Sony Explains why PSV has come up short

[Kresnik]

Scisca said:

chase123 said:

Games like R&C into the nexus,puppetear,rain,dragon's crown etc would have established this year for the vita if they were exclusive to it,but Sony had to give priority for its home console.

They will NEVER support their portables the same as their consoles.

Not just that. All these games should be exclusive on Vita (except Dragon's Crown, which is 3rd party, so Sony can't say a thing about it), but I believe every single 2013 PS3 game should be Vita exclusive. This includes Beyond: Two Souls (it would work much better with touch controls!), The Last of Us (finally a massive system seller), Ni No Kuni and Gran Turismo 6. These games would move millions of Vitas, instead they help PS3 fight the X360... As if that fight mattered at all at this point. Just one year with full Vita focus and there would be enough Vitas out there to make it a market in which 3rd parties can safely earn money. Considering development for Vita is cheaper than for PS3 and that development for PS4 is much more expensive, Vita would have a secure future, cause devs could earn money there without risking a massive PS4 level budget. It would cause a snowball effect for years to come and generate huge incomes in the long run. Instead Sony decided to be as shortsighted as they could and now is surprised that a console with the worst 1st party support in history isn't setting the world on fire and decide to just put the blame on mobiles. Cool story.

I'm going to have to disagree with a lot of the games you listed.

Into the Nexus - Vita needs an exclusive R&C, absolutely, but ItN is not that game.  Giving people a trilogy of titles all with one connected story and then saying "but you're going to have to move over to our handheld to see the conclusion of the story" is rubbish; excused only if the console the games were originally on is dead.  Which PS3 is not.  Port it, fine, but don't make it exclusive.

Dragon's Crown - third party as you said.

Ni no Kuni - third party.  Barely came to the west as it is.  If Level-5 had made another handheld version of the game (remember, it already exists on DS), it would've been for 3DS where the child audience is.  Wouldn't have been a wise investment by Sony to moneyhat because why would they moneyhat an untested-in-the-west IP which had already released on two platforms in Japan?

The Last of Us - no.  They're trying to build it into a home console brand, that much is obvious.  Make handheld-tailored experiences for handhelds, not home console games.

Puppeteer and Rain should've been on Vita.  God of War: Ascension as well (retooled if it needs to be).  Beyond: Two Souls, ehh.  I'm a little tempted to agree with you there given how The Walking Dead works on Vita.

Gran Turismo 6 is a weird one.  The game that released - no.  That needed to be a PS4 game as a first choice.  I agree it shouldn't have been a PS3 game, but I think Vita would have to wait in line behind PS4 in terms of priority.