Well, if I had a large collection of UMD games and a PSP, I'd want to keep them, as I'm not a huge fan of digital downloads (unless it's the only way I can get the game without importing).

Yes, there are a lot of titles, but which of them will sell millions.

the ones i think will sell over a million eventually are mostly remakes, there's a lot of new IPs and no way to know how well they'll do. metal gear solid collection and final fantasy X should sell over a million for example. i'm very excited for ZoE cause i never got to play them but i have no idea if it will sell well. uncharted is one game i think will reach a million, from what i tried of the demo it's a very good game and deserves to sell well.

like i said, variety, games that appeal to more than one type of gamer and that freaking gorgeous screen. Vita is far from doomed and saying its doomed will just make you feel silly in the future.

Here are some charts on the Vita's progress so far in Japan.
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2012/02/08/ps-vita-sales-market-share-and-the-3ds/

I don't want to call it doomed. I didn't want to call the 3DS doomed last April either. I guess I'm sort of a general worrywart for new consoles.

No, and (frankly) I cannot believe how many people voted "Yes". A handheld does not have to beat the 3DS to avoid doomnation.... there's a lot of room between the #1 and doomed.

it's too soon to worry or be pessimistic about the system, and even though sales are low right now in japan i think the 3ds was a good example of how gamers will buy as soon as what they want to play on the system comes out.

in the 3ds case all it takes is a couple of games in vita's case it might take a few more but i think i prefer it that way. they'll try to appeal more people in order to sell more systems.

if the Vita gets half the amount of jrpgs that the psp got i'll be happy enough, but i see the announced titles pilling up and it looks very promising.

I think it will be if Sony doesn't step up its game. Sony is being too confident, which is very bad. If it isn't neccessarily DOA, it will absolutely be behind the 3DS.

this system will be the first I actually buy at launch. You all need to check this out in person. I wasn't too sure going into Best Buy about pre ordering it but after playing around with it for 10 minutes I made my pre order in an instant. I think word of mouth will really carry this system.

There is a huge range of gamers. Some who game because they like to game, at the exclusion of other activity. There are some who game only when there is downtime, IE when on the bus or waiting for something. And then there is the huge spectrum in between. For a great many people their only access to gaming, and the only one they want, is through the one device we all pretty much MUST carry with it, that being the phone.

For every one person who is will to spend the money it takes to buy a dedicated handheld and the expensive (relatively) game purchases that go along with it. I can show you at least two people who would rather just use the phone they already own and buy a cheapo $1.99 game to screw around with for a few hours before they never touch the game ever again.

As these phones get more and more powerful it will become even more true. More and more people will prefer to only have the one device (phone) to do their gaming, especially when these handhelds are not nearly so much more powerful than their phones.

Take gaming out of the equation these people are going to have an iPhone or some other powerful phone. Add gaming back into the equation and the question becomes, since I already have this powerful device why would I go out and buy a 3DS or PSVita.

That's just talking about the casual style gamers. When targeting actual gamers who game just to game, both SONY and Nintendos answer to this can be seen in the design of those respective systems. They've had to further differentiate their devices to make their games exclusive. Dual Screen, 3D, back touch sensitivity, duel analog sticks. Without that differentiation there would be NO reason whatsoever to buy those systems because the iPhone would always be better.

Me I think this is quite possibly the last gen for traditional hand held gaming. At the very least the next playstation portable will be nothing more than software that can get loaded onto suitable powerful phones of which sony happens to sell some. Nintendo has some soul searching to do.