The WiiU has now outsold the Vita in the USA.

[Metrium]

The way I see it, and you can feel free to disagree, is that they are both consoles. If only home consoles were consoles, then why bother saying the word ''home'' in front of ''console'', why not just call them ''consoles'' since they are the only ones who earned the name. We say ''home consoles'' because their is also ''handheld consoles'' but they are both consoles. The same way their are ''HD consoles'' and ''SD consoles''.

But the word ''console'' is irrelevant, the important thing is that they are both gaming consoles. The word ''gaming'' is far more important than the word ''console''. They both aim at gamers who want to play games. So they compete for gamer's attention, money and time. They are competing for the consumer's entertainment. They also compete for display from retailers. Yes some prefer home consoles, others prefer handhelds, but alot only love games no matter what system they are on, and alot of these ppl don't have the money or time to buy all systems. I always prefered home gaming to handhelds, but I have a 3DS and I dont have a 360. Because Nintendo convinced me into buying a 3DS and M$ did'nt, I chose between the two and I thought the 3DS was way more attractive, they were both competing for my money.

No matter the format, they both offer a similar service that is games, they are both aimed at a similar audience that are gamers. One could argue that handhelds have the audience of casuals way more than home consoles and that because of this handhelds always did alot better making the comparaison unfair. That is a valid argument but in that case we are talking about a home console(WiiU) beating a handheld(Vita) so using that argument only makes the Vita look worst.

Also their is the fact that Sony always advertised the vita as ''home gaming on the go'', but I won't go there...