Final Vita units still flying off the shelves in Japan

The Vita racked up another 3,000 unit sales in Japan last week according to Media Create, with those final production models likely being snapped up by importers and collectors. The number of people buying Vita consoles and physical copies of games is a cool thing to watch.

I guess the next question is when will Sony shut down the Vita PSN store? With more games being deleted in all regions, the race is on by gamers to secure safe downloads or physical copies to preserve the Vita's legacy.

As for whatever comes next, we have Microsoft now touting its own crossplay with xCloud on any device. There's Nintendo with a hopefully better-designed portable Switch on the way, leaving Sony looking increasingly out of the loop, having fluffed its lines (and early lead) with cloud and remote gaming play - the fluffed iOS PS4 recent update just the latest example.

Look at how ugly that setup is and think how good sales would be for a single portable dedicated HD gaming unit that could play Xbox and PlayStation games (perhaps even a joint development with PS/XB faceplates), also supporting back catalogue and retro titles? Never happen, will it???