Originally Posted by Margalis

Because the 3DS has a much larger install base, in part because it costs less, which in part comes from the hardware not being as advanced as the Vita.

These things are all related. It's not like Nintendo couldn't make a more powerful portable. The fact that Nintendo portables aren't too expensive is a large part of the reason they have the libraries they do.

That's why it doesn't make sense to say "the hardware is bad but the software is good", or to say the reverse for Vita. Part of the reason Vita software is bad is that it costs too much, nobody bought it, so nobody makes games for it. People act like creating more powerful takes some sort of incredible skill - it doesn't. It's a business decision with a lot of factors involved.

You can't have the best of everything. Sony have to offset the huge manufacturing cost of the vita to the memory card, and the dev cost of an AAA original title for the vita (like golden abyss) is too high.

Sony discovered this now, which is why shahid is chasing those indie titles, or those console ports like borderland 2 and god of war collection.