Pft, as usual, everyone is forgetting Vita's best game this year (apart from P4G)  

That's a great box-art! But it's... Korean....?

A Korean rhythm music game..it even has a few songs from KARA

Well I was specifially talking about America in my OP when I said the PS Vita would be on death's door by the time next gen is completley underway, not WW, where I said it would definitely get a boost in Japan and Europe with a price drop and some big release.  The reason I did that was to illustrate the point that while Vita is far from dead around the world, it's got a much bigger mountain to climb in North America for the reasons mentioned above.  And if it continues struggling in the biggest market in the world, that could give many western developers pause about supporting it, especially once the next generation of consoles kicks into high gear and they start focusing all of their resources to those platforms.

And you can't compare the Vita to the PS3.  PS3 succeeded the most successful home console ever, but launched at a ridiculously high pricepoint and had hardly any big releases for the first year of its life, which caused it to lose all momentum it had going into this generation.  It took three years for it to start picking up steam... that was with the release of the Slim model and price cut to $299.  I've no doubt that PSVita will sell well once it hits like $150 or so and can compete with the 3DS in price... but when will that be?  3 years from now?  Longer?

Things like crossplay for a select few titles aren't going to do much to boost sales over the long run.  It needs to target the handheld gaming market's biggest consumers... the under 13 crowd.  This is why Nintendo always runs away with the handheld market every generation, and neither SEGA before, nor Sony now have seemed to figure that out yet, always opting for more powerful, flashier hardware than what Nintendo has, with the same results every time.

Actually, sales were up about 500k from the LittleBigPlanet game that came out before it.  Which brings me to my point.  The game should be seen as following on from the PSP LBP rather than the console versions.  

Also, would you say the 3D Mario franchise was in decline because Mario Galaxy 2 sold noticably less than the first game?  Because that's almost exactly the same situation - numbered sequel which is similar but different to the first game.  I wouldn't say Mario was on the decline, anyway.

 Im pretty sure I said that Sony is fairly pleased with vita digital sales, meaning they would have to know how many have sold.  I guess i didnt specify enough, there is no way for we the people to know exactly how many digital copies of games were sold, of course Sony can track their own sales they just refuse to make them public... And which 3ds games did you purchase exactly?  I also think its incredible that the vita has been out for less than a year and its being declared "dead" in any region, wait until their game heaven event and tgs.    

Look at your entire list, then take out all the games that you will be able to play if you already have a PS3

What are you left with?

That is why people say it doesn't have enough content... the on-the-go argument is not enough to justify a $250 hardware cost to have access to games you could get and play on your PS3. The PSV that have sold, have mostly sold to people that already own a PS3 - this according to Sony.

Yep Vita is as good as dead, and lol at all the PS3 comparisons.

Well I would prefer the games we have had in the first 6 months than a single game which was a remake :)

@exile I wonder why they sell like crap.