I think that if people would just get one they would love it.This outsider condemnation is unhealthy for the industry.

I hope so, I just hate when consoles/handhelds/whatever option you play on fails, I support the likes of portables, PCs , Consoles and also stuff like OnLive (which is SCAWY!!! to a lot of people for some reason), and at the same time support Mobile gaming and Browser gaming, because after all , they're all just multiple platforms developers can work on , and all have unique traits that can make unique gameplay mechanics.

tl; dr

I Hope so, I support gaming, because I like this hobby

I posted this on Vita's Official Thread, but I'll repost here, because I believe this could be a #gamechanger® for Vita. It could well put the thing back on track.

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Well, Vita fans, this is it! Capcom Captivate is happening right at this moment! Since it's a press only event there'll be an embargo, but maybe megatonic announcements (you know what I mean) are taking place right now! Place your bets.

(on march 30)
"It's next week in Rome, however as a warning, the embargo in information won't be up until the following week to give attendees appropriate opportunity to craft their pieces instead of just "free for all rush jobs"."

-C

Christian Svensson
Corporate Officer/Senior Vice-President"

http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_capcom/go/thread/view/7371/29032475/Captivate_this_year,_when

So this next weeks will be very very exciting! Can't wait!

On the other hand, if people just don't get it, it's because they don't care about it.

Is that a Demon's Souls reference? Nice.

Vita is already past the failing point. It had a good launch. People who say otherwise don't know what a failing console looks like.

Awfully weird for them to specifically address Vita fans. I hope it's not just hype for the Vita version of SFxT. Well, I hope it's not just a Portable 3rd localization either. Going to need something big to revive the Vita in Japan. I think it's doing well enough in the west for its price tag though.

vita is selling worse than the wii, if that's not the mark for failure i don't know what is. i'm happy with vita at the moment but i fully expect games to start getting canceled at this point and to run out of stuff to play by the end of the year and to eventually highly regret early adaption.

it's only saving grace is that was my expectations before buying a vita. i can't blame sony for my own incompetence.

Oh, no read again. That Vita fan part was mine :)

The actual quote begins with the " "

Woops how embarassing, my bad. Well I guess in that instance I wouldn't expect anything huge on the Vita front, but a Portable 3rd localization for the Vita is a possibility.

Completely false. Vita could very well be a failed console, only time will tell. If vita ends up being so unprofitable that sony never makes another handheld, then clearly it has failed, even if it somehow manages to sell 100million lifetime. And similarly, even if it only manages to sell 20mil lifetime but is quite profitable and encourages sony to make another handheld, than its a success.

Personally,  like a few other people, I think the biggest obstacle the psvita has is the fact that everyone has a multimedia player nowadays. While there are plenty of people who bought the psp for games, I would be willing to bet close 50% of the customers bought it as their first multimedia player, that has the added bonus of playing games. Considering the psp's abysmal software tie ratio gaming can't be the main use of every person's psp. Plenty of other consoles and handhelds have been hacked but the psp's tie ratio is in a league of its own.

I don't think the vita will get anywhere near psp's lifetodate numbers. Whether that constitutes a failed handheld depends on whether the vita can be profitable with this smaller but much more loyal userbase, and hopefully I end up being proven wrong, because If the vita gets compelling software I would be very interested in it, but it can only get that software if developers think their games will sell well on the system.