PS Vita Passes 5 Million Units Milestone in Japan

Vive La Vita!

love my vita

Love my (under-supported) Vita too but I might sell it soon as I've not used it in a year or so...

And only in 4 1/2 years time! Wow, what an amazing feat!

OK, big question - w/ Sony all but saying no more handhelds (I read it somewhere) will all those Vita owners start playing on phones or buy the NX handheld when Vita game support stops? Though I suppose in Japan that could be 2 or 3 years from now. Maybe MS will swoop in with a handheld?

@rjejr Good question - personally, I don't see a gaming option (depending on what the NX gives us) for me.

I dislike touchscreen phone games for the controls. The Vita had great potential.

I still feel there is a market for a good handheld outside of Nintendo. If it was essentually a good controller with screen and had no silly gimmicks (touch screen mechanics or ugh memory cards) and had some good ports of classics, some new mid level releases and encouraged indie dev then I think it could sell to hardcore gamers. I think casual gamers are lost so focus on what us hardcode types want.

I'm so sorry that your parents gave up on you little Vita, keep on striving.

@Bliquid word.

Thinking of picking up a Vita this week lets wait and see

Even though I don't use it much (occasionally at home,always if I go away or am at hospital for some reason)) I use it a hellava lot more than I do the 3ds which to be honest I can't remember last time I used the Nintendo portable.
The vita is a fantastic little handheld and its a real shame it doesant get supported the way it should.

I hate to say it, but I probably would have bought more software for the vita had I not have been receiving free games for it via PS Plus...

I still use my Vita way more than my PS4. PSOne games + PSP backwards compatibility + strong third party support from Japan make this a very viable system.

I love the Vita. It will be fondly remember like one platform that really got less than it deserved

Still one of my favorite systems of all time.

@Ralizah the same. Ps vita has been my number one console for 4 years. Mainly because i can play on the train or in coffee shops.
Currenty i have put 60 plus hours into "The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel".

@Grawlog I couldn't agree more. I love my vita especially for ps1 and psp games. If course there are always Japanese via games coming slowly but surely to keep me happy. I probably spend more time on my visa than any other system. Hopefully they make a successor when the time comes. There's so much potential in the vita.

12 million Vitas world wide is actually quite good. It is a far cry from the terrible handheld people make it out to be.

@rjejr
Buying whatever Nintendo's 3DS successor is seems like a no-brainer for people into portable gaming, regardless of when Vita games stop. Nintendo has ruled this sector of the market for years. I don't think I'll move to cellphone gaming (unless there is a massive improvement in quality in the coming years) but if MS entered the portable market with a Halo game that doesn't suck (looking at you Halo 4 and 5), I'd be in line day one for that.

Never loved a handheld as much as this. I have mini's, PSP, PS1 and a few PSMobile games too. Like my Original Gameboy I can see me playing this for the next 20 years! As it does over the next 2-3 years will Sony keep the validation severs going as I can't back up my content without a connection.

Oh and I have dozens of physical and digital Vita games which will take me a life time to finish!

With the above said I always buy the Nintendo handhelds too and only ever ditched them for PSP and Vita... With Sony out though...

I finally played Killzone Mercenary on it and what a beauty. The Vita was sent out to die.

@sub12 I agree. Its always a shame when this happens.

@Gamer83 I think it's interesting MS never had a handheld gaming device. They have Xbox, Surface, those phones nobody wants, Web/MSN TV way back when. I wonder if they talked to the likes of EA about it and were told not to bother, nobody would support it? Surely they must have looked into it, they want Windows everywhere. Maybe they could have stopped Android from ever happening? I suppose they never had the programmers to jam Win 95 onto a Gameboy, and after iPhone dominance it was too late.

I do think they'll enter their other obvious missing area at E3, streaming devices. I usually don't believe rumours, but it makes sense. Not sure if it will be a $50 stick or a $100 puck, but something to get the "Guide" interface and Fantasy Football on a TV. They won't screw it up like Sony did w/ PS TV.