No it does however account for the sales. 3DS is currently enjoying the sales because of it's reasonable price and that's appealing to a large userbase especially the Japanese market . Vita which is selling at almost double it's price and not enough games puts it at a tough spot. 50 percent price-cut is only the solution. Kazuo Hirai must be re-thinking his strategy by now with a price-cut following much earlier than expected. But even then my point holds up- the handheld gaming market is slowly turning onto smartphones and tablets which is not good for both Vita and 3DS. And the way how Android/iOS  (software and hardware) evolve every year is to be noted. It's not about what you are doing literally in the Pic.I won't be surprised if a 2014 android device or an iphone completely trounces Vita and 3DS off its features and functionality.By then both 3DS and  especially PS Vita should make sure they have reached their maximum selling point.

Interesting prediction but I think what will infact save the Vita, in the short term at least, is a price cut once its finally annouconced. I think once the price of the WiiU is announced and the pre-order numbers start rolling in, Sony will try to counter this by dropping the Vita's price and making the Vita more attractive to a small number of gamers over the holiday season. Sony will then however herold this as a great success, and thereby try to sell even more Vitas.

I think however regardless of a price drop and all of Sony's efforts to make the Vita sell, it wouldn't be enough to over come the lure of the new WiiU hardware and possibly a killer app like Mario being released in the launch window during the holiday season for the WiiU.

Think you're well off with this, right now you are starting to see a few of the very basic DS launch games like the pheonix wright games coming to IoS which for the most part are static images not a whole lot going on so they are well suited to being controlled by taps on a screen, but as for the full blown handheld gaming experience, you just can't compare to an actual system with phsical buttons and the optional touch screen or in vitas case a touch screen and the rear touch pad, if you wanna see the real limitations of ios controls try and get the iphone version of street fighter 4 and then get either the 3ds's port of Super Street fighter 4 or the vitas version of Marvel Vs Capcom 3 and you will rethink just how evolved ios gaming feels.

No, the definition oxford gave reads "a small electronic device for playing computerised video games" meaning the main purpose of the device is to play games

if it had read "a small electronic device that can play computerised video games". Then you would have a point.

Are people here really trying to spin this by not classing vita as a handheld console? Thats a desperate angle to take I must say.

Ohh I was gonna predict 3.1 Million but was too scared to :(

Next time I won't let fear of being kidnapped by predicting too low stop me!

Another day, another one of these.

On the topic about whether or not a handheld video gaming device is a console, the answer is yes, yes it is. The definition someone gave from Webster's dictionary said ": an electronic system that connects to a display (as a television set) and is used primarily to play video games" for the definition of a console. Notice that a vita/3DS both have a display (resembling a television set) built onto it.

Or "Why the PS Vita bombed!" but I think that he did a marvelous job of making this unique.

Wait... he changed the title to "The PS Vita is a MAJOR flop - we need to talk about it".   "Why the PS Vita bombed!" would have been a much better title.

Someone really needs to call in the bomb squad so they can disarm the Vita before it does any more damage to Sony.

I hope you don't plan on making a bet with that prediction.

If retailers dropped the Vita after discovering their repressed dislike of money Sony would just say "screw this" and push forth a huge marketing campaign and sell the Vitas themselves through online orders with free shipping. They could even stop all production of physical games and bundle in 32gb cards to go all digital, keep prices low on PSN, and then bad mouth all the retailers in private meetings with their wads of cash.