now before you all come in here and call me crazy, idiot, moron and a douche i would just like to point out that this is an article i found on N4G. it was so bizzare that i just had to post it. the guy literally acts like the vita doesnt exist. anyways here is some part of the article the tittle says it all
Sony's upcoming PlayStation conference holds a world of possibilities, and a lot of people are speculating about the likelihood of a PS4 reveal. In Japan, however, handheld game systems reign supreme; the much more popular hope in the Land of the Rising Sun is that Sony will announce a successor to the PSP.
Despite 2012 being the PSP's seventh year on the market, the sucker hung in as competitively as could be expected, shifting nearly a million units. Impressive, considering the 3DS finally hit its software stride and has Nintendo's marketing muscle behind it. The machine is still the recipient of games that highly appeal to its established install base, like One Piece: Romance Dawn (released in December with its own special hardware bundle), Digimon Adventure, Accel World, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball, and others.

But Sony can't wait around any longer; it's time to release a second handheld system before Nintendo runs away with this generation. A lot of the big franchises that made the PSP such a success in Japan have moved to the 3DS. Some, like God Eater 2, are still set for PSP releases. A multitude of gamers, however, have followed their favorite games to the 3DS and would be hard to win back by a hypothetical second system.
here is the full article :
http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/japan-is-ready-for-the-psp2









