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Of course. I have recommended a 3DS dozens of times already.

The games like 

  1. Resident Evil: Revelations (back when it was still exclusive)
  2. Kid Icarus: Uprising
  3. Super Mario 3D Land
  4. Mario Kart 7
  5. Dead or Alive: Dimensions (good 3D fighter)
  6. Tales of the Abyss for anyone who hasn't played it on the PS2
  7. Pokemon X/Y
  8. Shin Megami Tensei IV (looking great)
  9. Fire Emblem: Awakening
  10. Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
  11. LoZ: Ocarina of Time 3D 
  12. Etrian Odyssey IV (if you like the classic dungeon crawler genre)
  13. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
  14. The upcoming Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
  15. The upcoming LoZ: A Link Between Worlds
  16. The upcoming Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
  17. The upcoming Super Smash Bros
  18. The upcoming Rune Factory 4
  19. The upcoming Ace Attorney game
  20. The upcoming Yoshi's Island game
  21. The inevitable Kirby game
  22. It's backwards compatible with the DS
  23. It's getting a pretty decent Virtual Console collection. Recently they released Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS Virtual Console.
  24. Games in Japan that could get localized such as Monster Hunter 4 and Youkai Watch.

edit: There's also

  1. Luigi's Mansion 2
  2. Paper Mario
  3. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
  4. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
  5. Zero Escape
  6. Harvest Moon
  7. An unannounced title from Monolith Soft
  8. Possibly a Persona game (assuming it wasn't cancelled)
  9. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
  10. Star Fox 64 3D
  11. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
  12. SMT: Soul Hackers
There's clearly more as well that I haven't listed that are potential games to get for the 3DS (covering many genres here).