Might as well repost here what I posted on GAF:
While I do respect them for doing this, I kinda feel like it's a necessary move because the PS3 base just wasn't buying their games anymore. They had a string of poorly performing games recently:
551 PS3 Battle Princess of Arcadias 9,854 / 11,983 2013-09-26
618 PS3 Z/X Zillions of enemy X: Zekkai no Crusade 6,758 / 8,607 2013-05-23
669 PS3 The Awakened Fate: Ultimatum 6,443 / 6,443 2014-09-25
Awakened Fate in particularly I'd have expected to perform a lot better.
So I kinda feel like they're making all this noise of "hey, we're on a new machine now!" to try and re-invigorate the old fans who were buying their games to come back again.
(Though admittedly, Witch & Hundred Knight sold decently in 2013).
In addition, it's nice to hear them pledging support for Vita, but I feel like they're much too late to the party here and should've been doing this at any point in the last 3 years when PS3 was starting to sag.
Yes, in terms of numbers of titles they have supported it - but there was a long, long period where they released nothing substantial on it (a port of Disgaea for launch and an original VN in the first year... and then nothing for 12 months until a port of a PSP title).
2014 was a much better year for them supporting Vita, but we're still looking at Disgaea port, and two "indie-esque" titles. Shin Hayarigami feels like the most worthwhile original title they've put on the console, and that was still a multi-plat VN.
For a company that grew up creating original SRPG's, it sure doesn't feel like they're throwing any substantial support behind Vita.
Anyway, I wish them luck with this plan. I own both a PS4 and a Vita and I like NIS, so I'm certainly looking forward to what they have cooking, I just hope this works out for them.
