Could the PS Vita be a double generation handheld?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

MikeRox said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
It could be a good idea, but Sony should relaunch it with better marketing, better price, lower price for the memory cards and a regular flow of first party games, not only as system sellers, but also to clearly tell both users and third party devs and publishers that the platform hasn't been abandoned. And possibly a model restyling, that could have some extra features, say, smartphone function and others, but it should avoid at all costs to split the user base introducing game incompatibilities with the old models, so if the HW will be more powerful, that power will have to be used only for optional non-gaming features or to allow running scalable games at higher settings on the new model while they should also perfectly run at original settings on the old ones.

I think the price that you can get them for in the UK is fine. £130 with 10 games and a memory card.

However, scrapping the memory card requirement entirely in a future model would go a long way, given how many people on here seem to find it such an issue, and it'd certainly make sense given how cheap the actual memory probably is for them, to just do a model with a decent chunk of storage built in.

A new slew of first party titles would be nice. Though I don't think third parties are really bothering with any handheld now barring the odd title. I think they more need to get out the message of the games the system already actually has, preferably with physical releases, even if  they're compilations of the highest rated titles on the system.

About the price, they should do better prices also outside of USA, UK and Japan. Here it's still 199 Euros list price with a 8GB mem card and 8 games, currently discounted in some online stores down to 169 Euros, little more than £130, but it's still a timed offfer, and still above the 150 euros psychological threshold, not to mention that Nintendo offers quite a lower entry price with the 2DS. Although it has good prices in the three best selling countries, Sony consoles and portables rely a lot also on the lower selling rest of the world.
I agree about the rest.
Once the price is right and the game library large enough, what will be left to fix is marketing.