Just for the fact that Nintendo is sucking balls, doesn't mean Sony will succeed. It's not a zero-sum game. Merely an observation.

So is Sunshine.

Except that it is Nintendo making the bad decision this time around.

Honestly the ball is more in Nintendo's court to determine whether they win or lose. Vita's there doing largely what the PSP itself was doing early on, which is a solid, albeit conservative strategy. The problem is Nintendo's trying to out-PSP the PSP/Vita with the 3DS, or at least that's how it seems at the moment.

If or when Nintendo gets serious about delivering NES/SNES/DS-type games, then you're going to see some action, but the point is that it's up to Nintendo to decide to do that, otherwise they're just going to have a red-ocean fight on their hands

Also just becasue Nintendo is doing bad doesn't mean Vita will be sucessfull (not even if it sells more in the end). It just happens to be that the PSP vita, I believe, has less bad decisions than the 3DS has.

Only mario games with amazing sales (> 10 million) are mainline mario games.

OT:

Vita has what 3DS has (and more actually) except for 3D.....and the 3D "Craze" is dying out, at the box office too.

Despite all this its at a similar price.

So, the 3DS has sequels to existing franchises and therefore has no fresh content. But Vita is awesome because it has sequels to existing franchises.

lolwut?

ok let me put it this way to you

it's not about 'balance' or any of that crap for ninty...they handled the 3ds launch HORRIBLY!

and add thigns like bad battery life, region lock, friend code (seriously, it's 2011 already for crying out loud) and non stop stream of ports...not sure why you would use the term 'balance' here but but looks like piss poor stuff from ninty on hw and sw front so far.

it's NOT about playing all your cards, it's about playing your card rights, neither you or me know what sony has in store additionally, but so far they have done so so much better than ninty in the handling of their new handheld. Solid HW, GREAT value for the price unlike the overpriced 3ds hw, good variety of games with LOTS of new IP's even before GC and TGS!

and I honestly don't care about this 3ds vs psv stuff sales wise...cuz as a consumer that is just an online hobby and won't affect me otherwise. I seriously doubt psv will outsell 3ds LT either. But heck give Sony cred where cred is due and call out ninty when they mess up. So far Sony have given everything fans wanted and asked for. So no it's not about balance, it's not about playing 'all; you cards (really? I mean really? time machine you have, i need it) it's about playing your cards right :) simple as that

wow I mean really people!? does it like hurt you physically or something to give some cred to sony? and for the record again I state I don't think psv will sell more than 3ds LT BUT if you think victory depends solely on the market leader effing up and not competition making the right, smart moves then you are being naive. in fact you are down right insulting ninty. They didn't win this gen of home consoles JUST because Sony F*&$#d up with ps3 launch.

and what do you mean by 'conservative' strategy? they have added power, priced extremely competatively, added all the features asked by fans, added EXTRA features that devs can use to create NEW gameplay mechancis. it's anything but conservative, it's aggressive and sony wants to do well..and it shows.

I mean this is laughable the way some of you are downplaying this. >_> bu bu bu when thye get selious sony will be so sad... i mean really? sheesh

Alot of people that have a DS will get a 3DS plus the handled market is more casual than core