3DS vs Vita 3rd Party Sales and Support

[DanneSandin]

Scisca said:

DanneSandin said:

Yeah, it WILL be very interesting to see future multiplat (Vita/3DS) games, and how those will pan out once the Vita gets more of an instal base. I wonder what it will take for Rockstar, Bethesda and the likes to actually develop for the Vita (and I'm even MORE curious what'll take for them to do a 3DS game).

3rd parties would benefit long term IF the Vita actually takes off. After 2 years on the market, I'm starting to doubt it'll ever will...

It's all about reaching the critical mass, so that regular 3rd party games become profitable without much risk. Vita seems to have already done it in Japan, so it will just keep on rolling there. This is the last year in which Sony really has to develop more 1st party Japanese games, just to secure Vita's position, but 3rd parties will just take it from there. On the other hand, they have to focus and spend some money on the West, so that games like Batman sell 400-500k, not just 200k (even though 200k isn't bad, I was expecting worse!).

Question is, when is that? Like I've already shown, most 3rd party games on PSV doesn't do very well. The best has yet to crack 1m, and the 10th best barely made 0.30m... So I don't really understand why 3rd parties continue to support that system; it doesn't seem worthwhile. I understand indies that supports it; they need to be everywhere, but bigger publishers?