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Soundwave on 11 February 2015
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Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:
Ka-pi96 said:

So why didn't they on the Vita? Because the handheld market has changed, they don't want those kinds of games anymore.


The value proposition of the Vita just isn't there. Nintendo still has their strong hold in the portable business though. Sony can piggyback off that. 

The 3DS has an entirely different set of gamers that wouldn't play those games though, so it would require new people to buy the system. The 3DS is about the same price as the Vita, so if the Vita isn't the right value for them then the 3DS wouldn't be either. Especially when you consider that people that want to play games like FIFA and GTA likely have consoles to play them on already and now those games are even releasing on mobile, making handhelds even less appealing to them.

I don't think game diversity has hurt any game platform in history. 

Anyways, having games would just be secondary to Sony, if they could parlay this into a component deal with Nintendo, making a deal is worthwhile just on that basis alone. 

Introducing kids and the Nintendo fanbase to Sony IP is also a plus for Sony. 

Ultimately too if they could secure a deal where Nintendo also agrees to support their home consoles (to which Nintendo would have several benefits), that would be the big ticket win for them. 

Downsides? Really minimal, I mean you might have to farm out some projects to studios, but so what ... Sony does that all the time and finances all types of weird indie/arthouse games. 

There's only a downside here for Sony if they were planning on making a Vita 2, which I seriously doubt.