This is what you get when you abandoned the Vita and the handeld market.
I keep seeing this... I'm sorry, are people under an assumption that Vita was a disappointment everywhere
except Japan?
The PlayStation Vita hit a new low in Japan, as its weekly sales fell below 5,000 for the first time since its launch almost one year ago. For the week of October 29th to November 4, Media Create reported that sales of the PS Vita dropped 16 per cent from 5,80...
www.pocketgamer.com
The Nintendo Switch has done the unthinkable: it has surpassed the PlayStation Vita's lifetime [...]
comicbook.com
One million units and counting
www.gamesradar.com
I love my Vita, and wish circumstances were different, but Sony didn't abandon the Vita because they weren't interested in all that money to be made in Japan; they abandoned it because it was not making good money,
even in Japan. The system was a flop (it's worth noting that its competitor 3DS also struggled, and neither came anywhere close to the heyday of the DS vs PSP battle,) and it was clear it was in trouble very early on when Capcom was hedging on whether it had plans for a Vita Monster Hunter (the blockbuster series eventually moved over to Nintendo platforms.) Sony supported a lost cause for a while, then pivoted towards supporting and championing indies/cross-buys in hopes of extending the life for a while, (which actually kind of worked, and a good deal of the existent love of the platform comes from its extended run of life on the secondary market with PS+ freebies, cross-buy indies, Limited Run game carts, and Unity Engine projects functioning on the platform thanks to an early partnership.) It was never going to last forever, however. They just didn't have the formula for success a second time around, and I don't know how somebody can look at the sales of Gravity Daze or even Freedom Wars and say Sony bailed on an opportunity. IMO, it is abundantly clear that no matter how much support it could have gotten from Sony, Vita wasn't going to do what Switch eventually did, not in Japan or anywhere else.