(I consider myself a console gamer and a PC gamer, so personally the debate between consoles and computers is pointless. However, this means I end up liking Nintendo more - because how many PS3 games and Xbox 360 games do you see on the PC? Lots... So I go to Nintendo for its first-party exclusives. Sure, Sony and Microsoft have their own exclusives too, but not as many, or not as interesting, and the bulk of the rest of the games on their consoles are on the PC. And yet even then I don't boot up my PC much for games. Another generic, realistic shooter? Another generic, realistic sports game? I'll pass, thanks.
I also consider myself a handheld gamer.) I've been itching for NEW 3DS games (Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition and The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D aren't exactly new), and while the twenty free games are most certainly NOT new, at least it's something free that's good, to keep me busy until the actually-new games come out.
Though I finish the "main" Mario games with 100%, I've always had trouble with the Yoshi games, so I was thinking recently that I wanted to give Yoshi's Island another shot; seems like a good reason to, now that I'll be getting it for free. It'd be nice to own Metroid Fusion, and I'm hoping that like the VC Game Boy releases, the VC NES The Legend Of Zelda will have savestate functions...that game is hard, so I'll need them. I hate to call myself a Zelda fan and have trouble finishing it...but at least I'll be able to, even if it's borderline (or practically) cheating.
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Similarly, I remember really liking Mario Vs. DK, but those extra stages are an exercise in frustration without savestates, which I hope VC GBA games will have too. >_>
The NES games are classic, but other than The Legend Of Zelda, I'm not keenly interested in seriously playing them again for the umpteenth time, though they all are nice distractions to have on the go, and the GBA games are a nice selection and would be a good time to revisit. But to think, we don't even know what the rest of the free NES/GBA games are, maybe there will be some more good ones.
They should advertise the crap out of this in the next couple weeks; some people might find these twenty games to be worth the $80 difference, and Nintendo might prefer to get that $80 (or whatever they get from each sale) and give away old games than to sell the 3DS for that much less.
Yes, Nintendo more-than-occasionally depends on nostalgia (i.e. rereleases), and maybe they are a little desperate, but we still could have gotten much worse or much less for free...including not getting anything at all. It's
twenty games, for free, how often do you get that (legally, officially, conveniently, where at least half of the games are good)? I'll take 'em!