Sad that they refer to the Vita as a ps4 accesory.

Nice marketing Sony... You're doing you job the right way.

Sony isn't trying with Vita anymore because they're satisfied with the PS4. Just look at his comment - If people buy it just to stream PS4/PS3 games, then they don't care and will be fine treating it as nothing more than a streaming device or controller.

If PS4 had failed, what would they be doing? Supporting the ever loving crap out of both PS4 and Vita and trying to push them forward. Now that the "big" console is doing well, they don't care anymore about the little one with problems.

so far i understood it, sony was talking about a surprise game that suddenly makes a lot of people buy a vita and not some game that hardly anyone expects to come to the vita. latter one can be planed but not the first one. if planning a success would be possible we would have topseller after topseller.

wut?

I know where you're coming from. I like the Vita and I would love to see more support for it, but we're not living in some kind of dreamland. Sony/SCE is a business based in reality and in reality the financial situation of Sony is quite dire and investments need to pay off. What you're suggesting would cost a ton of money, barely change the sales trajectory of the Vita, most likely not pay off and risk the success of the PS4 by eating up valuable resources.

As much as it sucks from a gamers point of view, businesswise it's probably the right choice to "ride it out" with minimal investment, while trying to get at least some money out of a failed product.

So you say, but it seems to have worked with the 3DS. Also Vita games are not as costly to develop as PS3 and PS4.

The PS4 is also quite healthy, it doesnt need a full change of focus from all things Vita.It was/is in Sony's hands to change the situation of the Vita. As a customer, i have a right to not be happy with what they are doing and reflect it on my future purchases.

I am also not a charity.

You can do whatever you want, it's not going to change the fact that Sony will choose the path they deem the best financially. They have to play it safe right now - you can see that with the PS4 as well. They would probably act differently, if they could afford it.

To check the PS4 off as a success is premature imo. It just launched a few months ago and we have no clue how it will do in the long term. You can't afford to half-ass it when you're going up against a juggernaut like Microsoft - Sony has to give it their all. To divert attention from the PS4 in hopes of selling a few more Vitas is not worth the risk. They'd just end up with 2 failed platforms instead of 1.

I see the comments ... look at the headline ... and wonder why people aren't excited. Something 'exciting' is coming and I'm interested in finding out what it is. The Vita might not sell as many as the PSP but that statement isn't just wishful thinking.

Or they're now lowering expectations and pretty much confirming they're done trying to push the Vita in any meaningful way :P

I don't think that's the case. I just think they're acknowledging that the handheld isn't going to sell as many as the PSP, not that they're giving up on it. Why would they? It's still selling, it does well for Indies, PS4 is a great motive to have one and PSNow is too. The Vita will be around for at least ten years. In what way is someones enjoyment of playing on a Vita ruined by knowing Sony doesn't think it will sell as many as the PSP?