PlayStation Vita in Trouble, Says Japanese Newspaper

The PlayStation Vita has had its fair share of obstacles and criticisms since its launch. Most recently, an anonymous quote from Japan's Nikkei newspaper was published today, indicating an unpromising future for the new hand-held. In the story, an unnamed source from the Japanese game industry claimed that "Major Japanese companies are cancelling all projects intended for the Vita and are changing development to the 3DS."

Scott Rohde, Sony's senior vice president of Worldwide Studios, thinks otherwise.

"I did not see that quote, but you see extremist quotes like that all the time," says Rohde, speaking with Gamasutra concerning the initial North American launch of the PS Vita.

"I mean, obviously, there is no way anyone could stand in front of a camera and say that all developers are changing focus from one platform to another, no matter what it is."

Rohde continued, indicating that it was "largely exaggerated. I know many, many, many third party developers and publishers are feverishly working on Vita titles, not just for now, but for the foreseeable future."

"There's always going to be the hot platform of the moment in our industry. There's always going to be reason to talk about a story like that."

"You can, whatever — rewind two years ago. Every developer was you knew was selling — going towards — I was going to say 'selling their soul', it almost came out — to go build games for Zynga and the Facebook platform. And there's another time when you see everyone is going to do smaller iPad games, or iOS games in general. Then it was PS3, it was 360, it's Vita, it's 3ds. It's always, constantly changing. It's not something that concerns me whatsoever."