I hope this is your last post on this site.

See what I did there?!

I'm pretty sure Sony never forecasted a number like that for PS3+PS2 so the PS3 comparison is not viable.

hmmmm, unfortunate but, I totally called it.

A real shame. I have no idea what they're playing at.

The  forecasted sales projection is not key indicators of if the system will get support by the company that makes the system, what is the key indicator is if retail chains keep ording the system. and sofar they are! i just keep getting this feeling many are getting too quick to write off any new platform.

when there is not enough market time to give any real strength to that outcome when the fact's are the system is still selling! if this year or next year the retail chains refuse to carry the PSVita than that's one thing, which is what happened to the PSPGo, which i think many are jumping the gun looking at the PSVita right now as what happened to the PSPGo will in effect happen to the PSVita.

called what? that the PSVita is a dead platform, or that Sony is going to reduce sale's projections further?

or Both?

It's better for them to lower their expectations and budget accordingly to most likely exceed them, than to aim to high, fall short, and not meet financial target.

"All they had to do was line up substantial software support from day one, and the rest would have taken care of itself. They even let Monster Hunter - the game that basically single-handedly saved the PSP - slip away from them. "

you do not think soul sacrifice may have had something to do with that? you do not think capcom, will wait for the PSVita to gain more install base before they support the PSVita with another Monster Hunter?

just because people on forums here think the platform is dead does not mean outright it is.

"The Vita doesn't make a good comparison to the PS3 because the PS3 was always going to get good software support. It was similar enough in capabilities to the 360 that it could always piggyback off of it in a way that the Vita can't piggyback off of any other system."

and the PSVita is not the same piggy backing as it would for smartphone's and Tablets?

why do you think sony day in date at the unvailing of the PSVita at the time called the NGP talked about "PLAYSTATION SUITE OR IE: PLAYSTATION MOBILE"

why do you think that Sony is getting Unity 3D game engine running on all three platforms for indie developer's and publisher's?.

Sony's idea for playstation on mobile platforms is not just relying on dedicated game handhelds they are including smartphones and Tablets in the Mobile gaming Mix. Sony is building a unfied playstation Platform. before playstation's like the PS2 and the PSP were not geared toward being a unified platform eco system for development. Sony is going toward that with Playstation. The PSVita is part of that ECO system.

If you have not noticed Microsoft is going about the same thing with Windows 8, 

Same with Nintendo. To say that Sony is writing off the PSVita based on these sales projections is a lil narow minded in thinking in my opinion, and people best be sure that can be at their own folly.

exactly, Sony's being prudent which for the past outlook for the PSVita sales projection's was not the case. At the Time they thought they could make the sales projection's, that was not the case so they are taking a more reserved outlook on sales projects for this product and price scale perception is the biggie of not just the system but blank memory and content. And i bet this has more to do with the smartphone sales that Sony is having with smartphones than what they are having with the PSVita. The smartphone market not just in hardware but software also absolutly dwarf's this part of the dedicated game handheld market.

Sony may be looking to gather slow sale's until they can drop the price without breaking the bank doing it. that means lower market share but less profit loss.

Many it seems do not think Sony is going to try to ride this out?

Well 9 years of straight loss in the TV part of their biz, show's they can have and done just that, not saying its good stratagy but it does show they have been known to do such even at such massive loss'es.

again if the retail chains keep buying the product i doubt Sony is going to call it quit's , i think they would rather sell 2 to 3 million a year than just let Nintendo be the only option for a dedicated game handheld in the market as long as A : they have the foot in the door, and B: as long as the retail chains keep restocking the product. Support is what matter's and even at this stage Sony is showing support for this platform.

Impressive? We don't even know what they are lol, since Sony is to busy hiding them, I wonder why? I think its still in last lol but ofcourse since the numbers are hidden I guess we'll never know. That's a big might by the way. They are predicting only 10 million to be sold this year which means they expect it to dip by atleast 3.5 million if the PS2 did 3 million. I thought the PS2 shipped more than that last year and Sony mentioned all of their other devices declining but the PS2. Whether you like it or not the Vita being to predicted to ship so little is alarming and if Ninty did the same for WiiU you would be all over it. Instead Ninty showed confidence in their plats. They expect 3DS to ship more than PS3, Vita, and PSP. That's pretty impressive and will be difficult but I do expect it to be achieved.