I think the negative feed back loop the vita has been getting in blogs, forums, developers (pretty much Japanese/western abandonment outside konami, namco, ubisoft and EA) and other media sources pretty much doomed the vita, which in itself is pretty sad. As a Vita owner I am looking forward to many games coming (especially phantasy star online 2) but know that the system has a scarlet letter and outside Sony bringing content not to really expect anything else. I don't even bother with the bashers anymore, its not really worth it.
A couple things the vita can do to improve is for future iterations:
Do away with prior handhelds
Streamline their OS
A redesign, try to find a way to make the device secure without the use of proprietary items
A price cut, we now know that future handhelds cannot be priced more than 200 dollars
Ask 3rd parties what want in their handhelds outside Nintendo.
Advertising, try to cut above the naysayers and doomers.
The system was going to have a hard time because of the psp issues and I believe they overcompensated, its a awesome piece of hardware none-the-less.







