Will the Vita have a lifespan of twelve years or more?

[Soundwave]

JRPGfan said:

Soundwave said:

I will eat my hat if you can find a new Vita stocked by North American retailers in 2-3 years time. I think Sony is phasing it out this year and will have a Dreamcast-like price cut for it to clear out retail inventory and that will be that in North America for the Vita anyway.

It isn't really "that powerful" either, the average modern smartphone runs circles around a Vita. The chip inside an iPhone 6 destroys the Vita. 

Iphone 6:

cpu: 1.4 GHz dual-core ARMv8-A

gpu: PowerVR Series 6 GX6450 (quad-core)

 

PS Vita:

cpu: 2 GHz Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore

gpu: Quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4+

 

Your right though basically the Iphone 6 is close to the PS vita in terms of performance.....

You just need to pay alot more for it, have worse batterylife (for gameing) and deal with not haveing the physical buttons the vita has.

The Vita is just a third gen iPad chipset basically. The new wave of Apple devices have considerably more powerful versions of the same family of chips (PowerVR GPU + ARM CPU). 

Vita is very dated tech.