I bought my New 3DS, and after the month where Nintendo for some reason decides you can't transfer your own data and the games you paid for, I swapped back to my 3DS with Circle Pad Pro. The New 3DS is an 'upgrade' in the absolute barest sense of the word. Half an our of extra battery life, a slightly bigger screen and it loads Smash 4 about 10 seconds quicker. Doesn't outweigh the cons by a mile.