In my case there is...well it is short on games at the moment for me but I'm rather dedicated to my PS3 right now. 3DS doesn't have much to offer me, I have the same issue with DS, having aquired my brother's original fo rmy wife to use. I've looked through the games to get and it is dissapointing to me, then again I am shopping for titles mostly not for me but still. I suppose I could look at the DS line up again, but after using the system for a bit I just don't like it. The dual screen set up doesn't do it for me. I've thought about upgrading to a 3DS for my wife...but it would make more sense to get a second Vita in my situation.

Once PS Mobile launches and the big titles trickle out of the next few months it might serve as more than enough reason to put down an extra $100.

Based on what Apple have said, it should be fine for battery life (well, average). Start intense gaming and it drops (3-4 hours for a game like Real Racing 3 is my guess) but considering most users only play Temple Run and Angry Birds I think it'll be fine for most users. It's actually better battery life than 4S apparently.

For a phone dual core is probably fine. I don't think many apps can take advantage of more than 2 cores and considering no iPhone has had more than 2 CPU cores then none of the app store apps are going to use more than that. It probably becomes couter productive with battery life.

Your prediction about the PSV being phased out in a few years rests on the premise that the Vita's success requires it to be the most powerful device available. I'm not sure if that's the case for the Vita.

Shinobi-san said: Low blow superchunk...cherry picking one liners (make that one line) from our months of conversations and debates around this topic and then making as if you were right all along about eveything said is ridiculous especially when you were wrong with most of the stuff you said. You know what my opinions were on the matter. I actually remember clearly stating that chances are there will be one or two phones equaling the PSV this year ( i even went on and mentioned the S3 and iphone 5) you actually then replied and said no ways the iphone 5 will be more powerfull...you said apple are usually behind android manufacturers and went on to quote some shit about the tec to be inside the S3 turns out the s3 was pretty mediocre. Which i called you out on in yet another one these threads...and somehow you made as if you were right again? And by the way this whole topic started when you were saying the PSV was obsolete 5 months ago and how amazingly stronger the then released/announced smartphones at MVC were...i called you out on your bullshit again and typical superchunk style you change your argument over the months similar to what you did with your next gen consoles predictions then make threads about how you were right. But whatever you the kinda poster than pretty much ignores responses and just continues saying the same old shit EVERY SINGLE TIME even if you are wrong. I also said "make sure you are right before you post a thread saying that i was wrong", clearly you didnt listen not that i expected you too

Ummm what are you going on about?

I qouted the one line that surmised your main arguement against me. We were discussing wether or not Vita would be matched or exceeded this year. I was saying yes with CPU/GPU launch time frames and you said no. Pretty straight forward.

Here's the thread we discussed this whole thing, it was the original comparison with iPad3.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=140964

Here's the specific post I pulled your qoute with a nice quote tree. You clearly are wrong and I was right. We were discussing the next series of chips releasing and you said they were not coming out this year, I said they were and I said Vita's chips would be in phones in 3 to 6 months and I actually expected chips like the A15 to be in the last few months of the year but, Apple obviously did it sooner.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463869

In fact here is a direct quote from me that while wrong on the CPU core, is right overall. (I expected it to tie Vita not surpass with A15s)
"iPhone 5 won't have the A5X chip. It will have an A6 chip that will be essentially identical to what Vita has. It will have the same 1GB RAM as this iPad as well as a new form factor and some new enhanced OS features. That's Apple's standard yearly changes and you should expect no different."
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4460746

Here is a post where you specifically state Vita wont' be surpassed until 2014!
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4460461

Just admit it. I'm right and you ignored the signs. :P (all posts from same thread)

Yeah, this holiday will give show if I'm right or not on Vita's short life. If they sale great, I'm probably wrong, if they sale far less than anything else...well yeah.

ok, my stance is US centric. Sorry about that. I believe all my prices are USD. What does a Vita cost there?

I back superchunk on this one.  Going as far as not posting for a month in this site; if it doesn't get phased out by the time 07/01/2013.  The current Vita situation is unsustainable, in light of new competition and limited funds Sony currently faces. 

wow... so glad I live in US. Contracts for a device you'd have anyways and want to replace every couple of years is a far better solution.

I know US isn't the only country to do this. Canada and some Europeans do to right?

this thread

Great thread. A lot of "hardcore" people seem to scoff at mobile gaming. Its here to stay and only getting bigger.