A lot of the bullet points you make either DID happen with the Vita (for example, I felt it got a lot of love at events for the first year and change until the writing was on the wall), or would've been totally incompatible with Sony at the time. Like, yeah, if it were totally different, it could've succeeded more, but the biggest issue was that Sony was obsessed with power. Simply put, a handheld marketed as a portable PS3 that can't deliver PS3 level games consistently wasn't going to draw in many developers, and having sub-PS3 games would turn off the market that'd be interested in the initial idea of a portable almost-PS3. It was this self-fulfilling cycle of disappointment, that not even exclusive PlayStation franchises could help.
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