It still seems to get  the support of pretty much every Indie developer (almost everytime there is a new indie game for PS3 or even PS4 it is also for Vita)  so that fans of the handheld will still get a lot of games even if these aren't expensive games.

Dang, why do my favorite gaming devices have to be such flops? I wouldn't mind so much about the overall world-wide sales... except that the Vita seems to be doing so much better in Japan (compared to other regions), both with sales and support. I worry about all the games coming to the Vita that won't make it to the West because it's doing so poorly. At least Freedom Wars and Oreshika are making it over :(

To be honest, it's quite baffling that Japanese developers are still trying to find success on the console, since, according to VGC, only a single game has surpassed even one million in sales, maybe three at the most if they're quite undertracked. Not that I'm complaining that the Vita is getting support... but it seems strange that they keep trying. Maybe the 3ds just doesn't provide enough power, and alternatively the PS4 is just too resource intensive and new?

The publishers and developers succeeding on Vita don't expect their game to sell a million copies . I know this is very stark contrast to Capcom, SE, and Larger western publishers.  So despite low numbers there are plenty of successes on Vita.  

You're blushing.

If there was demand, there would have been supply. Japan is being kept stocked.

I feel compelled to point out it mostly has spinoffs and late ports for many of the above franchises, rather than orignal A-team games.

That said, you're still spot-on that this support still far outweighs what Western developers are doing for the 3DS, which I believe now consists exclusively of Lego games and Adventure Time titles.

Indeed. They missed out on at least 8,000 more sales in this period.

Not even close. The system will still easily push 15 million LT and it has none of the evergreen IPs that Nintendo could have invested into the VB. I doubt that Sony wont find a way to break even on the handheld (Japan will most likely assure this)  and at the end of the gen it will have one awesome game library The image of the Vita was just fine, arguably on the same level as the PSPs, but its hard for a dedictaed handheld to survive this day and age :(

That, and while the VB is argaubly the worste hardware ever developed, the Vita is pretty much the oposite .

well that downescalated quickly.

bad for sony, but I really fear if EVEN the next Nintendo handheld will be able to do anything with all that phones and tablets.....

I predict 3ds can reach 100m.

It averages at 1 physical release per week in Europe at the moment. I think US gets more physical releases too. It's Wii U that goes weeks on end without a release.

I'm on my phone atm so can't post the list. It's had a better line-up than the 3DS in 2014 though.

They're in stock everywhere around me!?!