Its too late, 3ds is basically uncontested at this point, yet its sales don't reflect it at all.
The days have been numbered for a long time with mobiles popularity increasing exponentially, as mobile tech impoves and more power is available for games, dedicated handhelds are only going to become even more irrelevant.

nice SIG. ;)

Nintendo would be foolish but they would still push for a handheld console in a year or two.  ;)

i don't agree that it would sell well, Xperia tried but failed.  i don't think a vita phone with sticks and dedicated buttons would be good in a phone and the form factor, etc.  the crowd in mobile gaming is content with touch based games.  and they don't need sticks and buttons to play games.  how would you compare the pricing of a vita game against a mobile game.

what do you want merge it into one?

Thanks!

Had to find one that was SFW. lol

can't wait for the 2nd season. XD

Me either!

Regarding the future of dedicated Handheld devices. Everything looks bad tbh.

Sony will do them a favor by not staying in this market.

I think you still missed a point here. Everyone has to buy a mobile phone. I have a Vita, but I also have a phone. If I had to choose just one of them to keep, I would keep the phone, because it is more important. I can say the same about a PC and a console.

The difference is that while you must have a PC, you don't need a gaming PC. So most PCs aren't capable of console-level gaming, so you either buy a console to play or upgrade your PC (more expensive and demands techinical knowledge). Now, all mobile phones are completely able to game. Any mid-end device can play relatively complex 3D games.

So what we have is that any smartphone is a Vita/3DS grade gaming device. But 95% of the PCs aren't PS4/X1 grade gaming gaming devices.

@dernebel, yes mobile market took away from the handhelds because ppl like cheap crap games, simply . Either way, my whole point to our argument is that sony never got their best studios to make games for the system, which is a fact ( cant argue that if u wanted too ). And also didn't spend much money on marketing the system, which is vital to any success with a product your trying to sell and sony didn't try and secure the monster hunter series for the system and a few others, which hurt the system more than the mobile market to a extent I believe.
Lastly, you can ask true gamers why they didn't buy the vita and take a chance with it and the top 3 reasons will always be the same.
1. high price tag for the system
2. high price for their memory cards
3. the lack of games released for the system , at least in the states. which I am speaking from, anyways.

The only place where u could see a decent collection of games for the vita were either at a mom & pop gaming store , gamestop and amazon. The places like bestbuy, walmart, toy's r us, target and such stores would only carry the bare basic in games to choose from , which hurt the system as well.
I understand your points as well, I just believe that the system was never given a true chance at being a success, since I saw the potential that sony has not apparently seen.
Anyways it was nice talking to u , take care. :)