The good thing about nintendo games is that you can observe some of the rarest species present in the japanese charts ecosystem: the positive percentage. Truly magnificent beasts.

07./10. [3DS] Super Mario Land 3D (Nintendo) - 10,018 / 1,605,114 (+2%)
10./14. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) - 7,771 / 1,728,338 (+2%)

FF VII remake would be very good for the 3ds, but don't act like it's the holy grail. Games like MH4, the new 2d mario game and the new pokemon game will sell much more than a FF VII remake ever will.

Nah. Im talking Japan. PSP was dominated by the DS there, yet the PSP still found an audience and still got big games.

My point is, wait until we see what games are out in the future. Wait for TGS. DS had Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, it had Pokemon and Mario... Yet the PSP still found that audience thats even keeping it popular today.

Is Vita gonna win? No. Is there still a chance for success? Of course.

DQ spin-off 500K!?? There must be some mistake...Anyway SquareEnix just achieved 13% of their forecasted sales this fiscal year in Japan. DQX will do most of the rest, so I guess SE has no other major game for Japan this year :( My squareenix budget will be 0 this year...

Well you are forgetting something there.. Psp had MH and DS didnt.... Now, 3DS has MH (MH4 will be exclusive supposedly). MH helped the psp a LOT

Not only that, the first major (that is not that major) AAA third party game DS had was Final Fantasy III Remake, released almost 2 years after the system got released.

3DS had major third party games way earlier in its lifetime. The market has much more confidence in it than it originally had with the DS. The opposite holds true for Vita/PSP.

In a few years, after the 3DS market gets saturated with software, and the smaller companies cannot find room, they will develop games for the Vita. Same thing happened for the PSP; there was simply no competition, but with Monster Hunter blowing up, PSP hardware sales were still viable enough to continue software development.

The Vita is not dead....Just in  a coma for maybe... 18 more months? Afterwards it will keep on trucking.

Monster Hunter got popular when it was on the PSP. PSP got so popular because of MH. Both MH and the PSP owe their success to eachother.

We have no idea if theres a MH game on the way for Vita. Same can be said of DQ or FF. Same can be said of any other big franchise.

The odds are REALLY stacked against it, but its not "dead" just yet.

PSP(2011 YTD)= 1,013,595
PSP+PSV(2012)=681,962(-32.7%)

Looking ahead to Week 23, PSP did 26,750 in 2011.

3DS+DS(2011 YTD)=1,520,297
3DS+DS(2012 YTD)=1,916,408(+26.1%)

Looking ahead to week 23, 3DS+DS did 35,310 in 2011.

All handhelds(2011 YTD)=2,533,892
All handhelds(2012 YTD)=2,598,370

Famitsu May

Famitsu May, 2012 Market Value (YoY)
(2012-04-30~2012-05-27)

http://news.finance.yahoo.co.jp/deta...02-mosf-stocks

Software: 13.01 billion yen (+40.0%)
Hardware: 7.23 billion yen (-2.9%)

Total: 20.24 billion yen (+20.9%)


Software Top 10:

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201206/05015713.html

01 [PS3] Dragon's Dogma (Capcom) {2012-05-24} - 302,590 / 302,590
02 [WII] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo) {2012-04-26} - 223,874 / 387,505
03 [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo) {2012-05-24} - 124,377 / 124,377
04 [PS3] Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (Capcom) {2012-04-26} - 76,123 / 321,762
05 [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening (Nintendo) {2012-04-19} - 75,065 / 401,992
06 [PSP] Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai Portable ga Tsuzuku Wake ga Nai (Bandai Namco) {2012-05-17} - 61,681 / 61,681
07 [3DS] Monster Hunter Tri G (Capcom) {2011-12-10} - 55,133 / 1,443,897
08 [PSP] Uta no Prince-Sama Debut (Broccoli) {2012-05-24} - 51,415 / 51,415
09 [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo) {2011-11-03} - 50,958 / 1,606,245
10 [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011-12-01} - 49,726 / 1,721,935

They gave mario tennis 20k more sales, nice! And Fire emblem some 10 k more, nice too!