Nikkei Industry Rumor: "Devs canning Vita projects, moving to 3DS"

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theprof00 said:

Nem said:

I'm pretty sure theres good money to be made just porting things like FF7CC, FFtype zero, Kingdom Hearts BBS, FFT, Y's, etc, aswell as Gamecube and Playstation 2 games.

The problem with the Vita is 2 fold. One its too soon for it to come out and second it doesnt give you a feature you cant get on any other portable console (3DS has the 3D). Its bad marketing from SONY. Even the rubbing on the VITA system makes little sense when you're blocking the view of your own screen with it.

I didn't mean Japan devs when I said Japan only devs. I meant Japanese devs who only publish in Japan. Those games that never make it here.

I'd say the Vita really doesn't need that kind of support.

Games that are really popular in Japan are independantly made, visual novels, apps, atlus (who I'm sure arre still on board), so personally I'm not worried.

In the long run I think it would be far worse than you're thinking ...

If third party publishers give up on the PS-Vita in Japan it would have a fairly massive impact on their worldwide projected sales of countless series that are popular outside of Japan aswell. The PS-Vita would have to sell exceptionally well to compensate for this in order to hold onto big Japanese series that have worldwide appeal.