Looking at the over-all line-up for 3DS in Europe, it's a far better, more consistent, more varied (despite more Mario branded titles being announced) than we've had yet in Europe.
March: Monster Hunter, Luigi's Mansion 2, Brain Training, Castlevania.
April: Fire Emblem: Awakening.
May: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
June: Animal Crossing: New Leaf
"Summer"(July, August, September?): Project X Zone, Etrian Odyssey IV, DKCR: 3D, Mario Golf, Mario & Luigi.
October: Pokemon X & Y
eShop: Code of Princess, the football game and puzzle game whose names escape me, Mario and Donkey Kong.
There are 7 definite buys, and 5 maybe-buys on that list for me. Considering that's 8 months of content, with more eShop stuff to come, possibly more third party titles and localisations, plus E3 for announcements, and November/December left clear for more content, I don't see why any reasonable person is disappointed. 3DS finally has a consistent, quality release schedule in the West. This will drive higher sales of hardware and software, which should result in more support and more localisations for the system. Nintendo haven't even touched franchises like Kirby, Metroid, Zelda (a new title), Advance Wars, Golden Sun yet. They haven't confirmed what Monolith Soft are doing for 3DS. Games like Bravely Default and Fantasy Life may yet get localised; with so much first party content, Nintendo might be holding off on those for 2014, to give them breathing space to push out more software. And Smash Brothers is still waiting in the future.
How was this a bad day for 3DS owners? Wii U needs more work, sure, but Nintendo gave Wii U the limelight in their last Direct. It's foolish to assume they're suddenly going to make more noise about the system just yet. Wii U needs work, sure, but that takes time. I swear Nintendo can't win with their fans, and this comes from someone who was pretty disappointed with 3DS last year and hasn't bought a Wii U yet.
