Vita to $199 3G/Wifi model. Eliminate wifi only model.

currently with the 3G model do u have to get the 3G contract or is it just an option?

It is an option and the 3G card only adds around $3 to the manufacturing cost.

EDIT: they should have never had a wifi only option, but it was a way for them to create a second model with a larger profit margin.

i was unaware of that. I agree with u, they should just have one model priced at $199, that should increase sales pretty dramatically.

if they did that I think it could achieve what PSP did and get 1/3 of the market from Nintendo.  That's about the best Vita can hope for.

Thats about the best i think it can do also, im guessing vita lifetime sales will be 35-45 million and 3DS 100-120 million

With harddrive makers shrinking in number, I think current gen prices will remain where there are. HDDs are just too expensive.

Do you know anything about the Vita at all? If Sony eliminates one model, it should be the 3G one. Nobody is interested in it, you can't play multiplayer games online without Wi-Fi anyway, so why bother? You think people really want to bother getting a card just to be able to check trophys online and browse the shop or internet on a Vita? $3 is a lot when you are to cut price and lose money on every console sold, especially for a feature nobody cares about. Sony has to cut the costs, and this is the best way. The only reason I can think of justifying this model was to entice mobile operators to offer a 3G Vita instead  or additionally to a smartphone. Can't really say it was worth the effort, so now they should just forget about this model.

Oh, that's really sweet. Yes people use mobile devices to browse the internet, youtube, skype, facebook, twitter, etc. etc.

By next year the cost to manufacture the Vita will be down and they won't be taking a loss like they would have by doing it this year. 3G is an optional feature and there are those who prefer to have the option and those who actually choose to use it. People spend thousands of dollars a year on phones that do this, it isn't outrageous that the Vita offers it too. The iPad has 3G option and those sell well. The 3G card is a small cost in the overall breakdown of the console.

You aparently don't know anything about the Vita. It is a gaming tablet handheld with apps. Some people perfer to have 3G for their mobile devices, it is very common.

I'd see PS360 getting dropped pretty significantly this year. With YOY declines in 2012 and that obviously continuing and increasing next year as rumors of their successors turn into fact. They'll like get new sku bundles and have prices starting ~$129 to $149.

Vita will likely go to one sku. I'd actually see the 3G model being tossed out and a wifi only with 4GB permanently part of the bundle at $179 to $199.

Wii will surely go to $79 for the mini and $99 for the wifi model. Both with some "Wii..." game.

DSi will probably stay as its selling fine.
3DS will likely stay as well though maybe $149 or $139... idk. Guess it will depend on game lineup and Vita.

WiiU... who knows. Right now its sales are fine. It will depend on Jan-Mar and the price points the rest of next-gen come in at.