How are Vita's hardware sales doing this week compared to launch week so far? Is it a huge dropoff, or is it still selling decent despite the lagging software sales?

Dude it's only been two days after launch week... we don't even have solid numbers for it's launch week. 

The Vita's launch line up was good and 3DS had a terrible launch line up and still sold better than the Vita. Vita was launched in the holidays.

Vita lost to the 3DS in it's launch week. Comparing the launch weeks for both systems, the Vita lost. Vita lost to a system that had terrible games and that wasn't launched in the holiday season. They launched at the same price. Vita lost.

I'm a PlayStation fan. Don't get me wrong Vita has a lot of time left and is in no way doomed. The games are coming. It's just Sony didn't have a strong Japanese focused launch line-up. That's all. I think they should have delayed the system and launched alongside a Tales game.

3DS didn't really have any competion though, and Vita sold out of the most popular memory cards within 2 days not to mention the issues which have to be patched. It's really just not a fair comparison right now no matter how you compare, like I said it's way too soon to tell. I don't think delaying the system would have done them any favors, like I said alot of people were counting on it for gifts and they did say they'd release it in 2011 and already delayed plenty. Would it have sold more in those 2 days if they waited probably, ultimately would it benefit them probably not. 

Yep and it would have been a major selling point and since Capcom seems to be in camp Nintendo right now. This would give Sony a little bit of strong faith in Namco.

Sony basically telling Namco we're going to delay our system and launch it alongside your Tales game. Both will help each other out because of the launch hype.

Not a great launch for Vita. But I'm sure Sony is not that stupid, look what have they done with PS3 and PSP. Not a great launch from previous console and handle, but they can handle it.

Being a vita owner here in Japan and by talking to my friends, basically a lot of the titles are cheaper downloadable and thats what a lot of people are doing.. but yeah hardware sales were kinda low. the wifi series is sold out around me (only checked 4-5 non major stores) but the 3g models are still around.

Most people are waiting around for Gravity, which a demo released today and everybody seemed to be pretty happy with.

Uncharted was pretty fun (better than 3) in my opinion, but yeah none of the games are a game that everybody "must have."

I think its weird because they have a lot of titles and everyone has the title they like, rather than everybody like "oh shit mario!" and jumping to go buy it, everybody kinda has their own title they want and they buy that, no big majority.

My bad, I haven't really been keeping up with the Vita's launch... I thought it was already on sale for a full 2 weeks.

meh just PR.  if it did well we would see numbers.  Their was no positive news so they just tried to find something. They could have sold 25 games online and say it did better than they expected....

Just wait for an official skinned vita bundle then everything will be fine.