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Scisca said: At least we're finally getting RE from Capcom and Square also ports that mobile jRPG to Vita. I'll support these games, hopefully it's a beginning of something. |
We're getting Resident Evil from Sony, not Capcom.
Also, I think you hit the nail on the head with the first line of your post:
| Scisca said: It's unfair that so many niche devs find Vita to be a valid platform, yet no big player cares to grace it with any big franchise game. |
It's been 3 years and Vita hasn't even sold 10m. That's abysmal. And far too low to be a worthwhile investment for any big publisher. They could make a profit from it, sure, but that money would be better invested elsewhere where they could get bigger returns.
But it is a big enough userbase for "niche" devs in the west (indies) and especially Japan where the system is closing in on 4m sold and has consistently shown that it can sell niche software extremely well.
I understand where you're coming from, but on the flipside, if we weren't getting this niche support we'd be getting nothing. I, for one, am very happy with it, because Japanese games are about 80% of the reason I buy a platform (the other 20% Vita got early in its life, but sadly dried up now - the "AA" western titles). It's been pretty clear that Vita is going on this trajectory for quite a while, so it may well not be the platform for you.
