Well, its not selling bad cause its not doing as great as the DS... Its selling bad (more like well) cause its selling half as much as the DS without any direct "competition." The DS at least had the PSP to compete against but the Vita sales are a joke compared to the 3ds yet the 3ds still isn't doing remarkably...

And well, the ps3 didn't really do bad... 80 million+ isn't bad loll. All I am saying is that they won't make another handheld cause of how quickly and easily they gave up on the Vita after one mediocre holiday... They didn't even try to recover... Its like their commitment on the Vita is almost zero outside of Japan...

I highly doubt Sony will launch another handheld cause the Vita isn't the ps3 where Sony recovered it from being a flop, Sony seems to have zero cares left in the handheld space and I think they would much rather spend their money else where (Or maybe even save it considering how much money they lost this year in their whole company)

80 millions is a little bit less then half of what ps2 did so if you think 3ds is a failure then ps3 is a failure too,when you look psp games and ds games you see that they have completly different games so both handheld was not a direct competitor.

I think Sony know that 3rd party is the key of Vita success and since 3rd party completly abandoned Vita(in fact 3rd party never support vita) at least Sony release the second biggest Playstation IP on it.

PS3 was confirmed that it make a big loose for Sony but we don't now if Vita make them money or not especially with those big numbers of indies games,like i said to you if Sony is confident that there's next handheld will be supported by 3rd party they will release another handheld which i doubt but still possible.

• Sony will announce a new handheld (somewhere early/mid 2015)
• MS will bring the X1 Lite/Slim for Holiday 2015
• PS4 will keep it's domination WW, but X1 will be a healthy competitor in some particular regions (Wii U will sell very bad till holiday 2015).
• Lost Odyssey 2 will be announced to X1
• Dragon Quest XI will be PS4 Exclusive
• Half Life 3 will be announced, will be exclusive to Steam Console.

Well, the ps3 had a ton of issues that are not present in the 3ds... The ps3 had super high price point during launch, it had stiff competition against the 360 and wii and it had architectural issues in the sense that the cell was very hard to work with and most third party games performed better on the 360... So selling 80+ million with all those issues is quite an achievement... But the 3ds didn't really have any of those issues.. It hardly had any competition, the architecture isn't very hard to work with (compared to the ps3 level of difficutly) and it had/has plently of third party games/exclusives... So, the fact that it still can't sell as much as the ps3 is pretty bad...

And heres the thing though... See, a lot of people buy products based on experiences... One of the reasons why the ps4 is selling so well is because of how awesome the ps3 was... Sony supported the ps3 like crazy and so did third party after the first couple of years so the customer experience on it is great and memorable.. On the Vita, most games aren't appealing to most people and a lot of people are clearly seeing that Sony has no interest on supporting it which leads to a horrible experience in the eyes of a lot of people and they will remember the lack of support on the Vita so if Sony were to release another handheld, they need to regain that trust which isn't exactly easy...

The Vita to me looks like an unintended exit strategy out of the handheld market. All Sony basically seems to do is just collect whatever money they can and not go through with it ever again cause in order to build up that consumer trust that they failed with the Vita, they need a lot of work which again, I highly doubt they are preparing to do cause they have been in the business long enough to know what builds consumer trust and what distroys it and the Vita is distroying it in the handheld space for Sony imo.

But I guess its still "possible" for them to release another handheld but its also possible for me to get laid tonight but will that happen? Probably not so will this happen? Probably not

So you think it's possible but unlikly so this point it's clear

3DS has also price problem people say it's too much for a week handheld especially when it's priced the same as Vita and when 3DS got the price cut it was tracked ahead of ds for a while and the second problem was the numbers of delayed games when 3ds was interduced Nintendo list a huge list of games coming to 3ds.

3ds still had another 50$ price cut to do and still had a lot of support to improve it's sale

Just Nintendo predictions for now.

• Wii U's peak year will be 2015. ~5m units sold for the next fiscal year.
• 3DS's sales stagnate but do not decline from previous year due to introduction of the New 3DS in Western regions.
• New 3DS gets released in NA/EU before the end of this fiscal year. Probably sometime between mid-February to early March.
• Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate will hit in Q1 around the same time as the launch of the New 3DS.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS will hit all regions at the same time sometime in between Q2-Q3.
• Code Name STEAM will also hit sometime in between Q2-Q3.
• All first half 2015 Wii U games will hit their targets. Yoshi's Wooly World in February, Mario Maker in March, and Splatoon at the end of May.
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse will hit after E3, either the end of June or early July.
• Devil's Third will hit in August.
• Xenoblade Chronicles X in September. Gets rave reviews and is just awesome.
• Star Fox makes it on time, hits an October release. Partner studio isn't anyone important, someone like HexaDrive or DigitalScape for help with HD visuals. Everything else developed in-house.
• Zelda makes it on time and hits a November release.
• Mario Party 10 also hits in November, amiibo compatibility detailed at E3.
• Project Guard and Project Giant Robot are both a part of a larger collection of "mini-games" ala Nintendo Land, all of which will be announced as something at E3. Will hit sometime in 2015.
• Pokemon Z announced prior to E3, will hit in November 2015.
• Pokken Tournament will hit Japanese arcades before E3, and at E3 a worldwide Wii U release is announced for 2016.
• Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem gets a proper reveal at E3 and will hit Japan in October 2015 and a Western release in early 2016. Is revealed to be a tactical RPG similar to Fire Emblem that incorporates the Press Turn system found in SMT3 and SMTIV in some way. Will feature the alignment system where FE/SMT characters may ally with or betray each other during the story, and who you side with depends on choices made in the story.
• Fatal Frame V also is announced to be localized at E3 with a release in October 2015.
• More third party collaborations for Wii U announced at E3. I predict three more, and one will hit in 2015.
• Yo-Kai Watch finally announced for localization at E3. Will release in 2015 alongside anime.
• Bravely Second shown at E3 with a worldwide release in Q3-Q4 2015.
• Final Fantasy Explorers also shown at E3 with a Western release in Q3-Q4 2015.
• Majora's Mask 3D announced at E3, will hit October 2015.
• Next Level Games' next project to be either Wave Race or 1080 for Wii U, will hit in 2015.
• Metroid Wii U by Retro Studios announced at E3 for 2016.
• New 3D Mario announced at E3, is not a Galaxy game, releases in 2016.
• F-Zero revival teased at E3 for 2016.