Sony isn't planning to make a Vita successor

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With the current state of mobile gaming, a PlayStation Vita successor is not an option, according to Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida.
Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was the star of a Q&A panel at EGX 2015 last week. In it, he was asked all kinds of questions, including whether we’ll be seeing a Vita 2 anytime soon.
According to Yoshida, the current mobile and handheld climate is “unhealthy”, pointing to the difficulty of selling dedicated handheld gaming hardware.
“People have mobile phones and it’s so easy to play games on smartphones. And many games on smartphones are free, or free to start.
“I myself am a huge fan of PlayStation Vita and we worked really hard on designing every aspect. Touch-based games are fun – there are many games with really good design. But having sticks and buttons make things totally different.
“So I hope, like many of you, that this culture of playing portable games continues but the climate is not healthy for now because of the huge dominance of mobile gaming.”
Sony has long since ceased first-party development for the Vita and is in fact considering it a legacy platform. Outside of a few Japanese games and indie ports, there aren’t really a lot of reasons to own one.

Source: VG247

Mecha wrote:

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With the current state of mobile gaming, a PlayStation Vita successor is not an option, according to Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida.
Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was the star of a Q&A panel at EGX 2015 last week. In it, he was asked all kinds of questions, including whether we’ll be seeing a Vita 2 anytime soon.
According to Yoshida, the current mobile and handheld climate is “unhealthy”, pointing to the difficulty of selling dedicated handheld gaming hardware.
“People have mobile phones and it’s so easy to play games on smartphones. And many games on smartphones are free, or free to start.
“I myself am a huge fan of PlayStation Vita and we worked really hard on designing every aspect. Touch-based games are fun – there are many games with really good design. But having sticks and buttons make things totally different.
“So I hope, like many of you, that this culture of playing portable games continues but the climate is not healthy for now because of the huge dominance of mobile gaming.”
Sony has long since ceased first-party development for the Vita and is in fact considering it a legacy platform. Outside of a few Japanese games and indie ports, there aren’t really a lot of reasons to own one.

Source: VG247

Lol, your bias is showing, VG247.

a shame, such wasted potential. loved my psp.

Angelus wrote:

Mecha wrote:

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With the current state of mobile gaming, a PlayStation Vita successor is not an option, according to Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida.
Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was the star of a Q&A panel at EGX 2015 last week. In it, he was asked all kinds of questions, including whether we’ll be seeing a Vita 2 anytime soon.
According to Yoshida, the current mobile and handheld climate is “unhealthy”, pointing to the difficulty of selling dedicated handheld gaming hardware.
“People have mobile phones and it’s so easy to play games on smartphones. And many games on smartphones are free, or free to start.
“I myself am a huge fan of PlayStation Vita and we worked really hard on designing every aspect. Touch-based games are fun – there are many games with really good design. But having sticks and buttons make things totally different.
“So I hope, like many of you, that this culture of playing portable games continues but the climate is not healthy for now because of the huge dominance of mobile gaming.”
Sony has long since ceased first-party development for the Vita and is in fact considering it a legacy platform. Outside of a few Japanese games and indie ports, there aren’t really a lot of reasons to own one.

Source: VG247

Lol, your bias is showing, VG247.

It's pretty dead in terms of new support for a relatively new-ish handheld.

Maybe it would be doing better if you know, Sony was actually releasing games for it. The 3DS has sold 54 million, so this excuse they're making about mobile games is bullshit.

Sony just needs to pressure their first party developers to make stand alone games for the PSvita. If they do that, it could be a gold mine.

Teckno wrote:

Sony just needs to pressure their first party developers to make stand alone games for the PSvita. If they do that, it could be a gold mine.

Nah, had a great lineup and upcoming games at launch. The price killed it.

2Sugoi2Die wrote:

Teckno wrote:

Sony just needs to pressure their first party developers to make stand alone games for the PSvita. If they do that, it could be a gold mine.

Nah, had a great lineup and upcoming games at launch. The price killed it.

Yeah, I know. I mean now.

Also if they weren't so fucking stingy with their propriety memory, it might be more appealing.

That's fine with me, focus all your time and money on the system that is selling. So i may get more games i want.