Shu Yoshida: Sony to focus on PS4 at TGS

[MoHasanie]

DucksUnlimited said:

MoHasanie said:
Why don't they discontinue the Vita? They clearly don't care about it and its not selling.

It's almost certainly selling at a profit, and they're getting money from memory cards and third party software sales. What reason is there for them to discontinue it?

How do you know? Including marketing costs, I doubt its profitable. Last year, Sony's game division reported a full year profit of just $18m. People said that the small profit was mainly because of Vita losses since the PS3 would have been very profitable by then. This year again, the division reported a loss of $78m. That loss is with PS plus subscirptions increasing substantially, PS4 reportedly being sold at a profit, and of course PS3 being sold at a profit. Since there would be very little research and development costs, the main culprit for the losses must be the Vita.