They're keeping it alive, of all things.

Price cut, value packs. PSP is cheaper than the DS in japan, right now.

Uh... your comment makes it seem like I said I think Sony should kill the PSP which is completely false because I said nothing of the sort

Theres a problem with that logic. Games dont come out of thin air. Publishers want money. With no sales = no money = no more games for the Vita.

Only Sony can drag it along in this state. And if studio liverpool is any indication, you do it at the cost of your own studio. Sony is no different than 3rd parties in that regard. Wich is why the Vita is undoubtebly doomed. Its too late to do anything now. It would require a miracle that not even a price cut may be able to grant at this point.

But guys, if you think this year was bad for sales, brace yourselves.

Just ask... what will sell the Vita in the first 6 months of next year? Especially in the west.
It's going to be brutal, and it's all Sony's fault for not having a japanese line-up in 2012

well the "console on the go" part is why I (and several people I know) won't buy a vita. Someone I know felt psp was too much like ps2 and didn't see a need for it, thus doesn't see a need for vita. But the only way vita can fail is if like 90% of the people who bought psp had the same mind set as me and him. And I can't see the number of people being that high.

In the west it depends just how much psp sales were last year compared to when it came out. That would give people a better idea about how well vita will perform in it's life. The selling point for a console quality handheld doesn't have as much power as it did when psp came out. But there should be a healthy number of people in the west who liked the idea. Even if sony are so stubborn they would let it sit there on store shelves just to squeeze every little sale however niche the market may be. I haven't heard anything about retailers dropping it so even if sony are doing nothing its not a dire situation just yet.

Ah, I was starting to get worried. We haven't had a "Vita issues" story in a while, panic over.

Its tracking below the Dreamcast. Thats very distinguishing, isn't it?

Nest week, it will be about how LBP Vita is a FLOp, and we NEED to talk about it.

With so much fodder, why do you demand such restraint?

Someone's done one already

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=148182&page=1#6