Vita tanked but the 3DS didn't tank, look at the numbers. And both have digital distribution.
Best selling game of 2013 = GTA 5. +$200M budget, 29M copies sold at $60 a copy, something like $2B revenue
Even with success nobody's hitting that type of return at $1.99. All they get is they're now the best selling screwdriver at the dollar store
The analogy is pointless. It Depends if you are talk in percentage return. Angry birds and countless others blows that out of the park. Sure we are talking about the best selling games in any given market here... but how many tripleA games tank and best are offset against a good seller or at worst take
the studio with them, cos there are plenty of crap Console games. I've played some mobile games for far longer than some xBox games.
But I am all for quality games and people will pay for them but as I keep saying you are not going to get GTA5 on the ATV cos the hardware is not up to it yet and the storage needed for levels, graphics, audio etc. so you jet cannot compare these markets at all.