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Sony Boss Says That The Market Isn't Healthy Enough For The VITA 2 Now

The PlayStation VITA has felt a little undervalued recently by Sony. The console constantly has a string of very solid indie games coming to it, but Sony have not been promoting it in front of audiences at conferences and even Sony's Andrew House called it a "legacy console" earlier this year.

Yesterday, I got to see president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida talk at EGX though and he addressed the future of the VITA, and why we might now be seeing a successor to the handheld for a while. After an audience question Yoshida said:

People have mobile phones and it's so easy to play games on smartphones. Many games on smartphones are free, or free to start. I myself am a huge fan of PlayStation Vita and we worked really hard on designing it. Touch based games are fun, they are minigames with really good design. But having sticks and buttons make things totally different.

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.

While I believe the mobile and handheld market is quite different, the VITA has had a hard time staying relevant to more than very passionate fans in the last few years. I'd love to see a VITA 2, but I'm not going to be holding my breath.

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