Sony says No to Ps Vita 2

[couchmonkey]

Ka-pi96 said:

couchmonkey said:

I think by ceding the handheld battle, Sony allows Switch to act as a lever to pry Japanese third party support away.  For example, I'd suggest most Vita developers are more likely to move over to Switch than to PS4.

Products with a very high worldwide base and less demonstrated success on portable systems can hold out on Playstation for a while, maybe Metal Gear Solid is a good example, but for something like Monster Hunter or Dragon Quest, can you afford to skip Switch?

Why does it have to be one or the other? Japanese developers have been stupid in the past, that doesn't mean they have to continue being stupid though. Western developers realised a long time ago that games should be multiplat by default, it's about time Japanese ones learned that too.

True, it doesn't have to be one or the other.  For me personally, if you take away the third party exclusives, Sony loses most of it's appeal to me, but that's a biased Nintendo fanboy opinon. :)  I do think it leaves Sony in a vulnerable state even if Japanese third parties started to treat Nintendo equally.