The hardcore handheld dedicated gaming market is dead.  I'm a Vita owner,  and I don't care.  They would be stupid to spend their resources on it when they have the ps4 which actually has a healthy market to take over.  

The vita is good for playing ps1 classics and that's what I've used it for.  It was bought for me btw.  

I'm not saying spend 20 million dollars creating Vita games. Mojang didn't didn't spend a ton of money bringing Minecraft to Vita.

No, you didn't buy a Vita for PS1 classics. Because nobody buys consoles for backwards compatibility, so I've heard. :-p

I don't know if it was the case in Japan, but in the West, if you already had the PS3 ver of Minecraft, you got the Vita as crossbuy free. So in theory that would suggest even lower sales for Vita than PS4?

I didn't buy a Vita full stop.  It was given to me.  I'm glad Sony focus 100% on the ps4. Thats where the market is. 

Good for you buddy, but a lot of bought a Sony product hoping for better.

Bottom line, I'm not thanking Sony for Mojang's work.

Yeah and those people should have known better.  It's only worth it if you're into Japanese games.  

I'm thanking Sony and mojang.  Mojang for agreeing to put it on vita and Sony for approaching them.  High fives all round. 

Well, Sony supported Vita as much as Nintendo supported Wii U and Microsoft supported the first Xbox. The only reason why we're being citical is because we're used to being bombarded with games on PS consoles.

Nintendo published Wii U games (41):
Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival
Bayonetta
Bayonetta 2
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Devil's Third
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Dr. Luigi
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Game & Wario
Hyrule Warriors
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
Lego City Undercover
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
Mario Kart 8
Mario Party 10
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars
Mini Mario and Friends: Amiibo Challenge
NES Remix
NES Remix 2
New Super Luigi U
New Super Mario Bros. U
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Nintendo Land
Pikmin 3
Pokémon Rumble U
Pokkén Tournament
Pushmo World
Sing Party
Splatoon
Super Mario 3D World
Super Mario Maker
Super Smash Bros. 4
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
The Legend of Zelda: Twillight Princess HD
The Wonderful 101
Wii Fit U
Wii Party U
Wii Sports Club
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Yoshi's Woolly World

Sony published Vita games (40):
Borderlands 2
Dead Nation
Entwined
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Escape Plan
Everybody’s Golf 6
Freedom Wars
God of War Collection
Gravity Rush
Grim Fandango Remastered
Helldivers
Invizimals: The Alliance
Invizimals: The Resistance
Jak and Daxter Collection
Killzone: Mercenary
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition
MLB 15: The Show (+12, 13 and 14, not counted)
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
MotorStorm: RC
Murasaki Baby
Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
PlayStation Vita Pets
Ratchet & Clank Trilogy
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
Reality Fighters
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Resistance: Burning Skies
Resogun
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Soul Sacrifice (+Delta, not counted)
Super Stardust Delta
Table Sports – Football, Ice Hockey, Mini Golf, Pool and Darts
Tearaway
The Sly Collection
The Unfinished Swan
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Unit 13
Wipeout 2048

Don't get me wrong, Some of the Vita support was pretty good by Sony.

I think they made some bad bets by getting behind Borderlands 2 and Resident Evil Revelations 2 on Vita. Instead of funding those, why not fund a Gran Turismo 6 port?

Those PS2 ports are nice, but not much boast about given performance issues (Jak and Daxter Colelction is garbage nearing unplayable). A lot of the indie stuff is underhwleming. Some of the library was Sony trying to find an answer to losing Monster Hunter.

Frankly, if the Vita just had a few more marquee titles and if they did a better job on PS2 ports it would be easier to recommend a Vita.

I agree. It's a shame that the survey asking if people were interested in Gran Turismo Vita never materialized in an actual game. I also agree that Sony could've funded more 3rd party games. If not AAA then AA games like Daxter on PSP that sold 4.2 mill.

I guess they realized pretty quickly that the growing popularity of smartphone gaming (with its free games) made it impossible to make profits on handheld games without franchises like Pokémon, Super Mario, Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing and Yokai Watch. Even the 3DS that HAD those 5 franchises hardly made a profit for Nintendo.

This is pretty much it. The market completely vanished in barely a generation.

Sony realised in the first year when the likes of uncharted, little big planet, and so forth weren't shifting in volume (along with need for speed, Assassins Creed etc as big third party titles) that it was a no go.

The only reason tearaway and killzone mercenary made it out in 2013 was they were too fast along to cancel.

The difference between Nintendo and Sony with this was Sony cut their losses instantly while Nintendo threw everything at the 3DS. It doesn't look like Sony ever sold the Vita at a loss, and they have shifted an awful lot of software per system, and lots of 3rd party theyve had no investment in meaning its been pure revenue for them. It really would be interesting to see which how close Vita's profit has been to Nintendo's. Not taking a loss on hardware, not funding software, very limited marketing and memory cards etc mean it might not have been the absolute failure to sony that many view it to be.