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[Scisca]

Kresnik said:

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.

So it's Sony porting it? Cool. It means they still remember about Vita. Minecraft, Another World, Duke Nukem 3D, Grim Fandango, now RER2. I'm having a lot of fun with these ports. I understand Vita isn't viable for big boys to unlease new franchises or exclusive software, but ports of old games work well. Good thing Sony decided to start porting 3rd party games to Vita, I hope they port more PC games (I'm having such a blast playing DN3D! Grim Fandango will be next) with Gothic II, Morrowind (maybe Oblivion as well?), Dragon Quest VIII, FF XII and KOTOR 1&2 being my dream-lineup. Seriously, if Sony gave me these games... All are day 1 purchases! I'd actually prefer them over many exclusive Vita games. Have to wait and see what the next wave of PC ports is gonna bring I have enough jRPGs, I want a wRPG now so bad.