A Japanese news report has decided to kick a system while it's down, claiming that a number of PlayStation Vita developers have canceled their projects to go and make 3DS games. Meanwhile, Sony has responded by claiming third parties are still behind it all the way.
"Major Japanese companies are cancelling all projects intended for Vita and are changing development to 3DS," a source reportedly told Nikkei.
Sony's Scott Rohde dismissed the claim as an "extremist quote" and assured Gamasutra that claims of abandonment are largely exaggerated.
"I know many, many, many third party developers are feverishly working on Vita titles, not just for now, but for the foreseeable future. There's always going to be the hot platform of the moment in our industry. There's always going to be reason to talk about a story like that."
Some have suggested that Rohde's choice of wording implies that at least some Vita developers have scrapped projects. I certainly hope it's not true, as the PS Vita needs to follow through on its solid launch lineup. I really don't want the Vita to be in a "six months between must-have titles" situation. We had enough of that with the PSP.
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12:30 PM on 02.16.2012 | 
Say what you will about third party PSP support, but there is little doubt that it was a great system for the kinds of games that you just can't find on consoles anymore. Not as good as the DS in that regard, but still far more than capable. I'd hate for the Vita to become yet another haven for the tried and true because sales just aren't as strong as they could be.
I'd rather have a niche must-have every six months, with mediocre-yet-charming games peppering the spaces in between, than have a must-have CoD clone every two months.
Let me fix that for you
- an anonymous source reportedly told Nikkei -
LOL, journalism.
I think the problem here is a system with an unattractive price point and even more unattractive price point of the memory cards. People don't care about the anti-piracy or data speed excuses the SDF makes up, people care about value in the price for themselves as consumers, not what benefits Sony or data transfer speeds.
Value trumps everything and while we can argue that its in the "eye of the beholder" it seems most eyes want the most they can get for their dollar, not the least they can get.
"Oh no! Vita is having a slow start! Lets jump off the boat and go back to 3DS!"
" a source reportedly"
" a source"
"source"
so...who was phone?
DOOOOOOOMMMEED!!!!!!!
Well the Nikkei has been pretty reliable, and accurate with their video game story's up until now. So I don't know why you'd think that this was would be any less credible, other than the fact that, you just might not like what its saying!
I could care less about the Vita, personally, I just think anonymous sources are not very credible ones. And most articles I've read agree that this sounds like pure speculation and rumor, not credible information.
But maybe you have some credible evidence to the contrary, hmmm?
Even though Monster Hunter does little over here I hope it kicks up the sales for the Vita considerably.
Japan. Monster Hunter. The Lack-of. End of discussion.
also fuck that noise
There are definitely titles from 3DS that I would like to see on the Vita, and viceversa
Do you think Nikkei would run a completely uncorroborated story that could affect share price for a company they, themselves, list as part of the Nikkei Index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, based on a random phone call that could have been made by anyone?
Anonymous to us, not to them. You have to reasonably prove you're in a position to know such things before Nikkei itself decides to send tremors down your shareholder's backs. Shit like this should never be taken as gospel, but to disregard it completely based on one of the very base journalistic cornerstones in the condition of anonymity (protected by law in the US, mostly) is just taking it way too far in the opposite direction.
I mean, look at RE: Revelation. Capcom (love them or hate them in their current state of business) just showed us a $60 game could be made for a $40 cart. Its hard to believe, what with the growth of the 3DS' sales numbers, that more companies wouldn't want to jump on that -but what better way to do that then by using games already in development? It'll surely cost them less then having to make all new games, just to figure out how to port them over.
So, its probably not doom as much as it is simply companies trying to take advantage of the 3DS' surge in sales. When the Vita picks up (and I'm pretty positive it will) everything will even out.
Good times.
Point taken. You are a gentleman and a scholar. Like you said, we should take this with a grain of salt, before all the doom and gloom starts.
The end is near for Sony.
........wat? It's like wrong artic.....eh....I don't even know.
OT: Tbh I can kind of "see it", why make a game for a system that isn't doing all that well compared to one that has a 16 million install base in a year, of course the vita hasn't even come out yet in the states but it doesn't stop the fact that the 3DS has the install base already.
You get two publishers in this type of situation, those who want to be the cause for hardware sales and launch a system into relevance, and those who rather wait it out and see if it's safe before finalizing, and I find it rather plausible for the latter to jump ship.