If this was actually true, the Vita would be doing better. Sony said when the Vita was announced that we would get console-quality titles on the go. That is what I expected, that is why I bought a Vita. For games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Killzone: Mercenary. Those are the kind of titles that would make a Vita worth owning if there were more of them. If Injustice: Gods Among Us came out at the same time on the Vita as it did on the PS3, I would have only bought the Vita version.
The Vita is lacking on the ports and console-series sequels, which sell. On the PSP my favorite games were SOCOM: Fire Team Bravo 2 (which had a huge online community), Star Wars: Battlefront II, GTA: Liberty/Vice City Stories, and Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception. I even loved the port of the King Kong game too. I wanted a Vita to play the same sort of stuff. Instead we get D-level developers making shovelware like Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified and Resistance: Burning Skies instead of competent ports or new versions of console games.
I would have killed to have a proper Ace Combat, Call of Duty, whatever on the Vita. Big-name ports and sequels are what the Vita should be getting. Mortal Kombat 9, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Killzone: Mercenary, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Borderlands 2, I want more of this. I want to see a full Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed, Bethesda RPG, Bioware RPG, SOCOM, inFAMOUS, Ace Combat, Rockstar title, so on and so forth. Unfortunately, due to lack of an install base we won't be getting them. The Vita is a RemotePlay device first and foremost now.
It is true, I only buy games on the Vita because they're exclusive to it.
But I'm going to be honest, the games I buy and love are basically complete shit in most people's minds. Conception 2 is not a system mover to anyone but an extremely niche audience. As another gaffer put it, I bought a lot of "Japanese fap-bait conversions".
Here's a list of my Vita purchases:
Conception 2, Mind Zero, Demon Gaze, Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection, Batman Arkham Origins: Black Gate, Muramasa Rebirth, Danganronpa, Persona 4 Golden. Then there's also my PS+ games and PS1 classics. I'm also going to buy Danganronpa 2, Sword Art Online, Tales of Hearts R, and a couple other things I can't remember off the top of my head this year.
Most of that crap *is* all
pretty much console games, but really damned niche ones for most of them. And Danganronpa is just a visual novel. Though I will give Danganronpa and HDN
P credit to them being games that actually felt like stuff I should be playing on the Vita.
And here's my 3DS/DS games: Pokemon X, Radiant Historia, The World Ends With You, Etrian Odyssey Untold, Fire Emblem Awakening, SMT Devil Survivor Overlocked, SMT4, SMT Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Dragon Quest IX, Dragon Quest VI, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Bravely Default. Also buying Persona Q when it comes out.
Again, all basically games that could be console games and games and I only bought a 3DS to play them, not because the 3DS is special or because I want a mobile platform. I
loved playing Zelda: A Link to the Past on my big clunky CRT TV as a kid and I'd love to play a big, high resolution 2D art Zelda in that style on my 60" Plasma as an adult.
Now as to the list of games you'd like to see - I don't want to see a single one of those games on the Vita or 3DS. I want to play all of those series on my PS4. I want to play all the Vita games I've bought on my PS4 or HDTV. Bioware wasting dev time and money on a full fledged RPG for the Vita? Fuck that noise.
It'd be just another console game shrunk down to the small screen and something I'd just play on the Vita TV, not the Vita itself.
You have no fucking idea how happy I am that Final Fantasy Type-0 is getting a PS4 port. I am filled with ecstatic GLEE over that.