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PS Vita 'still a great platform to play games on,' says Sony

Shuhei Yoshida reiterates that PS Vita isn't dead---at least, not yet.

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on 3 July 2015

The PlayStation Vita will continue to remain a 'great platform' to enjoy games on, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS) has said.

Speaking with GameReactor, Shuhei Yoshida reiterated that the struggling handheld hasn't run out of steam despite Sony confirming it won't be making anymore first-party titles for it. However, it's still clear the system has been regulated to companion status alongside PS4, with a focus on Indie titles.

"So today our focus as first-party is to work on PS4 titles,” said Yoshida-san, “but we’re offering digital games that works on PS4 and PS Vita, games that we release are this year like Helldivers, works really well on PS Vita as well.

And there’s no shortage of great Vita games coming out from great indies, like Volume or Super Time Force Ultra, that come with [their] PS4 counterpart that people can purchase one game and get the game on both platforms, and you can play at home on PS4 and you can continue playing on your PS Vita.

People love it. I love it, the way I can play the games on Vita on the go, because I travel a lot. I’ve been playing Shovel Knight, and that’s awesome, but I can continue my play at home on PS4 as well. So we continue to support these efforts, and some Japanese publishers are announcing new exciting titles as well, like you saw the World of Final Fantasy announced by Square-Enix, that will come on PS Vita as well.

So I think PS Vita will continue to be a great platform to play games, and there will continue to be great games coming out on the system as well.”

Sony previously said it was 'happy' with U.S. sales of PS Vita, and promised 100 games coming for the system in 2015. Much has been made of PS Vita's status after Andrew House, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), labelled the handheld as a 'legacy platform.'

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