Just responding to the OT:
I believe that Vita not being much of an opponent has made things slightly easier for Nintendo. Of course, we live in an era in which Android and iOS truly have stolen a large part of the handheld gaming pie. But in terms of the 'hardcore' gaming crowd, this time Nintendo has no opponent and can play ball with an empty net. What this means of course is that they are under no pressure to release new IPs and great games, because they have no one who can steal them a relatively large part of the pie.
The 3DS can never and will never be the success DS was. This is because DS had almost all of the market for itself, including the casual market -- and a decent opposition from Sony. 3DS is unchallenged by Sony, and with Nintendo's renewed focus on hardcore gaming, I do not believe they are really worried for losing a market segment over to Apple and Google/Samsung. They are so far positioning 3DS to be a new N64/Gamecube which ultimately means many ports, little originality and could perhaps alienate Nintendo fans even more.
