Call of duty on the vita? .. haha my 52" tv says hello!..

I'll wait for the game to release actually before I judge that.

- Missed a holiday launch in NA and Europe.........thus being behind in millions more when it finally releases, meaning itll be all the harder to catch up

- Has zero flagship system sellers even remotely on the level of Mario and its endless spinoffs

- Games in general are numerous, but few actually have names that make the handheld worth buying

- Consoles are one thing, but you NEED casual appeal to sell a dedicated handheld device. 3DS has it, Vita just screams "im only for core".......lots of casuals will be put off by that.

- price gap. value or not, its there and people will notice.

When your late to the party, your more expensive, you have no system sellers..........I mean cmon.

I like how people actually think this matters. Price and games. You got a good price and system sellers and your fine. 

If we went by your logic....Xbox would have beat PS2.....PS3 wouldnt still be last place, and Wii would have been discontinued years ago. 

I repeat....mass market price point and system sellers. 

I agree, and with that said, I think I should boycott this back and forth between 3DS fans and Vita Fans. 

They won't be buying PSV cod INSTEAD of home version. I can totally see some freeks buying it in addtion to PS3 version to be able to play it also outside of home.

That's the whole point of handheld console to bring you entertainment when you are outside of home not to replace it. You can clearly see it in popularity of handhelds in Japan where majority of people travel by train every day.

I'm not remotely interested in handheld consoles, since I'm in college and I don't commute anywhere.

However, from the very little I saw of the 3DS and the little information I know about Vita, I would definitely prefer Vita.

The simple addition of a second stick seals it for me. With that you can control a lot of genres with a lot more ease (especially with shooters). Graphics aren't important for me, but the graphics I saw when I played with the 3DS just seemed dated. It's really annoying seeing so many people getting excited over re-releases of old games when they've already played it years ago and there's not much improvement/change. I really would like to be able to enjoy a new generation of games and have hardware that'll be able to support it.

The 3D effect just seems gimicky, whereas all the other features of the Vita seem more concrete (touch is meh, but I guess that's what Sony wanted to make Vita competitive to the DS and smartphone market. Battery life does seems like a huge issue, but as I'll be more of the casual player, I really don't need anything more than 3-4 hours a day while I commute on a train or bus.

Ultimately, it's down to the games, and like I said, the simple addition of 2 sticks opens up a huge number of doors for future games for the Vita IMHO.

You have it backwards. The true question is "Can 3DS resist the Vita Storm?"
3DS is already out and the system sellers are coming out this holiday. Vita is coming out this holiday in Japan and the system sellers won't come until a few months later. The 3DS will no doubt be the #1 handheld this holiday. The question is can it keep that #1 position?

So me and the guy I quoted both got it wrong.  He said that the PSV isn't for the 1337 hardcore gamer.  I said it wasn't for the casual gamer.  You say it's for the hardcore gamer on the go.  I can see that.

I got SSF4 for the 3DS.  It's a very good recreation of the home console experience.  I wouldn't want to play it for competition (too many people use the touch screen to "cheat") but I use it to scratch my Street Fighter itch when I'm away from home.  I guess CoD on PSV can do the same for a certain segment of the COD audience.

*edit* One thing to keep in mind about Call of Duty is that the main draw is the online.  The PSV will support online and 3G but lets be real.  There is no way 3G is going to be able to support the CoD online experience.  People are going to have to have access to Wi FI to play Call of Duty in some way that resembles the home version.  Maybe a quick session at McDonalds or Starbucks or Books a Million or something?  But even then, you'll have to contend with people dropping out at inopportune times.  It's the nature of handheld gaming.  Or, people can just play at home where they have full access to online all of the time.  But if they're playing at home on their Wi Fi then why are they playing their portable?

PSVita has PSSuite to stole some Smartphone gamers and stole some casual game for Nintendo with Sound Shape,Escape Plan and Little Deviants etc ans got gamers like PSP.