If you ask any mod, they can tell you I have not had a single ban here.

Well, everybody has their own games which got their interest and grew up with. Personally, I don't have intereset in any one of the games you said(no offence) because i grew up with Sony consoles just like you grew up with Nintendo which got your intereset. So, everyone may not love all the games you mentioned from 3DS and they decided to not to buy one(this applies to Vita and other consoles as well). Also some people want to play their franchies of Home console on the go when they are away and continue the same game in Home when they are back which is happening only in Playstation. So, these kind of gaming is not possible in 3DS and Wii U(mostly because they have their respective versions instead of same game on both consoles where Vita, PS3 and PS4 in future have few same games and remote play/gaika enables many games. You should not mention/ask others to love the franchises you love and buy a 3DS for your games which i think is not fair.

PS: Sorry if i was rude

I just don't have the time nor really the money to get a 3DS right now. I work at my computer most hours of the day since I'm in full development. Sure it gives me lots of minute long breaks to read forums and post, but nothing more than that. In fact I played my first game today in almost a month. Got an hour into ICO before I decided it was time to get back to work.

This holiday I'm getting both PS4 and XBONE so even with holiday hours it wouldn't really make sense for me to buy a 3DS. Hopefully I'll be getting a lot more free time early next year and I'll get one then. It has tons of great games that I really really need to play.

Yep, for me too same thing and I can't get enough time to play Games everyday  due to work so this makes me to give priority on which consoles i should be playing instead of having every console. But, Sony made it simple with their consoles using their Gaikai service which enables allmost all the Playstation games amonth PS4, Vita and PS3 in future. So, owning any one of the device is enough to play almost all the playstaion games.

In the end, I think that the legitimate question posted by spurgeonryan has been answered.

Some people didn't like the answers, but I see a common theme to them: games. Not the quantity of them, but the quality.

So, it's not really the price, the graphics or the region locking (although the last one is very important to me).

To give one final, very frank response to the orginal question, what would make me purchase a 3ds is the removal of region locking and the appearance of an ORIGINAL, BEAUTIFUL and INTELLIGENT Metal Gear game directed and produced by Kojima-san. I don't expect anything in the league of Metal Gear Soild 5, but more a follow-up to MGS Peace Walker, with short and difficult missions coupled with strategic intermissions.

Sorry, guys, but, again, not interested in Mario/Pokemon/Batman/Cooking Mama/Monster Hunter/Sponge Bob/Lego/Barbie kind of games. Neither on 3ds nor on any platform.

but Super Paper Mario was awesome...

most are multiplatform.

Yes! I intend to buy one next year, Hoping there will be a new XL model next year :P

I'm a wealthy Vita owner. I've only come across one person on this site with more retail Vita games than me (16). I own a 3DS and depending on the weather, either one will get more play time. Good games are good games and both consoles have them.

I've got about 30 retail vita games to 7 retail 3DS games with another 4-5 retail Vita games I plan to purchase by the end of the year.

Pokemon is the only 3DS game for the rest of the year that I intend buying.

Mohammad Badir, although most Vita games are multi platform, Vita is the only portable version of them. This is the part where Vita is my handheld of choice. I spend a lot of time without access to a TV screen. Vita is the perfect handheld platform making a perfect home console substitute for the times when I can't get to a TV.

The fact that a game is on PS3/360/PC is irrelevant if I'm on the train/plane/bus/at work.