Game development on the PlayStation Vita may be the way to go as opposed to mobile. According to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior business development manager Shahid Ahmad, theres more money to be made on the companys handheld.
Ahmad told Polygon:
More developers make more money on average on Vita than they do on mobile. When people buy a Vita, they want to purchase games. I tell developers, if youre trying to build a business, then building your game and bringing it to Vita is a great investment. If you want to play the lottery, then putting a game on iOS is more like that. Youre scratching that and hoping you get discovered, hoping that a lot of people talk about you. Whereas Vita, every week when theres content coming out, people buzz about it and it spreads like wildfire, because everyones firing that console up every day to look at the content and talk about it.
http://gamingeverything.com/sony-devs-typically-making-more-money-on-ps-vita-than-mobile/
The full polygon interview is about vita, you can read it here:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/21/4642112/vita-is-ready-for-a-renaissance
Not surprising, even without data it's not hard to believe, we had many news about indies selling well on vita and it would explain the invasion of indie games on vita, in Japan even some non-indie games sold better on vita despite the huge disparity of userbase, for example muramasa and new little kings story sold better on vita than on wii, senran kagura shinovi versus sold more than the 3ds games, spike is shipping more copies of conception 2 on vita than on 3ds and so on.
I can't wait to see this thread full of vita haters, shahid haters and mobile masterrace, because no matter the news it's how every vita thread ends...