I recently got a PS Vita. My review.

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binary solo said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

So, unable to play my PS3, I decided to go ahead and buy a PSV, despite all the doom going around. I have U:GA and GR. Without further ado, my review of PSV:

See this bit I don't really get. PSV sales have pretty much stabilised and outside of Japan PSV is selling at about 50% of 3DS, and proportionally speaking PSP is still seeing strong sales. What does this tell us? It kinda tells us that Pachter wasn't far off in saying that dedicated handheld gaming devices are going to have a much harder time of it now compared to the hey day of DS and PSP. 3DS is selling all right but it's not setting the world on fire, thus the performance of PSV needs to be considered in this context. In terms of the weekly HH sales market PSV is doing reasonably, it's just that the weekly HH sales market is smaller than people might have expected.

Relative to 3DS PSV is holding its own, the only place it's really under performing relative to 3DS is Japan, and I think if Sony needs an immediate strategy for PSV it's how to lift performance in Japan. Europe and Nth America are holding ground pretty well against the cheaper competition.

The time to worry is if 3DS sees a massive increase in baseline sales but PSV doesn't. While Nth America + Europe continue on at about 50% of 3DS then Sony is in a sustainable position. They just need to look elsewhere for over-all company proitability, because PSV isn't going to get them out of the hole.

At least PSV is making them profits from the first day. Of course, if it stops getting SW support then that'll stop at some time, but I'm confident.

I say it'll sell over 50m units at the end with a higher SW attach rate than PSP. Enough to make a tidy profit and be considered a success.