Cause shooters don't translate well to handhelds, and maybe 75% of all Western games are shooters.

I think almost all indie games on 3ds are from west developers

Idk if they even should tbh... Just look at some of the vita ports, they are so badly optomized from the western developers...

(Not hating on the Vita, just think most western developers are retarded when it comes to something where they have to try)

Its more that publishers don't see anything in it cause we had like: Uncharted, Luigi Mansion 2, Wipeout,alien infestation, tons of lego games as perfectly fine handheld games by Western developers

To be fair, a lot of those were developed by first-party studios of Japanese companies, even if they were developed by a western team (with the exception of maybe the lego games and alien infestation)

Any game a western developer creates ends up being something more suited toward consoles. Japan game philosophies for consoles vs handheld are diffrent. Peacewalker and portable ops have a drastically diffrent approach in comparison to console Metal Gears though they're part of the same ip. Western developers dont know how translate game design like that. Not mention the few genres western developers work in are not suited to handhelds in general. Finally western developers sell their games on everything but being a good game. That is not an option on handhelds as people care about cosmetic stuff even less there.

Publishers just aint investing because it aint selling megatons each month. Userbase will always be the answer.

And Western developers are too focused on either mobile or console. There seems to be no in between.

Western game developers simply do not have the skill to make great, successful handheld games. There is no better explanation.

They can make more money else where I guess.

They seemed to have lost interest in handhelds this gen. Userbase is much larger on mobile.