7 million is end of life of any console/handheld... that's dead... no other word can explain better what happened to PSV if it sold less than 7 million in the second year... the first year is fine but the second???

Well, I don't think the Gamecube had a single year with 7 million sales. Nevertheless it wasn't dead - it was not successful, but not dead.

Goodness, some people are expecting Sony to discontinue the Vita with that

The popularity of the Digimon IP is very low.  Namco Bandai owns the license for video games and they just relased a new PSP Digimon title in Japan on the 17th which netted just 45k first week.  That's not a system mover.

There's been a new Digimon game on the PSP for the past 2 years and they never light up the charts.  Nor did the Digimon games on the DS for the years before that.

Only 1 Digimon game has ever sold over 1 million units and that was back in 1999.  The next best seller was 600k 1 year later.

Tag.

Vita 2013 takes the early lead, can it fend off the 2012 EU and NA launch surge??????

But were these games any good? Cause Pokemon games don't sell only because of the brand, they are awesome games. I'm not saying this Digimon idea is something easy that will generate profit no matter what, but is it feasible? I think so. They'd have to do some work, cooperate with other companies, but it could help them establish a brand targeted at kids. And it's just an idea after all.

Updated the OP with this weeks data. The Vita is so far in front this year globally, but only because it wasn't released in the US and europe last year. Japanese weekly sales are behind last years.

This should be interesting in a couple months time.

I agree. I hope the trend will change over the year and the thing is, I hope with these weekly sales graphs we will spot the changes in momentum early.

I updated the OP with the new data. Nothing happened this week, except a increase in Japan because of some games. But that happened last year too and so the sales stay below last years.

A quick look at the poll:
 How the Vita will do in the second year?
Worse (<3 million) 35 15.84%
Same (3-4 million) 64 28.96%
Better (4-7 million) 97 43.89%
Doubling (>7 million) 25 11.31%
Total: 221

Most expecting Vita to do better in the second year. So far it is more on track to do the same or maybe even worse than last year. We will see how that develops in the upcoming weeks.