Sony: climate “not healthy” for PlayStation Vita successor

While not all games utilize these features, Sony went on to implement a controversial whitelist for their PlayStation TV microconsole that would prevent Vita games from being played on it, a decision which our technical users might see the point of implementing. Unfortunately, smartphone gaming is such a huge obstacle that during a Q&A session at EGX 2015, Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, told attendees that the climate is “not healthy” enough for Sony to release the PS Vita 2 right now.

He added: “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”.

“That’s a tough question”, he replied when asked about a successor to PlayStation Vita. The PlayStation 4 delivers a high-definition image, stereoscopic at 120 frames a second, which is double what most games that you imagine today deliver.

This was done by sending an email that has a malicious.dat file attachment, along with a specially crafted email subject line. The PlayStation TV already lets users simulate the touchscreen and rear touchpad using a DualShock controller, so occasional touch-based mini-games shouldn’t be a big concern (though the Vita’s camera and tilt controls are a different story).

The PlayStation TV from Sony made its way over to the United States in October past year, and there has been not much news about this particular living room peripheral since then.

We haven’t been able to test the hack for ourselves yet, but Vita Reviews has a growing list of Vita games and apps that are newly playable on a hacked PlayStation TV system. In other words, hackers. It will take more testing to figure that out. “And many games on smartphones are free, or free to start”.