Should Sony keep supporting the Vita with AAA games? Will it just end up being an indie machine?

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It can still be saved. I think the first step would be to actually send stands with games to shops. Literally flood shops with games. When I go to a shop, there are barely any games on the shelf, whereas there are meters of games for other platforms. This creates a the notion that there are no games for Vita. The least they could do is make a deal with the Media Markt & Saturn chain to get some space for a nice stand and fill it up with Vita games. Put every single good game released on Vita there. Seriously, a stand with stuff like: Uncharted, Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, Killzone: Mercenary, Borderlands 2, Ys, Persona 4G, FF X HD, NFS, FIFA, Football Manager, Batman, Tearaway, Soul Sacrifice Delta (yes, make a f***ing retail release for it - the least they could do), Tales of Hearts R, Daemon Gaze, Conception II, Minecraft, two Rayman games, Gravity Rush, Unit 13, History: Legends of War, Resistance, LEGO games, LBPV, Danganronpa, Virtue's Last Reward, Oreshika and some others would draw some attention.

Just send such stands to the 1k shops this chain has in Europe and see if it changes people's perception on the console. Once people saw a nice stand yielding under the weight of so many great games, they would realise that there is actually a big number of games for it. All it would require is 1k stands and a couple thousands of copies of these games. Is that really such a huge investment for Sony? I think they could take such a risk and it wouldn't hurt them even it didn't change much. They could also send a couple of hot hostesses to the largest shops in the biggest markets to spice it up ;)

The next step should obviously be one last offensive with good, big time games. But for the first time - no bullshit. Vita needs a GTA. Vita needs a MGS. Vita needs a CoD (even just a port). They should secure these games and a handful of other known games and schedule their release in a short time period, couple it with a couple of their own bigger games (Gravity Rush 2, InFamous Vita, Gran Turismo, Killzone: Mercenary 2, a new God of War, maybe another Uncharted or a TLOU game). Just one last push. Short and sweet.

To sum up, what Vita would need is exposure and a couple games with big names in a short period of time. I think this could revive the platform in Europe, where it sold just a bit less than in Japan so far. I have no idea how to fix NA, it's probably dead there already, but Europe is still up for grabs, they just have to start doing something.