I thought it was apparant that I was referring to worldwide considering the post I quoted. Everyone also knows the holiday season is kindest to these gaming companies in the US.

While I disagree with the doomsayers, I do think Vita is having problems in Japan, and will have some problems in the rest of the world, and significant amount of time before Feb-March to November-December. 

 What is this top ten called? Is it just the 'Amazon top ten'? Or is it the top ten selling products? If it's just the Amazon top ten, with no adjectives or descriptions then it can be the top ten of whatever Amazon want. I dont use Amazon so I don't know the ins and outs, but I don't see why they wouldn't give their highest margin items advertising sweet spots. I'm happy to admit I could be totally wrong, but chances are if this list is something like the 'hottest products' or something else, then it's just a con.

 To be fair the UK website is a 'bestsellers' list - so perhaps it is just sales. Although with no fine print it could easily be a list of whats selling - with whatever they want you to buy prioritized.

 Either way, I know that physical retail these lists mean nothing. I remember reading a report that looked at the top 40 music albums HMV had in their top 40 - and revealed something like the best selling one was at number 27 and stuff. Maybe online retail doesn't have to deal with all that. Maybe.

Either way I doubt false advertising comes into it as the website will never expliciting state whatever is number 1 is their number 1 selling product.

Oh, yes, I understand your point. That top ten is sorted by popularity, which is the product with the most "likes".
However, it is also the most bought memory card attached to the system, so in this case, the 32GB card is probably the most popular and the highest selling card.

Sony is in an "alright" position now. Vita's future will really be determined with how it performs in the west. If it performs well there it will give them enough time to get titles out that are aimed at the Japanese.

The problem with the vita is that there arent any system sellers out or announced that would make people want the Vita, if you see the game that everyone are buying with their vita the best selling franchise from those game is uncharted and they sell like 5 million each after heavy bundling so the future is bleak right now

Too many people are in debt in Japan and in many other parts of the world, especially after the holiday season. This is why the Vita is hurting so much in Japan, and will hurt WW 1-2 weeks after the Vita launch. People can't afford to buy new things, but they want to buy new things and they will, but it won't be the Vita. People will look at the Vita and go; "I really want that.", "That looks sick.", "I would love to get a new handheld.", and they will buy a 3DS so they get that good feeling that they bought something new and saved money without breaking their wallet.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Vita. I even have the First Edition Bundle preordered, but without a price cut closer to the 3DS they won't get very far. In these times it's all about price. Technological advancement is not as important as it used to be, unless it's a major leap and/or a needed leap forward. Only a very few want to pay more for better graphics and a faster processor.

In short, there is no denying Nintentdo has some of the best and most fun game out there, and people can only play so much video games in a day. Why not save money and get a 3DS instead of a Vita, and still enjoy the highest quality games out there?

The bigger question being "why not save money and keep your PS3/360, not buy the Vita, but get a good deal of the Vita experience?"

Given that portability itself is less of a selling factor in the West, platform-distinguishing games are a must.

I completly agree, for any console/ handheld, platform-distinguishing games are a must. Right now it does seem the Vita is just a portable PS3 game player. They need to advertise the Vita exclusive games you can play on the system. Also, a lot of new games that Sony are bringing out are for the Vita and PS3 which doesn't help.

Though personally for me, the whole portable PS3 game player is a big reason why I'm buying it. Playing HD ports from the PS3 or streaming PS3 games to the Vita through WiFi, is a great thing for the device imo because i would much rather play games on handheld. For many others though, it isn't that big of deal and is an expensive luxery.

Investors aren't (generally) as dumb as you make them sound. When the 3DS was doing almot this bad, Nintendo said that they had a problem, and that they were taking steps to fix it. Most investors will prefer to see that than a company with their head buried in the sand.