Price is what will kill it in the EU, the WI FI Vita a 8GB memory card and a game costs the equivalent of $450-500 in most EU countries I just can't see people been willing to pay that, especially considering you can almost buy a PS3 and a xbox 360 for the same price or a 3DS and 5 full priced games and have money to spare.

Whichever year you want - the boundaries regarding the "year of the X" are always skewed.

2011 : Vita is Dead
2012 : Vita is back
2013 and New MH Vita : OMG Vita is killing it

It's not DEAD... If anything this market proved to us time and time again that tides turn and turn. Granted the pattern does not look good for the Vita right now, but calling it dead is a lack of understanding of the market. It is in bad shape in Japan ATM, but it is MUCH too early to tell. Truth though that the 3DS is doing very well.

As for those saying the Wii is doing bad... how many Wiis can one buy??? It's called market saturation you should be aware of it guys... Proof is, Wii SW is doing good, so people are interested in the platform. Low HW sales is simply understood to be either market saturation, low expectations for a soon to be discontinued platform, or people buying the PS3 instead. Or a combination of the 3. ;)

Doooooomed! :D

If its 3 months before the Wii U? Yeah, the JApanese dont like to wait. And this is DQX, probably the biggest 3rd party console game this gen. if we're talking around 1.5 million week one minimum, then that has to shift around 100-200k consoles easy no?

*Vita is DEAD*

It amazes me that ppl consider a brand new gaming device dead on its 1month lifecycle and not even released worldwide...

vita just barley crawling pass 500k mark

So far consoles we have killed at some point in Japan.

360: Still dead
PS3: Dead for a couple year than back to life
PSP: DIED than saved by some Monster Hunter
3DS: DIED than games saved it, although most forget
Wii: alive but drunk
DS: NEVER DEAD.
PS2: EVOLUTION

Circle of life, or at least the gamer community.