I want the Vita to die and burn in a firey inferno. Maybe then Sony will learn from their mistakes.
No, really.
There are a couple other problems, like the Vita not being a particularly "pocketable" portable--both the 3DS and the PSP can just slide into a pocket--but basically the issue is the memory card.
The cause and effect is *not* complicated. Use market memory, people will buy the largest memory cards they can find, and then will have lose purse-strings when it comes to your digital marketplace. Charge 4X the market price? People will buy the smallest memory card they can fit themselves into and buy nothing online because they can't fit it on their memory cards.
This is the story of why the PSP Go folded in a nutshell: it was a tiny percentage of the PSP market and PSP owners didn't have the memory to shop online, even when given the choice. Even with a PSP model dedicated to digital distribution, other PSP models simply couldn't follow suit. Online sales sputtered and Sony never had any reason to offer titles other than the major blockbusters online. Without titles online there was no reason to buy a PSP Go. It became a negative snowball.
Contrast this with the 3DS. Standard SD card slot, 2 or 4 GB included. Nintendo is making a killing with their online market.
