It's making it difficult for me to not buy a 3DS. Fire Emblem is up in the very top of my favourite series, possibly second only to console Zeldas, but I'm not sure I'll buy a 3DS just yet. Somehow, I ended up buying very few games for my DS. I think Shadow Dragon, TWEWY, Pokemon Diamond, Phantom Hourglass and Mario Kart DS was pretty much it.
Out of those, I only finished Shadow Dragon and TWEWY. Neither Pokemon Diamond, Phantom Hourglass nor MKDS were my cup of tea, for some reason, despite being in 3 of my favourite franchises. Similarly, Shadow Dragon was one of the weaker Fire Emblem games, and definitely the weakest translated one.
In short, the DS was the gaming machine I've owned that I've liked the least, which has put me quite heftily off buying a 3DS.
If there wasn't a Fire Emblem game released for the 3DS, I wouldn't have much incentive to buy a 3DS at all. With Awakening, there's some, but not quite enough.
