Should Sony release a Vita successor soon?

You said that they don't need either... What were you talking about?

I already said. Sony needs to realize that there is a difference between the console and portable market.

I got that... Still, how is that relevant to AAA/Indie?

Dude, explain your point.

I did explain. The Vita needed more portable friendly games at launch that caught peoples attention. Sony built a piece of hardware with some unique features that could have potentially sold people on it. The console did not need to have indie games, or higher budget AAA games like Uncharted. Having those games would help, but the most important aspect sony missed was giving the device that identity of being a portable--and making fun and enjoyable portable games do not have to be AAA; the budgets do not have to be anywhere near that of xbox or ps3.

Sure, if they are making money on the Vita, no if not.

what good is making 2 dollars a month if your business is billions in debt?

Yeah. Makes the most sense...

profit is profit.

isn't Vita attach rate really high?

im saying its not enough profit for everyone to keep making these.

It appears that despite its small market share and difficulties with retail, the Vita is not a money-loser for Sony.

http://thevitalounge.net/sonys-fiscal-year-ps-vita-by-the-numbers/

It's hard to lose money on the system when you make no games for it. I'm sure that over the life of the system, Sony has not made up for the R&D costs associated with it.

there are more games on Vita than 3DS and 3DS came out a year earlier

How many games did Sony make for it over the past 12 months? It has really good support from indies and a fair amount of support from Japanese 3rd parties, but I think Killzone might be the last game Sony has made or will make for it.

If you just want to go by Sony first party games, then Killzone Mercenary and Tearaway, which were really good imo. Then we have Freedom Wars this holiday and most likely a Gravity Rush sequel. Sony's first party has never really had that much selling power though. Even for console, there's only a relatively small number of ips they have that actually sell really well. Like Gran Turismo, Uncharted/Last of Us, God of War, etc.They do publish games like they did with Borderlands 2 and now Minecraft. They also try to get indies to develop specifically for Vita. We had Metrico recently and Murasaki Baby coming up. CounterSpy and Velocity 2X are going to be awesome. Guacamelee and OlliOlli were first released on Vita. But I guess if you just want to look at it from first party, you'll miss a lot. I think Sony did their part though. Golden Abyss, LBP, Unit 13, Gravity Rush, Soul Sacrifice, Killzone Mercenary, Tearaway were all good games.

see the problem is not that its a money loser....the problem is that it isnt a money maker.

This. Because of the vita I refuse to even think about getting a PS4 let alone another Sony handheld.

The reason I am only looking at first party is because those are the games that actually cost Sony money to make. My first comment was that it is hard to lose money in a fiscal year when you aren't making any games. They had very low expenses, so of course they are making money. That doesn't make the Vita profitable overall. I realize that the Vita actually has a fairly decent library. It's just sad that Sony has stopped supporting it.

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No they should stop mobile belongs to phones.

No, Sony should focus on the PlayStation 4 now.