This is what happens when you phase out an old model when your about to introduce I new one. 

Probably supply constrained.

It's the Vita though....  it's like having your faith shaked when Nintendo dropped the Virtual Boy or if Sony would have dropped the Pocketstation... the Vita didn't sell as bad as the VB but let's face it it was never really relevant anyway

Sony dropping a failure like the Vita should have 0 effect on your faith in the PlayStation brand...

Well yeah they aren't selling as much as they used to, but that's not what bothers me. Popularity comes and goes. What bothers me is Sony is bassicly giving 8.5 million of their loyal fans a big middle finger and walking away because they aren't happy with the sales.

There's a huge difference between a hated platform that sold under a million with barely any games and a platform that sold around 8.5 million, has an extremely loyal cult following, and has a decent amount of games.

Yeah, but the Virtual Boy and Vita are two very different things.

The Virtual Boy was an experiemental 3rd pillar. The technology was terrible and it ruined peoples eyes. Nintendo dropped it and gave the middle finger to 700k people.

The Vita is the official succesor to the PSP, and it is a sexy ass piece of technology. Sony is giving the middle finger to 8.5 million people.

I suggest y'all take a look at this.

http://www.vg247.com/2014/07/02/vita-stock-shortage-north-america/

It's been a miserable failure for Sony, and if anything, has damaged the brand. There's not many new games coming out (any?), zero killer apps, and even Sony is dropping support for it. Why continue it at all? 8.5 million isn't a lot for hardware...the Vita is taking up shelf space which could be used for PS3 and PS4 merchandise.

Those 8.5 million people aren't buying any games anyway. Vita games are selling terribly. Like you said, it's a "sexy ass piece of technology," but without the software, it's useless. It's like saying having the best paints in the world will make you a great painter. The Vita made the EXACT same mistakes the PSP did, but when the PSP came out the PlayStation brand was so high it sold like crazy anyway. The Vita did not have this luxury.

8.5 million and barely growing isn't a lot, really. Plus, a lot of those sales are from Japan, so if Sony does want to continue with the Vita it only kinda makes sense in Japan. But in America and Europe the thing is dead.

One other thing to note is that even when Nintendo consoles sell poorly they still have strong software sales which is another thing retailers likely look at. Ive read before that digital sales account for like 30-35% of all Vita software, if thats true then retailers likely arent making any money from software either.