The pre-launch of the Vita was available at selected retailers if I'm not mistaken. All I know is that it wasn't at Futureshop when I went last week.

Also Sony reported that the pre-launch bundle was sold out.
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2012/02/23/sony-sells-out-of-ps-vita-pre-launch-bundles/

But I don't know if that means that they shipped to retailers all the copies they produced or that it sold out at retailers. I guess next week will speak volume.

The Vita was limited for some store launch in US... the real launch (for all public) is the next week numbers.

It's not obvious? I am a Nintendo Fan, I thought you knew that. ;)

There is a lot Nintendo can do for the 3DS after the price cut. They already have released quite a few colors and plan on soon releasing (or already have) them in the West. There are already several 3DS software setup for this year and Nintendo is making quite a lot of 1st party titles. Also, the 3DS Lite won't come out this year (hopefully because they don't need it.) 

There really isn't much value in the first edition bundle. The whole point of buying one was for the "exclusive privilege" of having it a week before the general release. 

It's not the worst bundle by any means, but not really a great value for $350. Little Deviants retail copy is $30, the case (arguably the best currently available), which isn't available in any other package is worth $20, and the 4GB card goes for $20 (not that anyone should be even buying the 4GB cards). 

That said, those first edition bundle cases command a premium on e-bay and the remaining first edition bundles are going for as much as $500.

The 3G launch bundle is mostly about getting a 8GB card in the package. Presumably anyone buying a 3G model is at least planning on trying the service, so paying a whopping $15 for 2 months worth of data packages and a $10 download game is hardly getting "screwed over."

They're not selling for $349 anyway. I'm sure you can find a reseller selling one for that price, but they seem to be going for quite a bit more than that currently.

If I had to guess, I would say SCE maybe produced about 100k first edition bundles. 

Not all fans. ;)

Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 2, Kid Icarus, there are several other games that'll help out the 3DS.

There was only one option to choose the 350$ 3G bundle thats why its a pre launch, next week numbers are all the Vita versions and bundles lets just wait and see.

Animal Crossing could have very good legs in Europe. It will also do very good in America and Japan. The DS managed to sell really well in Europe because it was really new, the 3DS is kind of like the PS2 to the PS3. The PS2 was already good the PS3 just had some multi-media added and better graphics. That is kind of what the 3DS is like, the 3DS will really pick up in all regions though during the holiday. The 3DS seems to be the Holiday Boss.

The next iteration of Pokemon will move over a million hardware units alone.

But Maro Kart and Mario 3D were the two biggest boosters paired with the price drop. That's not something that can be repeated every year. 

We'll see more bundles and more colors, but neither will really light sales on fire the way major soft releases will. While a redesign encorporating the 2nd circle pad should be done sooner than later, I'm not convinced that would result in massive sales since most games are designed to work without it anyway. It'll probably be at least another year before we see a redesign. 

Casual games - Nintendogs, Brain training, imagine ...

Everything that now can be received for 1 euro on android/ios market