The main goal was the new pokemon.

Playing Fire Emblem: Awakening, Luigi's Mansion, and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team were bonuses. ;p

Fire emblem & Atlus game,

Kid Icarus, Fire Emblem, Monster Hunter, Pokemon, Zelda, Bravely Default, Ace Attorney, at least a dozen DS games I haven't played because I never owned a DS (including MM Zero Collection which I'm playing now), the bevy of great eShop and Virtual Console games available (including Cave Story which I've nearly finished).

Why WOULDN'T I have a 3DS??

Because it has a great library

It had games I wanted. A LOT of them. Every respectable gamer should buy one. With the XL version out, you really have little excuse.

Bought the 3DS on launch day, was second in line, and my local store got two 3DS's of each color (2 Aqua Blue and 2 Cosmo Black, and the woman in front of me also chose a blue. So I consider myself lucky, even though that old 3DS is in a little bad shape today. I bought Pilotwings Resort along with it, actually a pretty fun game. Last year I bought a white 3DS XL, that was even better.

But I don't feel the purchase was fully justified until 2013 when Luigi's Mansion 2 was released, SM3DLand wasn't as big as SM64DS, a seven year older game, and MK7 hadn't as many features as MKDS, so I was a little disappointed in both at first, even though I've been playing them more and more. Now I like them both for what they are.

Pokémon was the primary reason I bought a 3DS for, knowing that a 3DS generation was obviously coming, but I think LM2 is my favorite 3DS game actually, together with A Link Between Worlds. Finished that one four times already, and that must mean something. But LM2 has such a fun multiplayer that I play it just as much. Pokémon X was great but I think it had just a little post game content. The detective part was great though, didn't hear of it until a few weeks ago, so that was a pleasant surprise.

But yeah, the 3DS is now a great console, with many fun features and most importantly, games you can't play anywhere else.

If you enjoy even only one of the following style of games, you should have one: RPG, Action Adventure, Platformer.

I bought it because it has has so many great games such as Pokemon X, SMT: Devil Survivor, Etrian Odyssey, upcoming Persona Q, Fire Emblem Awakening......

Also, I loved my DS lite, so why not to get its successor?

Pilotwings was a good enough reason for me to get one on launch. Always loved that series.

Got it for the gold special edition for link between worlds, and while I found that game disappointing I have gotten sucked into the phoenix wright games.