It doesn't matter whether they were porting or not, they had a big sales potential; IIRC, one of them sold over 400k units, figures that any announced Vita game hardly will see this year. Maybe I wasn't enough clear: Square supported better WS in terms of sales potential of their titles; it doesn't have anything on Vita, aside from FFX HD which disappeared and anyway it's multi with PS3.
I understand. Yeah, it might have had bigger sales potential, although i have no idea how the demand was for the Wonderswan and ports of those games back in the days (we now know that the Wonderswan sold very little, but i'm thinking about before the system and the games were released). I have also no idea how big the sales potential for a FFX port is.
Are there any sales numbers for the Wonderswan games by the way? I'd like to read more about how they sold. 400k for a WS game sounds like a lot, isnt the LTD of the hardware less than 400k? Although WS Color and SwanCrystal were backward compatible with some games, and there was also a WS Color Final Fantasy hardware bundle, so i guess it is not impossible
Also: it was a nice support given how handheld platforms were not main platforms back then, and WS was just one of the main attempts to fight Nintendo leadership (Vita, instead, come from a platform the sold 20 mln units). Given the last generation, instead, Japan has become an handheld market mainly, and the fact that Vita is receiving nothing (SmokyDave: nothing in terms of sales; hyperbole to highlight the situation) is even more worrying. 3rd party support is abysmal, and I still wonder how anyone can argue this.
I see your point. I'm not really arguing against you calling it abysmal support. As i mentioned, 'abysmal' is an adjective, so it is all relative and there is no objectively right or wrong answer to it. I'm just saying my view on it, that i dont think the Q1 2013 for Vita is abysmal. It could be much worse as i gave examples on earlier, and i see abysmal as being pretty much the lowest of the lowest.
I see your view on it and if you want to define it as abysmal support, that is fine by me, you're not wrong about using abysmal as a definition because it is all relative depending on what you compare it to. But personally this is not how i define abysmal support because i think it could be worse (in other words, it is not the lowest of the lowest).
EDIT: And just to point out, saying that it is not abysmal does not necessarily mean i say that the support is very great. It could definitelly be better than what it is now.