Two very important things were mentioned in this thread:

1) With the Wii I finally could finally play a game without succumbing to sleep.

2) The PS Vita is not a phone.

It remains to be seen if I can play a game on this thing without falling asleep since I hate handhelds. Also, the Vita not being a phone means that it will be sledding uphill in my opinion. This is why I think that the PS Vita is not the Wii and that your thesis is fundamentally flawed.

Oh, yeah! how could I forget! Looks like a nice pikmin style game, maybe I'll get it! And it's coming out soon, just checked.

My point about vita being like the wii, (which thanks to rol's quote should really be "like the the DS"), is that this console is a very important console for Sony and could determine their long lasting success or their first step into oblivion.

It's really not like the wii in any shape or form, except in the case that this is Sony's really first step into the modern gaming environment. This is a counterattack to mover downstream, and they are going to be butting heads now with iphones as well as the 3ds.

The problem is that it seems like a half-hearted attempt. In their defense, there's not a whole lot they can do short of designing some really strong IPs or making it a phone. I believe we'll see a phone version sometime next year, or at least some kind of attempt to target people outside the gaming environment. To summarize, this is not a strong counterattack against nintendo or phones, and it could put sony in a very tough position if it fails to draw a crowd. ie; it needs more than it has right now.

Yeah that's basically what it is, except I think the game is a hell of a lot more robust than pikmin ever was. It has a really nice feel and atmosphere. It's just a  blast to play. I just hope they do as good of a job on LKS 2 on Vita, because I've seen the new sprites and can't say I'm instantly in love with it as I was when looking at the wii LKS.

Eloquently put, and I'd have to say that I agree in certain respects.

The problem with the PS Vita is that I already see it as being doomed.  If  Sony really wanted it to be successful, they should have made it a phone and had Angry Birds as a launch title.

Ok, I'll give a more serious response to the point that was hidden behind the Wii-insults.

You're trying to use disruption theory, but you seem to not be familiar with the big picure. The Vita is following a pattern that Christensen calls cramming. Sony is not really trying to attract the low tier gamers, instead, they only see the technology in the disruptive products, and they cram it in their usual high performance upmarket product, that's all there is to it. They are trying to compete against disruption using conventional means.
If they really wanted to counterattack, we'd see software like Doktor Kutaragis Brain Training and Sony Sparrows and New Ratchet & Clank Brothers on it. Or if they wanted to counterattack Apple, they would have to turn a lot of their studios to heavily supporting their andoid phones.

This is not counterattack, this is not an attempt at any sort of disruption, this is just cramming.

I like the Wii very much, every Wii owner i know loves it so ...........SPEAK FOR YOURSELF BOY!!!!

Actually you could argue the PSP was the true disruptor. Because if you think about it, the PSP was actually more versatile that than the PSV because it could play movies from media.

Mike from Morgantown

I disagree, you will see soon enough when they start pushing out these new things. They are developing mini games for the vita and new apps that fit the ios environment. So yes, we are seeing that software in development. However, it's a half-hearted attempt because the device doesn't currently fit the strategy.

Plus the playstation suite is an application suite like steam. They are preparing to brand and move down using this platform.

Secondly, there's been nothing concrete but I believe we've heard rumors about a phone version of the vita coming out. Noone knows when where or how, but it's said to be on the horizon.

psv has netflix