h they are DEFINITELY making bank on it...especially thanks to those memory cards. Creamsugar gave some figures for mem card sales over at gaf and they were big. I'm certain sony is making some big bucks off of vitas now..and famousmortimer said in the NA around 60% of game sales on vita are digital

That's probably because 90% of Vita games are digital only these days :P

I'm not sure Sony are making any money worth writing home about off Vita to be honest.  It's selling in such small volumes that they'd have to be making like the full $200 profit off every sale pretty much; and accessories and memory cards are limited by the amount of people buying the machine.

(I'm tired and these NPD numbers have made me grumpy because Vita deserves better!)

haha come on now..as long as they earn more than they spend it's profitable for them. Not like SCEA is doing any marketing for the system or anything. At this point the system has been in the market for long enough + absurdly high memory card premiums + extra revenue due to digital sales = profit. I don't have a doubt about it at all. 

But I agree. they treat it like shit and the sales reflect it. Vita deserves better

The sales for vita are really bad

I'm torn my vita bros. I'm thinking of importing Final Fantasy X/X-2 vita because the US date seems so far away (March for ps3, no mention of vita date ). That or getting bravely default for the 3ds which demo I didn't like, art style that doesn't appeal to me, but people are raving about it(I wonder if it's because it's an exclusive).

Are there any vita bros who like final Fantasy X, own a 3ds and have played Bravely default ? if there is, what would be your choice ?

buy rainbow moon if you wanna play jrpgs.

you'd be busy with it until march.

lol, no thank you. Most of what I enjoy from JRPGs are the stories. Even though most of them are cliches and repeating the same stories (saving the world), I just like them. From what I understand Rainbow moon doesn't have much story and is basically a grind. i don't even do side quests in rpgs unless i want to level up or buy some new weapons ^^ and from what I saw from rainbow moon, i don't think i'd enjoy it

Basically, the Vita is fast enough for the game. But when data is reloaded in the background, everything stops for a second now and then. With some hardware optimization, they could probably fix it, but a performance patch would surprise me... TTG has currently many other irons in the fire, they won't care for a patch that brings no more money.

The graphics look great on the little 5-inch display, subjectively better than on an iPad display with the quadruple size. Comparing clippings of the screenshots side-by-side (unfortunately Vita-Screenshots are highly JPG-compressed), the iOS version is a little bit better. I also included another comparison with the PC version:

TWD house - iPad + PS Vita: http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/retinavitawaltuzf12brnv.png
TWD house - PC (1920x1200, maximal settings) + PS Vita: http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/pcvitawalking81pkvhz27u.png

TWD kitchen - iPad + PS Vita: http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/retinavitawalvkj8rqas10.png
TWD kitchen - PC (1920x1200, maximal settings) + PS Vita: http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/pcvitawalkingq9r312hsux.png

If it's not PO2 or any "Tales of..." game, I simply don't care. 

Half of Sony's First Pary studios are North American, so that means that Vita can expect AT LEAST half of Sony's full power, but we all know is less than that. 

The problem in the United States is an endless circle. People don't buy Vitas because there aren't many games that appeal to that market, developers (Sony included) don't make games because there isn't many Vitas sold, People don't buy Vitas... 

It's supposed to be Sony's responsability to bring as many exclusive games as they can to make their console more competitive, but instead they are only bringing games most people has already played. It's not big surprise the 3DS is destroying it.

Santa Monica is fu$%ng big, yet they are focused in the development of two PS4 games (a new IP and God of War 4 -IGN thinks their second game is GoW4-) and the co-development of The Order: 1886. On the other hand, Naughty Dog's games are always blockbusters, so it's unlikely that Sony would ever make them develop a Vita game because profits are not going to be as huge as the profits they can make with a PS4 game. 

Sucker Punch seems to be the only North American studio working on a Vita game, but that's it. Even Bend Studio is now in charge of a PS4 game. 

The PS3 and Vita version are both going on the same date...