Some Vita related excerts from a Jim Ryan interview:
GC: Well, I don’t think you’re going to like this question either: are you ever going to make another PS Vita game?
JR: Well, you must not have been paying all that much attention last night because it was stated that over a 100 are in production right now.
GC: 100 in production? Uh huh, so what happened last year then? You must’ve had zero in production then given how many have come out recently. What was the last big Sony first party title for PS Vita?
PR guy: PlayStation Pets.
GC: PlayStation Pets?! [laughs] Oh boy, who could forget that one.
JR: My seven-year-old loves it, please don’t be disrespectful about PlayStation Pets.
GC: Has Sony given up on the PS Vita?
JR: No!
GC: Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great console. Remote Play is great and the indie support is excellent. But you didn’t announce any first party titles last night, and you didn’t last year either. Apart from a vague hint about Gravity Rush 2 I can’t think of any other way in which you’re supporting the system with your own games. I mean it’s a difficult market, everyone knows that…
JR: It is a difficult market.
PR guy: Last night Entwined was announced for PS Vita.
GC: [Luigi death stare] You know what I’m getting at.
JR: I do.
GC: I’m not gloating over the PS Vita’s failure here. I’m trying to see if there’s any hope for a turnaround for it, as a platform for new mainstream games. Because it’s a great console and I want to see it succeed. I want to see all consoles being successful.
JR: Well, you can define success in a number of ways.
GC: I think how many you’ve sold is the traditional method.
All: [laughs]
JR: Are you going to see huge, mega budget PS Vita games that we have developed and we publish? I think that’s unlikely. That said, does Vita play an increasingly important role in our overall ecosystem… the old vertical silos where nothing ever talked to each other, that’s all breaking down now.
Whether it’s PlayStation Now, whether it’s Remote Play… where the statistics are really surprising in terms of the number of people who use the Remote Play functionality and the extent to which they use it. It’s not like they use it once and then they say, ‘OK, that’s great’ and then they put the PS Vita back in the draw.
GC: Do you have a percentage for that at all?
PR guy: No, we were going to do it last night but we didn’t. It ended up not being included.
JR: It’s double digits, so it does work. It will be a client device for PlayStation Now, and even potentially quite an important one. So in the sense it was initially intended – having huge, portable, exclusively-designed portable games – is that it’s future? Probably not. But does it have a future? Yes.
In response to "That said, does Vita play an increasingly important role in our overall ecosystem"
I don't see how a compnay selling a games console can think that not making more software for it someohow makes it more important in the ecosystem. It is exactly the opposite.
