instore) for one day only today (Saturday 8th December) - and I just bought one! That may sound expensive to others, but believe me - for Australia - that's a really good price!
Should be delivered by midweek.
Reasons I bought one -
1) Better DS games resolution/size. I have a lot more DS games to finish than I have 3ds, so that appeals.
2) I bought a DSXL for my partner (9 months or so after I bought a 3DS - it was ) - and she loves it - and I love it more for playing my DS games on. The bigger screen made my DS games so much brighter and bigger - slight pixellation visible - but I like the effect overall. Big huge screens *2 is awesome.
3) I can transfer my 3DS eshop purchases over to my new 3DS!
4) I love the DS/3DS platform - have 40+ cards. And have a DS, DSLite, DSXL, and 3DS already.
5) My 2 3/4 year old son absolutely loves Peppa Pig and Wariorware Touched - but also the photo/graffiti thing on the 3DS. Now I can give him the 3DS to muck around on and worry less about breakage.
6)It was available in RED! My 3ds is boring grey/black...
7) I generally found the little dpad and analog nub on my 3DS a little too small for me. This may be because once I tried the DSXL out, going back to my wee little 3DS was a shock!
Overall - pretty weak reasons, and probably more tied to my personal love of the DSXL and DS/3DS platform overall. But I hope overall that it's worth it!
