Thanks for the replies, it does help clear a few things up.

I think I should elaborate on my question about the game series being ruined - it's not to do with the expansion of the story or anything like that, I'd love to play them, CoM more than any, but it's the way they've been released.
I really don't like handhelds so don't own either of them and they're far too expensive for me to justify buying them and playing only one game, and CoM wasn't even released here. I'd just have liked it much better if they had been released for console.