Expecations for the next Nintendo handheld console.

[Zodiark1593]

True, but nobody wanted to pay $250 for the thing when it was new. IIRC, it was the most expensive handheld Nintendo had ever launched at the time, by a pretty wide margin. Which is fine if you're a hardcore Nintendo fan but not when you're a parent looking to pick one up for your kid. That's why they cut the price so soon after launch.

I think I paid $220 for mine on sale back in the summer of 2011. Just happened to be when they launched the ambassador program, so I got a ton of free games with it. So that made it worth it.

I have both the Vita and 3DS. I actually bought the Vita right at launch because I was a big PSP fan. The Vita is just a better device in every single way. Better hardware, better in the hand, better system software, better online experience. Though it's Achilles' heel is still those damn expensive memory cards, not to mention the lacklustre quality of the games. My 3DS gets played the most by far. It has the better games hands down. Thus making it the all around better system.

True, that launch price was a painful pill, and I picked mine up in September 2011, right after the price drop.

Against the onslaught of tablets, and smartphones (including hand-me-downs for younger children), Nintendo has got it's work cut out for it if it wants to successfully remain in the hardware business in the coming generations.

 

[Lil Frier]

I'd like to see them make a mini version of the Wii U tablet. Get something like the Vita, and make it function like the Wii U tablet, and make the remote play go both ways--handhelds on the home console, home console games on the go. A single set of software (one game, two devices) would be great.