Yesterday we pointed you to a GameTrailers TV interview with PlayStation marketing SVP Guy Longworth, and the biggest thing to come out of his mouth was confirmation of a Call of Duty title for Vita. He also said that Sony's first party groups would also be working on Vita games, even going as far as to say that "Naughty Dog will be working on something."

But they're not.

Naughty Dog community manager Arne Meyer shut that down in a NeoGAF post.

"We're not working on anything for PS Vita," Meyer said. "I won't say never, ever, but there's no plans for it right now - we've always felt that consoles play to our strengths as a studio the best."

Arne later stressed that Naughty Dog has never made a handheld game, so this clarification shouldn't be much of a surprise.

From a later NeoGAF post: " I hate to sound like a treading the line spin-meister here, but I've said that traditionally consoles have played to our strengths - and desires to push the utmost limit of resources and memory our tech and engine. That can change with the right handheld, as why I said I won't ever say "never" but we hadn't encountered that yet."

So, not "never," but still probably not.

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

DrRockso87

No Jak 4: "Never say never!" No Vita games: "Never say never!"

Yeah, I think I'm gonna say never now.

Tristrix

Why would they? With one branch of Naughty Dog working on The Last of Us and the other just finishing up a successful release of Uncharted 3 and, one would imagine, getting started on a PS4 launch title, they're pretty tied up.

As far as first party studios, I'm far more interested in what Insomniac (yeah, I know) and Guerrilla could do on the Vita.

PrinceHeir

yeah i never saw a ND handheld made game. i think if they make a crash style game it would fit perfectly on handheld

Hugh G Rection

Sony's PR seems to have really gotten worse lately, first with the new Vita commercial "never stop playing", (not even when crossing heavy traffic.)

And now this slip up.

What happened to PR like this..

janoDX

Naugthy dog impersonating...

The Silent Protagonist

This us like that time Iwata said Smash Bros. was in the works for 3DS and Wii U, but the people that make that game knew nothing about it.

Well, except ND comes out and says that newer, better hardware is thier porn.

Hugh G Rection

Well played design swan.

MisterDonut

I'm not fond of the uncharted series at all but I loved the first three Crash Bandicoot games and have heard good things about Jak&Daxter so I'm more than open to any new experiments they have.

Tristrix

That wasn't intentional, Hugh? I was actually digging the design swan. It looks so regal.

Hugh G Rection

@ Tristix Nah I put up a pic of an old Sony Ad, it was there for a second and then turned into a Design swan plug.

Ronin4life

@hugh
I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect real life incident of irony ever before ^_^;

timtheterrible

They didn't do it for the PSP, I never really expected them to do it for the Vita.

Primo

Who cares as long as they continue to make fantastic PS3 games.

RaginDude

Vita is already a dead...

Scissors

Damn that sucks, a Naught Dog Vita game would be awesome.

@Tristrix
Nice to see you back, haven't seen you around in a while.

Albert Marsh

Why would they waste their time resources on a dead platform?

CommanderMeaty

A 2D Uncharted or Jak psn/psVita spin off could be fun..

BomberJacket

Your dreams of devs leaping onto the Vita are all for naught, dawg.

Tristan77

Naughty dog is assigned to develop for the ps4, is obvious they will not develop for vita right now dah

RockWallofMight359

@Albert Marsh

I wouldn't call it DOA (not the video game) just yet. I still don't expect it to exceed the performance of the 3DS, but I do think it will find some kind of an audience in the states at the very least.

BoomingEchoes

"Naughty Dog community manager Arne Meyer shut that down in a NeoGAF post."

Right, a community manager shutting down a rumor, even when it was built on by their parent company.. That never happens and then turns out it was true all along..

Naughty Dog is probably working on something, but doesn't want Sony fans and Vita lovers getting their nuts in a bola knot because it isn't coming out this year.. Gamers not having a lick of patients and all that.

djratchet

@janodx someone needs to stick arne's face of beiber in thatn pic lol