Sony insists Vita is here to stay - as an indie/kiddie game platform

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michael_stutzer said:

Mr Puggsly said:

small44 said:

Sony support was not bad at all Gravity rush,Soul Sacrifice,Uncharted,LBP,Killzone.

People complain about the lack of Gran Turismo and God of war but those games are not even on ps4

In contrast the only effort by 3rd party was Assasin creed,other 3rd party has just released some late ports Activision didn't want to even develop on vita the cod game

But PS4 has a more noteworthy library of games and always had promising library down the road.

Sony put some noteworthy games on Vita early on, but they've clearly given up. Now they're telling people the upcoming library is basically just ports of indie games and other niche stuff.

Late ports of noteworthy games can still move some hardware. It would also be a bigger effort than we're currently seeing from Sony.

Their latest big budget games such as Tearaway and Killzone didn't sell well. Especially Tearaway did terrible and it was a great game. While everyone is dissappointed that they stopped supporting it so early on, making more big budget games for it would just throwing money away. If people were buying Tearaway and Killzone (both of which are very high quality games), they would still continue making them.  They also don't really move hardware. Vita sales were horrible for a long, long time.

what did they expect you take into account the userbase when creating your budget , also uncharted on the vita sold well when you compare it with early gen ps4 games .

A lot of this has to do with budget redirects to ps4 and thats no surprise and makes sense to a degree . What they should do is look at the success of persona 4 golden and try to get more of those classic jrpg franchise on to the Vita, whether thats  them encouraging 3rd partys to bring back franchises like grandia , siukoden etc or making new ones , it's cheaper to produce those type of games on vita and you don't need to sell 1mill or more just to break even.