For awhile now. I've seen several PSVita unboxings where the game had no Manual. Nintendo is somewhat doing this, but they give you a quick sheet which just shows key controls and stuff. Then on the 3DS they show the whole manual. (It's a button you can press.)

I agree. It's weird. 

Nintendo still offers the Points Card, though.

Well they might have provided it on the disc itself as a digital manual. I know PS All Stars did this and I was kind of disappointed because I am still like a kid and like to look through the booklet before I even start the game.

Some games have that manual in the Game Menu, generally below options.

sadly for ages now.

I miss the days when you got a thick book outlining everything.

This is why on ebay you see retro games with the instruction booklet sell for much more than one without as the little kid in us wants to read them haha.

You can tell which video game companies are cheap based on if they offer a manual or not.

Honestly, the Playstation Vita doesn't need manuals, the way they handled the manuals is very easy to navigate.   What pisses me off is when DIGITAL manuals show nothing(Like Earth Defense Portable)  for the love of god, are developers that lazy and cheap to take an hour and make a decent manual?

EA, Capcom, THQ, Warner Brothers, and Sony are notorious for ripping off customers and providing no manual.

NHL 12 pissed me off because I knew how to do no moves, and had to look them up.

I honestly missed the days of 120 page game manuals, because, the manuals actually mattered.

At least the Ragnarok Odyssey Mercenary Edition included a PROPER instruction manual, even if it's technically a game guide in a mini book.

Seems like the only way you are going to get a decent instruction manual is to buy a strategy guide, and then hope the information isn't outdated, like in Diablo 3 or MMORPG's.    At least if the strategy guides go digital, then maybe then, they will get updated with proper information.

Care to tell me which Sony games have no manual? Because I have almost all the PS3 exclusives and I fail to find one that has no manual (even if they are 7-pages manuals, they are manuals)...

No vita game comes with a booklet anymore its all digital.
only code for online is included (like unit 13)
these things are useless anyways, no one reads them.

Have you not bought a Sony game in the past year?

God of War Trilogy

Infamous Collection

Killzone Trilogy

Starhawk(My copy was the single player digital version, since I'm a Plus member)

LittleBigPlanet Karting

Ratchet and Clank Collection

Ratchet and Clank Full Frontal Assault

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale