Had heard that initially the Vita had some stuff partitioned off due to Sony wanting to save it for use with the "Social Applications" that was planned for the Vita.
This was a long time ago though before the Vita came out. Heard from another close friend in the industry. But never really heard anything official about that / looked it up. As kinda forgot about that topic from way back when.
So not exactly how correct this is. bishoptl is free to contact me about this if he wants.
I feel like this is too little too late.
Not really considering that in Japan lots of devs are still doing things with the system and there are a lot of cross platform games now that also includes the vita in the library. Bandai Namco in particular is very strong with this. Koei Tecmo also.
The West on the other hand yeah, outside of the indie titles that are still being made for the system.