Well being fair about the state of the western development on handhelds, is not like 3DS is on a better state than PSVita... not really major westerne games have been released for that console arround a year.. probably Batman is the biggest release and is on PSVita too... but nintendo have been suporting and publishing some good Japanese games, meanwhile SONyis now making a team/studio for that...
seems more like the western developers are more fucosed on nextgen transition (I said this a year ago) rather than existing platforms or at least not the handhelds... not sure if later will become better... but would be god for Vita more multiplatform projects like Ps3/psvita or Ps4/psvita..with cross functions... promote the console as a All-in-one handheld playstation where You can play some ps3/ps4/psx/ps2 titles on the go... or interact with PS4 and more multimedia content...
Vita have a lot of potential, and Gaikai and PS4 could end unchainning that potential.. now is work of SONy to promote and the third parties to take chances of it... meanwhile let's hope more Japanese games come here.. :) that there are a LOT of good Japanese games being developed for Vita...