JRM

If Nintendo barely scraped by with the 3DS, then the VITA is pretty much dead on arrival.

I base it on portable track record, hardware complexity, and on cellphones' popularity.

@commonperson

I remember playing Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story on SNES back in 1994. It was an ok game (i.e. wasn't the worst fighting game out there).

Far weaker than anticipated? who in their right minds thought this was actually going to sell??

(of course, watch me eat my words when Nintendo gets it right with the Wii U)

I think Nintendo painted themselves into a corner with their "casual" philosophy. With the DS, they got plenty of sales catering to the non-gamer crowd. They released all kinds of oddball software, which requires little player commitment. Now Apple/Android has taken away that market and left nintendo back to the "children's video games" world whose sales numbers are much lower.

I don't think it's doom and gloom, but--as far as Nintendo is concerned--it's back to square one. And, personally, I can't see the PSP-Vita doing much better.

Nintendo is not usually first to release a console...I somehow don't feel very optimistic that it'll be popular with parents--especially if the touchscreen controller needs to be replaced after a kid busts the screen.

@Dubiousity

Then don't buy it.

It will likely be a re-invention of whatever few elements are still left in the Silent Hill series, but I guarantee it will not be close to the spirit that the Original 3 captured. If you're trying to get what Silent Hill was about, you're better off getting a hold of a PS2 and getting the games on ebay.

I guess this proves that the internet has become so ubiquitous to society that we can't live with it or without it. We have made the internet as contradictory as ourselves.

...the life of a frog... That's the life for me...

It's true. The DS had a slow start, and then it picked up momentum. but it was done on the strength of the redesign AND some game-changing software, neither of which the 3DS has at this point. The DS really came to its own with Nintendogs, and the Brain series--concepts that had never appeared before in such an accessible way. The 3DS needs something just as innovative to become a success, something that a mobile phone cannot do. Right now, I don't think anyone knows what it is--and it's definitely not 3-D.

I wonder how much it had to do with the Jets coming back. Although, now that I think of it, the phoenix coyotes would have the Jets' retro jersey to choose from in previous NHL versions.