that was my point, where were you in the other threads

and yeah the start isn't the best but being that they're aren't losing money like with the ps3 I believe they are in a better position. PS3 was not just selling badly it was losing a FUCKTON of money at the same time, Vita sales may be poor but given the fact that it isn't burning a hole in their pocket gives them room, not much room, but room non the less, to take actions necessary to to get things to pick up, whether that be small price cut, including a memory card, announce big games, etc, people want to live in a world where not only is the Vita selling bad, it's losing money and that there is nothing Sony can do about it.

Sony's been in this industry for over 15 years, created two market leaders that dominated in a way Nintendo could only dream of, and not a single console sell less that 60 million units, and ALL of which do find significant support, some from the start other later but they get support,  I find it hard to believe that they would release the Vita under any less circumstances, why go through the trouble of making it affordable, (3DS was 250 at the time of the Vita price and funny how everyone forgot that before the price was announced given the significance of the specs the thing wasn't suppose to be less than 400-500 dollars without memory cards), making it easy to develop for, announcing support form all those developers if those guys were doing nothing and Sony really had nothing.

IT'S THE LAUNCH, I don't now how many times I have to keep saying that, and launches are vindictive of shit especially in Sony's case, anything can happen from now until the end of this year, and with E3, Gamescom, and TGS not even here yet, it just makes no sense to count them out now. The best thing about going low is that you know what low is, and no one has hit a low like Sony has this gen. Every single thing they could rectify has been rectified with Vita, the device design philosophy it's self is a strait kick in the nuts to what went in the ps3

Ask yourself how can Sony not have a plan for Vita if now it's revealed gaming is not only important to Sony, it is 1 of the 3 core pillars of the company. I take their silence as the clam before the storm, and the storm is coming and it's gonna be amazing. The Vita has me all giddy like the ps3 did not because of what it's shown but what it's capable of being shown. I fully expect Sony to blow the doors off of conventional handheld gaming providing experiences never seen before, just like they did with the ps3, and before you all start, screw casuals on Vita, Sony has a venue for them and that's another point. People went on and on about how the Vita was suppose to compete with smart phones and tablets and how Sony must be mad for not targeting the Vita towards those markets completely forgetting the fact that Sony makes Smart phones....and tablets. I mean and I know it's just a shot in the dark but, if Sony wanted to compete in the smart phone market they would use...oh I don't know...their own smart phones?? nahh they should use their dedicated handheld clearly that makes more sense *oh wait*

The Vita will be the Niche dedicated handheld for the hardcore looking for groundbreaking games with depth, Xperia/Android line through PlayStation Suite will be the casual venue for all the smart phone/ tablet angry bird fanatics. Vita will never break sales records but like the ps3 it won't matter, because the games will be there, and they're gonna be awesome, just wait.

I urge you haters to resist the need spit venom every chance you get least it come back to bite you in your ass.

*not even worth the effort*

Kaz has 99% of the unsolvable problems Stringer had. From a practical standpoint, it is impossible to fire japanese people in japanese factories without financial suicide. Stringer basically shut down anything possible outside of Japan to save money. As a foreigner, he had zero chances to do anything within Japan. Now Hirai steps in, being Japanese, he still can't fire people inside Japan. Notice in his blurb, he weasels around by saying something like "people will be shifted around inside the company" - wishful thinking. What we will see in the next months is Sony people outside Japan getting fired, a few Japanese inside Japan getting relocated, and some getting paid to leave, and smaller Sony parts getting sold (chemicals?, batteries?). The best that culd happen is the entire TV division being merged with Hitachi/Panasonic into a new Japanese corporation with zero Sony involvement. Let the new company sort out the downsizing then. I wish Kaz good luck with that.

Well you cant expect the to be optimistic if you only tell them what you are going to do buy not exactly how.

Anyway i dont see them turning around things so fast because "But back then Samsung and Apple were not as powerful as they are today,", their competition just got better in almost all their important branches.

In gaming i expect annoucements for vita on e3,but i doubt they will "wow" me. Im open to surpises tough.