We have tons of examples of install base not making a difference in terms of sales. And in regard to Monster hunter, just a reminder: the psp sold more than 300.000 units in a week with the release of a monster hunter game (after the release of several monster hunter psp games). It is plausible that the vita would have a similar boost.

hunter_alien said: Yeah... quality=/=quantity. Something of fine taste will never sell as well as a mass product Toyota sells more cars then Porsche

But a Porsche and a Toyota have a much higher price difference than a Vita and a 3DS.  Rich people buy those super expensive Porsches so they do make a lot of money.

If I were a Vita fan, I wouldn't put my hopes on a game that has not been anounced, and will be soon on it's rival console. I'll say it again, it doesn't make much business sense to develop high budget games for a console that sells so little every week.

You dont think this is significant.  Its the most significant things going on in the gaming world right now.

The Vita is currently irrelevant in its home market (yes less than 2% is irrelevant), a market where handhelds rule.

Let's not take this out of context now. Less than 2% in a single week where one of the biggest 3DS games ever in Japan released and nothing for Vita.

You may have know it for months, I have sure know it for months.  But others have been saying "no biggie, just wait" up until very very recently.  Some still are.

The issue is; if you don't have this title in development, or if it is in the early stages of development, then why risk releasing the title on the PSV as opposed to the 3DS when there's such a large sales gap?

They'll always be anomolies, yes. But you'd have to be pretty gutsy to take the plunge on the Vita and the Vita alone with no backup plan. And if they do create a backup plan in the 3DS, then you've sort of defeated the whole concept in the first place.