From a business standpoint, if you're losing money on it a year after it comes out. As long as you're not losing money, no reason to stop.

Couldn't agree more !

But the market structure is a lot different from the DS-PSP time. We have smartphones, tablets devour a big segment. If the 3DS is selling that much is because Nintendo plays differently, counting on the sales-power of its casual franchises and appealing 3rd party support. Unlike it, Sony played it the hard way, counting on power-wise which is specific to hardcore gamers, who are currently in pocession of a smartphone and a powerfull home console. So why bother?

Although the vita can be back at some time as the PSP did in Japan, it won't have enourmous sales. I think if it manged to do somewhere around 40m lifetime it would be a success.

never heard this, is this actually true? lol

No... well I never saw that and I had look all the Sony presentation slides published in the Sony sites.

Like other people have said, there's no reason to pull the plug. Keep it profitable and try and get more games out for it, that's what I'd do.

yeah, what i thought, it would be really extremely dumb to promote the compesition lol

That's a difficult question to answer. It really depends if money's being made. With the Vita, software sales are pretty decent, I don't think I've heard a dev complain about sales for games (Ubisoft was happy with Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation sales for instance). Same with the Wii U, if Nintendo can get more software out and make money, why cut it?

I think Nintendo and Sony should just join forces

I imagine they will both stick it out for the normal generation length, and both not bother with a traditional follow up. Nintendo have already merged handheld and home console departments, so they with probably go into the next generation with a hybrid console. Sony will use Gaikai to spread games to all of their products, while making a line of PS phones that are essentially the Vita successor.

Yea, I don't have a link, but around the time the PS4 was reveiled, there was a stockholders press conference, and I remember seeing Sony estimate PS4, "Durango" and Wii U sales. They predicted PS4 and "Durango" to sell 85-95 million units each, and the Wii U (at the current rate) to sell 65 million. However, Wii U's prediction was the only one which said *at the current rate. Meaning Sony realizes that they could be wrong, Wii U could explode for all we know.

Loosing money on what, just the console, or per average consumer?

Sony is planning to sell the Vita at a loss for another year and a half (I remember reading that they were expecting 3 years of loss with Vita), and Wii U is being sold at a loss too, but Nintendo says that 1 console + 1 game = small profit stilll. Plus how long was PS3 sold at a loss?

The way I see it, if the average tie ratio is about 7 games or so, then every Vita and Wii U now is sold at a profit, so it's definatly still worth selling.