If you want to buy it, do so, you can have both worlds, some things cfw doesn't do and doesn't do that well and gateway does it and vice versa, using 3ds files on the go is very nice and both support cia installation, there's the free alternative too if you don't want to pay for it, I've it and for me it's worth it, but isn't really needed if you don't need the features that gateway provides, like 3ds files support and a very convenient cheat engine, none are superior to the other, if someone says that it's just a hater