That's just your assumption, you have no evidence whatsoever to support that claim.

You made a very direct statement and I would therefore ask you to back it up.

It's an assumption either way. That's part of the fun when you look into the future. But since you didn't back up your assumption (how could you) I don't see how I am obliged to back up mine.

"If the official price is lowered then that promotional price will be lowered....duh."

That's pretty direct if you ask me ;P

Either way, like I said before, this shouldn't stop anyone here from buying a Vita.

If the price cut doesn't come this year (now it's harder, but I still believe it's a possibility) it'll only come later next year, as, at least to my knowledge, price cuts don't occur in the first semester - even 3DS "fuck it, let's do it" price cut happened in August.

We're probably 10 months away from it, minimum.

Thing is? It seems like those here who wanted a Vita now already own one. Those who were going to put off buying it until they could get a better deal or ones who were going to consider one for Christmas but still feel they can wait? They're going to wait longer now, because they pretty much confirmed a price cut for next year. If they haven't made the leap already, why would they bother now when they'll just save $50 later and will come into the handheld when there's more games? There's a pretty strong case here now for just sitting back, relaxing and seeing what happens when it comes to games and hardware sales.

Likewise. I need at least 16gb to fit my PSP games and whatever I get for the Vita, along with anything else like music and movies.

I really wish they'd just come up with a software solution that worked with existing SD cards. That would've made the system SO much more attractive, price-wise.

"It's a Marathon, not a sprint"

As much as I agree with this statement, Sony cannot keep having this kind of strategy since the gaming industry can be unpredictable especially when you factor in the state of global economy. There are simply far too many variables to consider where at best all they can hope most likely hope for is break even. It also does not help with having a proprietary and expensive memory card.

Your assumption goes against the status quo. Mine goes with logic, so therefore the burden is on you to provide evidence to backup what you say.

It would be a logical assumption to state that if the base price of a console is reduced, then any other promotions on top would result in a lower price of the overall package. To say otherwise is lunacy.

10 years for a mobile device sounds like a good idea.

Let me show you one of the hottest phone of 2003:

10 years? I doubt it, 4 years later all smartphones will have much, much more power than Vita(5-6x+ power).

That assertion becomes even more amusing when you consider that Siemens got out of the cell phone business and sold the entire division to Benq two years after that phone was a best seller.