| FiveOVER said: I really don't think you should put the blame entirely on sony here. And what exactly are your expectations out of SCEJ, they have like 4 vita game releases this year, all the while having to support both the vita and ps4. Do you expect one game a month or something? Since when does sony have control over third parties? Third parties will release on whatever console they feel is more attractive financially. |
Well, I don't know where else you would put it. Of course they can't control third parties, but they can certainly do a lot to encourage third party investments. Sony had to know what the software situation was looking like long before they ever launched the thing, and that it was absolutely dire. Any system's success or failure is determined well before it hits the market. Before it is announced, even. Without a commitment for GTA, or Final Fantasy, or Resident Evil, or Metal Gear, or Monster Hunter, they had none of the big guns that have driven Playstation's success for the past two decades now. The easiest time they would ever have getting a commitment for such system selling games would be before the Vita launches when it could still potentially be a success, because after it launches and flops without them, no one was going to touch the Vita with a ten foot pole. Which is exactly what happened.
Unless you count f2p stuff and weird little apps, SCEJ has released on average about one new game per year on the Vita. They did squeeze out two this year (three, if you cound Soul Sacrifice Delta, which I don't). I don't know what I expect out of them exactly, but it's more than they've produced. Especially since they are more of a publisher than an in-house developer, I think they should be able to ramp it up. Not like they've been rocking the PS4 all that hard this year, either, however godlike Knack was. Less concerning than their actual output thus far is the fact that they are completely silent about the Vita after Freedom Wars, and since Shu has intimated that we shouldn't expect any more big productions on the Vita from Sony, I tend to think that means SCEJ, too.
