Vita autopsy: What Went Wrong?

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bouzane said:
The Vita's hardware was the source of all of its problems. Sony should have used significantly less powerful hardware in order to cut costs and provide an affordable system. Additionally, they should NEVER have used those proprietary memory cards.

If they had launched a pared down Vita a full year before the 3DS (it's not like they had to worry about cannibalizing the PSP's rapidly declining sales) at a lower price without those insanely overpriced memory cards it would have been far more successful than it was.

Why would an adult buy such a device though? After smartphones came out it doesn't matter if the price was $100, it's $100 more than anyone wants to spend. No adult/teenager wants to carry around a bulky second device when they already have a smartphone. 

With regards to the kids market -- would they have Mario Kart, Mario, Pokemon, etc.? No? Then they were always losing to Nintendo no matter what. 

The whole "lets aim for older teens and adults" tactic that Sony uses for consoles doesn't work for handhelds and they don't have the IP to make any headway with the kids crowd.