There is no doubt that sales of Nintendo's 3DS and 2DS handhelds have been a threat to Sony's Vita. Go to JB-Hi-Fi or EG Games and you'll find a whole wall dedicated to these 3DS games, but try looking for Vita games in those same stores and you'll be astounded by their scarcity. On the other hand, if we step into the home console market, sales of the PlayStation 4 have exceeded 40million units worldwide while Nintendo's Wii U has sold less than 13 million units worldwide. To add insult to injury, very few third party developers want anything to do with it. Most of them have stuck to developing games for Sony and or Microsoft. If you bought a Wii U expecting the latest and greatest in gaming, I'm sorry to say that you got ripped off. And if you already owned either a PS3 or an Xbox 360, you got downgraded. While there are undoubtedly some fun games like Lego City Undercover, Splatoon and Xenoblade, the Wii U simply is not technologically capable of running the most advanced games currently on the market. Bob Summerwill, a senior software developer at EA Canada, went on the record to say "The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet. [...] Nintendo are walking dead at this point." Seems kind of ironic, considering their mascot is a plumber! Perhaps the most sad part about all this is that those Nintendo exclusives would be better served on PlayStation 4 with the Vita acting as a Wii U Game Pad equivalent. Porting over first party titles is doubtful, but the Vita and PS4 combination has the potential to offer you everything the Wii U could and then some. Because of its superior hardware, PlayStation can give you so much more than you could ever hope to get on Nintendo. With the Nintendo NX just around the corner, there is little doubt in many peoples' minds that the Wii U's time is over. Which brings me to the subject of this article. While there currently has been no official unveiling, earlier this month, rumour has spread that the Nintendo NX will not be a disk based console. Instead, it would use Game Cards, similar to those currently used in its 3DS handhelds. To add credence to this rumor, a year ago a Nintendo patent was leaked showing what appeared to be plans for a video game console with no CD drive, only a card drive. This has led some to speculate that the Nintendo NX will be backwards compatible with 3DS and DS games and also offer the portability of any conventional handheld. If true, this would allow you to play 3DS games and any card based games intended for the NX on your television, and still be able to take them wherever you go. This has been considered by some as Nintendo's strategy to catch up with Sony and Microsoft, maybe even surpass them. Catch up with them? Maybe. Surpass them? No. Despite the hype train about Nintendo's card based console, the media seems to overlook the fact that Sony already beat Nintendo to it. The PlayStation TV and Vita systems already give gamers just what has been speculated by Nintendo fans. The games are stored on cards; you have a tiny plug and play console that lets you play the games on a TV; and when you need to go somewhere you can simply pop the memory and game cards out, stick them in your Vita, and continue playing while on the go. Speaking from personal experience, I amazingly find myself using the PlayStation TV more than I use the PlayStation 4. When I'm on the train or bus or on a break in public I can pull the Vita our of my bag and play some Killzone or Wipeout 2048 or whatever, then when I get home I can continue playing on my PSTV. So why has the fact that Sony already beat Nintendo to a card based console so overlooked? You guess it, the Whitelist! One of the reasons I constantly find myself using the PSTV over the PS4 is because I have the whitelist hack enabled and now I am free to play any Vita games that normally I could only play on the handheld. If there was never a whitelist, if you had the ability to play all Vita games on your PSTV, if you could use the Vita as a controller to get around any compatibility issues: not only would more people remember this device, but there would be little for Nintendo to gloat about. Everybody would just see it as Nintendo's answer Sony's PlayStation TV and Vita system. But it is clear that the PlayStation TV has its share of fans. At the time of my writing this article over 430 people have signed this petition, my video on this subject has been seen over 11,600 times, and now the PlayStation TV is in short supply. This morning I checked the EG Games website, only four brand new units are listed for the entire country! EB Games also dropped the price from $99.95AU to $47AU. So what does the future hold if the Nintendo NX is indeed a card based console with 3DS backwards compatibility? As stated above, they wouldn't be surpassing Sony. They'd only be, once again, catching up with Sony. But ironically, this may very well be the saving grace for the PlayStation TV. If the NX is card based, plays 3DS games, and sells well, it would probably give Sony a boost of renewed interest in the PlayStation TV. Maybe it will even compel them to release a PlayStation TV 2, a successor console that out the box is compatible with all Vita games and supports the Vita as a controller. And for those who already bought a PSTV1, maybe then Sony will drop the blacklist and release an update that allows you to use the Vita as a controller. I honestly don't see where there is an advantage for Nintendo to make a card based console. At best they'd be catching up with their competitor, at worst they'd unwittingly encourage their competitor to bring their micro console back from the dead.