Don’t Expect A PS Vita Successor Anytime Soon — Sony

In his statement, he said, “People have mobile phones and it’s easy to play games on smartphones”. Nany games on smartphones are free, or free to start. He shared that the company worked diligently to ideal every design aspect of the portable gaming console. Using this method and a specially built “whitelist” file, players can unlock the ability to play many (but not all) previously incompatible Vita games and apps on their PlayStation TV. But having sticks and buttons makes things totally different.

After Sony launched the PlayStation Vita, emphasizing the thought that handheld console experience is a better alternative than smartphone gaming, it seems that game industries have already called the death of handheld market as mobile gaming rises.

It’s a darn shame too.

It’s a tough question, Yoshida stated when the issue was brought up.

It’s entirely possible that the whitelist approach was implemented to mollify Sony’s mobile team, which doesn’t want to acknowledge that the PlayStation Vita is moribund. Sound off below and let us know.

Sony has been accused of largely abandoning the Vita, failing to publish interesting first-party titles and to tie up third-party publication deals even when the console was relatively new.

Many considered Vita to be an excellent gaming device and one that can offer console-quality graphics, but Sony hasn’t exactly showered it with much attention. Like Wipeout, we haven’t heard a peep from Sony Bend since their 2012 Vita outing, so it’s reassuring to hear that they’re working on a new game. Nonetheless, he also highlighted the fact that, at present, dedicated portable market is “not healthy” because mobile devices are increasingly dominating the portable-gaming scenario. “We are aiming to make [mobile] one of the pillars of Nintendo’s revenue structure”, former Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said at the time.