29th August 2014, 8:26 PM
Not the same, but VERY close. There will be "exclusives", but most new 3DS games will work on the original 3DS. It's sure a different beast from something like GBC to GBA, wherein no GBA game could ever hope to work on the GBC.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)