In particular I'm talking about the PSVita, since the PS4 is a juggernaut already.
The PSP is the best selling non-Nintendo handheld, being the only real competitor (excluding mobile and tablet) to Nintendo's control over that market. Part of its charm was a software that allowed to create homebrew with ease. And even with the massive piracy on the device, it sold enough units to attract a lot of developers to create an unique library of games. And let's be fair, other easily pirated machines (like the DS, Wii, PS2...) have sold a lot of units as well thanks to that appeal.
Looking at the PS VITA,it's the system that has suffered the most since release. It has stop selling in NA, barely sells in EU and it can barely compete with the 3DS in Japan, and with the N3DS already on stores there, the gap will expand.
I don't know the numbers of the benefits that Sony gets from the system as a whole, but I'm sure they're not good. So why not allow the PS Vita to receive a similar status as the PSP? If piracy is an excuse for publishers to not support a system, maybe they would change their minds after the Vita gets some sales. Sony doesn't make AAA titles (I don't think they make even games for it, but I'm not sure about that), so the lost videogame sales would be compensated for the hardware. I don't think the Vita can recover at this point, but what if they had that strategy from the begining?
