As a Vita owner and fan, I hope they won't ignore it. I'm not expecting anything though, because from Sony's point of view it doesn't make any sense to invest in it any further, since the choice is between PS4 and Vita.
On one hand you have the PS4:
- great hardware sales, install base quickly growing
- good software sales
- positive image / hype
- 3rd party support
- market: undecided, competition struggling
- proven/receptive market
compared to the Vita:
- bad hardware sales, stagnant install base
- bad software sales
- negative image / no publicity ("dead")
- bad 3rd party support (except for indies)
- market: dominated by competitor and shrinking
- handheld-userbase not receptive towards Sony software (they would have to go through a lot of trial & error to find something that sticks - and there's no guarantee they'd actually find something); you can't force a system-selling runaway-success like Pokemon
So if you were a gaming company under financial strain like SCE, where would you invest? Where would you spend your 1st party resources?