What is the point of shotgun argumentation?
Xenoblade Chronicles was ported to demonstrate how powerful the New 3DS was going to be. It's by far the biggest game on the Wii while simultaneously having limited copies shipped overseas. It's also one of three games that people virtually kickstarted via Operation Rainfall, just so that it could make it abroad alongside Pandora's Tower and The Last Story. Xenoblade 3D didn't get "special treatment" just because it was popular, but because there was simply no other game like it on the Nintendo market. Not even Zelda could hold a candle to its expansive landscapes and lush scenery, at least until Breath of the Wild comes out (but even BotW has XCX to contend with).
You clearly have way too much faith and pride in the Xenoblade series! Yet, you are on a fansite that's supposed to be mostly for strongly devoted and dedicated Zelda fanatics! Basically, Hardcore Zelda fanatics! You are a Hardcore Xenoblade Chronicles Fanatic and a Core Zelda fan! A fanatic is when so devoted to something that you're basically more than mere simple fan, you're a fanatic. So that said, you're basically arguing with your own passion for a series you love. Which doesn't mean that Nintendo can't just make more exclusives for the New 3DS!
I understand and respect your passion for one of your most top personal favorite franchises. I get it. But, please understand that I feel the same passion for my all time personal favorite franchise, The Legend of Zelda! Just because you think your favorite game is the only one on the Nintendo Market worthy of being an exclusive on the New 3DS, doesn't mean everyone else would think the same. The people who just happen to have different opinions. And there is very good reason for that. That being cause if we all shared all the same beliefs, opinions, ideas, and everything, the world would be pretty boring, lame, and just weird. However, at the same time, we all can't be all different from each other either, otherwise, the world would be a scary and terrifying place. So that's why we all have a balance of both differences and similarities. Differences to make us our own original unique selves from each other. And similarities to allow us to be able to relate to each other really well and get along fairly and beautifully.
With that said, I respect your opinion. But just know that mine is different, since my passion is for a different franchise (The Legend of Zelda), which I believe that Zelda is just as worthy of putting to good use, the full power and potential of the N3DS just as much as Xenoblade was. And that I believe that giving N3DS exclusivity to only not only one franchise but simply just one game from said franchise is what I consider unfair to the other franchises. Nintendo may have successfully shown enough of the N3DS's full power, but they haven't shown the full potential of the power yet! Which is why the N3DS needs a
brand new game, not a port.
The Gameboy Color was very successful! Why? Because, unlike the N3DS, Nintendo actually cared for that upgrade to the regular gameboy enough, that they actually fully demonstrated and presented the full power and potential of the system! And the system sold well because of that! Hardly anyone buys a New 3DS nowdays! Why? Because nobody seems to care enough for the New 3DS like they did with the Gameboy Color! Why? Because the Gameboy not only had a port or so but it actually had it's
own original games! What the New 3DS have? Oh, right, ONE GAME! But oh no, not just any game, no! A PORT of a WII GAME! Literally a PORT of game from ANOTHER console, which people ALREADY HAVE and OWN (mainly Xenoblade fans), is the ONLY game that actually has any exclusivity for the N3DS! That's why NO ONE but 3DS/N3DS newbies, collectors, and reviewers are buying any New 3DSs or New 3DS XLs these days. It's because of the fact that the N3DS only has one port as it's only exclusive is why it's failing when it shouldn't have to. That's why HMK doesn't have or use a New 3DS or New 3DS XL to play his 3DS games! Cause he feels like he doesn't really need a N3DS and there's literally no point! He has all he wants and needs to play his favorite games on all the systems he already had!
You see my point here? This is why the N3DS needs exclusives that actually of it's own! Exclusives that you can't play on anything thing else but the New 3DS! It's own Zelda games, Mario games, Pokemon games, etc! And heck maybe, even it's own Xenoblade game that's actually not a port. I'm saying this because while much like the Game Color was an upgrade to the Gameboy, the N3DS is an upgrade to the 3DS, also like the Gameboy Color, the N3DS has the potential to stand on it's own as it's own thing. And I just don't want Nintendo to take that potential and throw it out the window! I hate to tell you this but Xenoblade isn't only franchise in the world that people care about. And it isn't the only thing worth of N3DS exclusivity either!
All that said, Nintendo can not just throw away such potential! Otherwise, doing so is only going to bite them hard like when they decided it was wise to release the Wii U too early and eventually kill off the system due to it failing so hard because of that mistake, thus throwing the rest of what's left of the Wii U's potential that the Wii U had left to offer to complete waste. I just don't want the same kind of fate to befall the N3DS, only much worse!