I'm just confused about what you DO like to play in that case :) seemes to be a quite limited selection.
You pretty much dissed a ton of genres in that first post. But yeah, an FPS machine it is not (unless you count that metroid game that worked kinda well).

The problem with the vita fps'es was that they got like no production value so they had to make the best of that limited budget.. but that's a whole other story.
my initial reaction to your list was "wth? you like nothing?" :P just had to comment..
no disrespect ofc. (don't think you took it that way either so) we all like what we like, nothing wrong or right with that :)

+1 that you like ace attourney though, that is some good stuff right there :)

Well... fanboys will always depreciate the 3DS anyway, no matter how great its game library is and its affordable price. Not every videogame consumer is a true gamer.

Can I suggest some additions to the list ? These are some great games that are always overshadowed :

Cave Story 3D
Art Academy Lessons For Everyone
Batman Arkhan Origins Blackgate
Rhythm Thief and the Emperor´s Treasure
Style Savvy Trendsetters (believe me: this game is much, much better than it looks)
Naruto Powerful Shippuden
Pilotwings Resort
Heroes of Ruin
Lego City Undercover The Chase Begins


Upcoming:
Layton and the Azram Legacies
Mario Golf World Tour

I'm the only one that just plain didn't like Pilotwings resort? :S was my launch game and damn i got dissapointed with it..
that DS back catalouge was the thing that kept it alive at that time..

Reading some of the replys here, it´s interesting to notice how a fanboy mind works:

- if it´s in my console of choice, it´s a great game
- if it´s not in my console of choice, even if it sells 8 millions and get 85 % + aggregate scores and still keep making the top 20 weekly best seller list after years, it´s crap

such hypocrisy....
we all have different tastes, but the fact that we don´t like a particular game doesn´t mean that the game is bad. For example, I don´t like FPS and soccer games, but I played Fifa and CoD and I do agree that those are excellent productions. They´re just are not the kind of game I appreciatte

Is it so difficult to do that ? Is it so difficult to understand that ?

That´s ok, because Pilotwings Resort was designed with the casual player in mind. It´s a relaxing game, not meant to provide a big challenge or a compelling story, so it wouldn´t appeal to some consumers. For what it proposes, I found it quite enjoyable.

But I would recommend it only if found on a sale. I paid $ 10 for my copy.

I went in and expected a.. pilotwings64 ish game.. but yeah, know what you mean.. it's not BAD.. for me it was a bit lackluster.. and for 40$.. not worth it :P

A lot of those games don't really interest me but, wow, the 3DS has some excellent RPGs. I'd like to get one eventually just for that. Maybe Bravely Default and the Level 5 games, as well. I keep hearing good things about some of the eShop titles. Maybe I'll pick one up if there is a great Black Friday deal, the way I did with the Vita.

It's not that my preference in genre’s is limited, rather I game heavily on my home console and game lithely on my handheld, which yeah it gives the illusion of a limited selection of games and genre's, still I got around 5 platinum’s on my vita vs 48 platinum’s on my PS3, but I usually play more casually on my PSvita.

I played Metroid on the DS phat, clocked it too, but FPS like games don't work well with a stylus mainly because it requires a hand to use the stylus meaning you lose quick access to all the face/shoulder buttons on the right/left hand side of the machine, for me it's either mouse & keyboard or dual sticks. I also tried to play Metroid on the DS with that weird plastic thumb stylus that was on the wrist trap, it was supposed to give a second analogue stick feel...yeah it didn't work well so I stuck with the stylus. The only games I found which worked very well with stylus controls were on rail shooters like 'Touch the Dead'.

I agree with the Vita FPS's getting low production values but I think it's more to do with the crunch to launch than anything else. I did Plat resistance burning skies, it actually wasn't a bad games, control wise it worked, visually though it was all over the place, and it's online was actually fun, same goes with COD declassified, again CODs controls work, and the game as a whole is designed to be played in small chucks which is  good for a portable, but again the visuals weren't great....it's gonna be a bitch to plat though XD It felt like Resistance burning skies and Cod: declassified were proof of concept with Killzone Mercenary being that stellar piece that has great production values.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not closed off one bit from getting a 3DS, I'm just waiting for that one uber game that I cannot live without, it used to be Pokémon but sadly not anymore.

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If you’ve got time I'll give ya a lil history of my handhelds,  I started with a Gameboy colour, had a lime green & clocked over 1000 hours in Pokémon gold, then moved to Gameboy Advance, loved Golden sun, then got a DS phat and clocked Metroid prime hunters, then when the lite released I got a DS lite (glossy black) and Advanced wars dual strike, also played a tone of chibi robo, then a big game come to the PSP FF:Crisis core and I jumped in and got one, found out it could do a hell of a lot more then my DS and slowly my PSP become my predominant handheld.

After so many years being with Nintendo, the PSP became by default device, back then I used my PSP as my main MP3 player and use to watch a lot of video when I went to work. This changed when I got my first smart phone, the Samsung Galaxy S, that then become my default media device for video and music, which then led to my Galaxy 3. Up to this point I was essentially getting all versions of Pokémon, my last being heart gold. After this I was burnt with Pokémon, so when the 3DS launched I of course went to the tour events and frankly come out disappointed, yeah the 3D sorta worked, but I was disappointed by the screen and graphics, it felt very PSP like and I wanted something better something as good as my galaxy screen with its vibrant OLED screen. Now since there wasn't any game I wanted at launch or the first couple months I didn't pick one up. Then the PSvita events happened...

Sony's PR worked miracles, 5inch OLD, HD rez (960 × 544 QHD), quadcore GPU and GPU, 512MB main ram with 128MB Vram, dual mini sticks, console like games possible on the go, and then I saw Uncharted golden abyss and Wipeout and was blown away, the child in me was ecstatic as fuck. I looked at my phone with its OLED screen and just thought how good games would look on an even higher rez OLED screen than my phone (GS1). Suffice to say that when I got my hands on the PSvita I was not disappointed. The smoothness and snappiness of the OS, those good looking games at launch, and the fact that PS+ subscription carried over along with my PS3 account, how could I say anything other than, take my money, give meh my PSvita byatch....suffice to say I bought the 3G version with an official 32GB day one. Sony's marketing worked and I ended up shelling out a total of $700AU, console, case, memory card, two games...don't regret it all. This is something that for me Nintendo failed to do for the 3DS but did with the previous handhelds.

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Anyways, just thought I'd share a lil bit of my handheld  history, it should give a little bit of perspective as to why despite being a fanboy of Sony's ecosystem it's not where I started from, rather how I use to be a Nintendo handheld supporter and how they lost me to Sony.

Doesn't sounnd like a Nintendo console is for you, with you having no interest almost every first party game.  Your also the first person I've met that prefers Playstation All Stars to SSB XD.

Thanks, I added most of those.