What would happen if Sony Stopped making the Vita?

[theprof00]

Solid-Stark said:

theprof00 said:
vita supposedly was nearly profitable at launch.
Many confuse being profitable with the entirety of the console being profitable. Two conflicting stories from sony elucidate the situation.
The vita with attach rate, is making money.
The vita itself is predicted to be entirely profitable within 3 years.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111004-Sony-Sends-Mixed-Messages-on-PS-Vitas-Profitability

Loss on hardware on its own, profitable day one if we think about the entire business.

Tl;dr
Sony is not going to nix the vita, especially when euro and dollar forex are growing tremendously.
If we ignore this however, if sony were to drop the vita, it would end them. It would destroy consumer trust and pull them entirely out of the handheld market.
So yeah, again, not going to happen.

Thats interesting. I had thought the Vita itself was profitable from day 1, but that it would take 3 years for it to pay off it's R&D bill.

This is kind of what I mean. The 250$ vita is likely profitable with one game, especially now that the exchange rate has gone up over ten percent since release (both in euro and dollar) and Sony had only predicted a forex of 80 and 100, and it now stands at 85 and 113. The system is likely profitable without a game or memory card, right now, given this fortuitous turn.

But at launch, to correct the history, at launch it was not profitable. Though it is believed that the 3g 300$ version WAS profitable, the wifi version was considered to only be profitable with a memory card and game attached to the sale. Currently though, it should be reliably making healthy margin profit.

The 3 years would also take into account planned price-drops. Obviously, when detailing to investors, they would make sure that they didn't have to apologize down the line by saying "we didn't expect to drop the price". The prediction should include any upcoming price-drops, but possibly does NOT include PS+ revenue and subsequent memory card attach rate. I'd say it's going to take a little longer than 3 years looking at the current situation, unless Sony is able to turn it around and the Vita starts to kick off. Hopefully, we are also undertracking it by some fair margin.