Sony hasn’t give up on the Vita. It has a huge upcoming library, and steady Japanese developer support.

This month in August 2014 there are no less than 13 new Vita games launching, 4 of which are true Vita exclusives. If you were paying attention you could name them.

Vita’s future appears to be entrenched in Japanese and indies titles, and for perhaps the most frequent, loyal, PS Vita users, that’s a good thing. People who use their Vita frequently are playing JRPGs or games like Spelunky, Rogue Legacy, Terraria, so it looks like that’s what the Vita is getting more of.

I spend more time gaming on my Vita now than I do on my PC, PS3 or PS4, and I’m pretty happy. Of course, I would like to see more stuff like Unit 13, Golden Abyss, KZ: Mercenary; and I still long to see something big like a Syphon Filter reboot, for example. Of course, I admit that this is pretty unrealistic at this point.

Sony did AAA for Vita. It didn’t sell the system. So they delivered more. Still didn’t sell the system. And again. Still nope. It’s not hard to see why they’re reluctant to make any big investments for Vita now.

Even after pouring a lot of money into a lot of games, the system has continued to under-perform, and the old “Vita has no games” line is still a complaint that pops up from time to time (A rather ignorant complaint, at that). If more gamers had adopted the Vita early on, the software sales might have told a different story, and we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Now, nobody in their right mind wants to fund big budget games for a handheld – not Vita, not even 3DS. Sadly, I still see gamers say they want AAA games on Vita – but I think most would rather play those games on console or PC anyway, and are in denial of that fact.

TL;DR version: Sony poured money in to a lot of AAA games and most of them didn’t sell enough. All along, gamers demanded AAA on Vita, but never followed-through by actually buying them. Sony got burned and gave up. Vita is for indies and JRPGs now. Gamers will write angsty blogs about it.

P.S. I don’t get why some people are hating on indie games. I see it frequently on the interwebs. People trashing indies simply because they’re indies. It’s like saying “I only play games from large corporations with massive $10million+ development budgets”. Sad.