I'm still waiting to see how good remote play will be before I cast final judgement on the Vita--I expect that's why Sony was so willing to competitively price the PS4: they wanted the Vita to be a complimentary good--but I will say Sony has definitely been going directions with their portables I wouldn't have picked, and I think it's because they spent too much time watching Nintendo.

Nintendo makes portables which are their own consoles with their own titles. Sony has always said that their portables have been about "recreating" a home console experience, but in practice it feels like they didn't have a plan except "get into the handheld space." Recreating a console is just dandy, but why didn't they hold off on the PSP for another year, then release it as a portable PS2, possibly with no BC to PSOne, possibly with a slightly redesigned chipset that would have needed developers to do some porting, but basically a PS2 with a screen and a battery. That way you take your wildly successful PS2 brand and extend it's life--both for gamers and developers--for at least five years and increase your sales by about a third.

And the Vita? I know there's no hope of recreating a PS3 in a portable like that, but if you're really going to pimp Remote Play like this...isn't it hardware overkill? Just make it a 3G box with a screen for $149 (or something like that) and make it perfectly clear it's not a console, and that it requires a PS3 or a PS4 with internet to work.

I don't know. Maybe I'm grasping at straws, but if the Vita's biggest redeeming feature is going to be remote play, it's like the XBox One: if all you're going to be doing is bouncing an image from somewhere else onto a screen, this console is massive hardware overkill.

Vita's best shot right now is to try to make the best of Japan, where handheld gaming is dominant. With the right games it can still be a success there.

It is true, and a shame as well. There's a couple of games for me to play on their way, but nothing to elevate the system back into the mainstream.

Wait, they showed the Vita at E3? I must have missed it.

I really don't care about the Vita. Just takes time and resources away from platforms I'm actually interested in.,

Exactly 100%, its pretty Moot at this point, many see the Price as really the only real problem of the PSVita, and that goes for publisher's, even though the Price for what's in the PSVita is more than reasonable. that is a fact that the price of the PSVita was the very same launch price of the Nintendo 3DS and its Hardware is way more robust, but Nintendo's Price drop on the 3DS was what has done the main damage to the PSVita's viability in the market for not only Sony but also because of many big Publisher's wait for install base to grow before they invest, but consumer's will not buy the PSVita based on PRICE Perception and also based on publisher support the damage to the PSVita's perception of viability Has already been done, pretty much like it was done to the PS3 for the first few year's.

over Time the support will be there for the PSVita because Sony designed the PSVita as a companion device for the system of the PS3 and mainly the PS4. As i see it, Sony just may make the PSVita the very last Handheld they even make, concentrate on Smart Devices and if there would even be a dedicated handheld game system made for Sony at this point it would be made by Licence by other companies, Its Playstation Mobile program is a key point that without having to make Hadware they can just sell the software for Mobile devices other's make instead of themselves. Low cost increased ROI by indie pub's being able to self publish, mainly like Android and Apple's iOS.

Because that is the Direction, I think Sony is going to move their Mobile Game platform into anyway. Because with Mobile smartphones and Tablets taking the Lions share of Hardware sales, the software sales are what is important for the bottom line they just purchased the entire Sony Ericsson line , and instead of making a dedicated game handheld, Sony may move on to Just Smartphones that you can just add a bluetooth wireless game pad too, many of the other companies like Samsung are doing just that. Even Apple is doing such. Add a game pad support to a smartphone with no physical game pad built in , and let people purchase a game pad if they want.

I think Sony would be able to compete in this space because the Hardware will still be set to be just like the PSVita still Arm Cortex powered but , with games being built for smartphones and Tablet's instead of a Dedicated Handheld.

They rely too heavily on Gamescom and TGS. Now if they show nothing at Gamescom I'd be worried.