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

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jacks81x said:
Sony will continue to support the Vita through their Japanese studios. Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice Delta, and Gravity Rush 2 are three big 1st party titles that have come or are coming in 2014.

Also, I'm interested to see if PS.Now will do anything for the Vita. People keep asking to port AAA titles from PS3 over to Vita. Well, they'll get to play those games this summer via PS.Now.

PS.Now won't change a thing for Vita. It only works when you have Wi-Fi, so 9 times out of 10 it's in your house. I have my PS3 there already, so why would I want to pay extra for PS.Now to play games on Vita, if I can play them on PS3 without paying the extra fee? Also, Vita has less buttons... That's why ports are wanted, not this.

Vita needs original, exclusive games from big and known franchises or remakes of famous old games. Wii and PC are the best platforms to search for these - The Last Story, The Conduit 1&2, No More Heroes, Cursed Mountain from Wii would be sweet. KOTOR 1 and 2, Morrowind, Vampire the Masquarade, The Bard's Tale, a Civilisation game, Heroes of M&M and such games from PC would be great as well. I know it's getting harder with each month to get these to port to Vita, Sony should have made such moves earlier, but this still should be financially viable.

I also think at this point Sony should be re-using the assets already existing on Vita. They have ported Killzone 3 engine? Awesome! Now make another Killzone with the assets from Mercenary. Design the budget so that the game is profitable with 400k copies sold and you're good to go. Get a deal to make a Destiny or Titanfall spin-offs using this engine. They should convince Ubisoft to make another exclusive AC game (the first one sold 1 mil, damn it!) or maybe a Watch Dogs spin-off - they have the engine up and running ready! Why not get EA to make another NFS soon basing on the old engine? Make another Uncharted with the existing engine, models, etc. Maybe make a TLOU spin-off with it. We have Persona 4G? Awesome! It sold great, so now get a deal for Persona 3G and Persona 5G later on.

They already have Unity and Unreal Engine 3 working on Vita, but I haven't seen them taking any kind of advantage of this fact. Why haven't we gotten the few good iOS Unity games like Deus Ex or CoD? Why hasn't Sony secured at least HD remakes of old GTA games, when R* was porting them to mobile? Why isn't there a single port of a UE3 game? Offer Activision that one of Sony studios ports the CoD engine so they can port a CoD every year. Things like that would make a difference. Sony got Borderlands 2 - awesome! But why isn't the next Borderlands coming to Vita? They got FF X and it already sold 500k+, so get that Type-0 HD remake, FF XII HD, maybe even a FF VII HD remake? I don't think that Square has the resources and talent to remake it in fullHD PS4 level quality, it would cost sick money, but they sure can make a Vita level remake. This game would make Vita explode in Japan and sell millions.

Sony should be more active and aggresive making such moves. But to do this, they actually have to start believing in the platform themselves...