PS Vita is really dead. Sony should officially announce its demise and move on without acting. Next time, when they will release sth, they need to study it wisely to get all support for it rather than abandoning it in midway !
The reason they are getting rid of PSM is that almost nobody buys from it.
This truly affects only a very small percentage of Vita owners. I've had a vita for years and own... maybe 7 psm games, the majority of which i got for free.
This is more fear mongering. Getting rid of PSM sucks, sure, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the lifespan of the Vita. PSM was a failed attempt at the mobile market, and the fact that vita supported it at all was more of a 'nice to have' than anything else for the rare good game that came to it.
Is it stupid of me to buy a Vita at this point?
No. Vita's existing library will keep you busy for ages, remote play is awesome, and there's a lot of new games coming as long as you don't need AAA monikers. In all likelihood, you would never have bought a game off of PSM in the first place. there is a decent chance that after a year of ownership, you wouldn't even have known what PSM was.
I didn't really follow that program, are there any "success stories" of apps developped for it ?
Yes, sort of? Some of the best games on PSM got greenlighted for native vita versions. There's a handful of them. Same as the psp mini program, really, which also had some hits. But in general, no?
When games came out on PSM that people actually wanted (like Tokyo Jungle adaptation) people just wished it was Vita native. We're losing something here, sure, but it's nothing near the magnitude some are making it out to be.