why do you assume people wouldnt be so nice if nintendo would cut first party support for the wii u? there is no reason to do this to the 3DS, as its doingrelatively well, thus it would be understandable if people would get pissy.

and there are plenty of posts/threads by people who blame sony for the downfall of the vita pretending they had no reason at all and doing it just to cause aggrevation.

But I think this thread is about first party games only.

Like others have said... One could easily deduce this on their own a few years back.

As long as the third party support keeps coming I am fine with it.

I thought this was already announced before?

Apparently millions of people. And just look at Japan and there you'll find ur answer. 

ugh that is the worst.

This news is so shocking that I am glad I am already sitting down...

But seriously this is something we all knew and hopefully it means Sony will actually put some effort into 1st party PS4 games in the near future.

The only frustrating thing about this is that SCEJ have had some pretty decent successes in the Japanese market (Freedom Wars being their highest selling game since White Knight Chronicles), but that's all thrown out the window because PS4.

I get why the western studios aren't developing for it. There's no money to be made from western handhelds that aren't Nintendo any more (and even that's shrinking). But in Japan there is a market - and a market that was embracing first-party stuff too.

Ah well. At least it looks like we're going to get a last hurrah of localizations in 2016, and for all that the situation regarding Sony continually shitting on Vita is frustrating, at least it's had a good run with plenty of games I've loved.

Also, this doesn't mean that second-party stuff won't come, I suppose.  We're already getting that Phineas & Ferb game next month and I suppose Gio Corsi might support it with a few more ports, too.

I'm okay with it, I'm not a fan of handheld gaming.