Sony CEO Shawn Layden Says PlayStation Vita is Still a Viable Platform
With E3 on the way, it’s a time filled with excitement and all the usual theories on what will and will not be making an appearance! Among the things that will decidedly not be getting much, if any, attention from Sony at the event this year is the PlayStation Vita. Who would have guessed?
This doesn’t really come as a surprise at this stage, but Sony Interactive Entertainment America CEO Shawn Layden says the PlayStation Vita is not yet dead. “Vita is still a viable platform,” says Layden in an interview with The Verge, “chiefly in the Japanese and Asian markets. We still have developers in Japan who are building for that platform. But it just didn’t get over the hump in Europe and America. It’s hard to know exactly why, but it didn’t garner a large enough audience here for us to continue to build for it.”
While Layden says the Vita is still his favourite portable, it seems its time in the west is well and truly coming to an end. There’s no successor to the Vita currently planned either, so it looks like portable gaming is in Nintendo’s hands for the foreseeable future, at least as far as the west is concerned.
Still, the Vita’s a really neat little platform, and it’s great to see it continues to thrive in Japan. Long may the Vita hang in there, even if by a thread!
What do you think about the Vita’s future?
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