If they had never sent out devkits then I totally get your perspective and others saying its the devs fault but the fact that Sony was like sure here come develop for the platform that's what pisses me off and makes it Sony's fault for not warning them. They could've said here's the devkit but were shutting down the store on this date but according to multiple devs nobody knew.
This would've been a fair point if Sony weren't still selling PS Vita dev kits as late as months ago.
You would have include a note telling them not to make anything for the WiiU or 3DS eshop.
Targeting an underserved niche audience isn't a bad business decision.
Yeah ummm.. you know there is no precedent for anything like that in all products and services thou right? Even on gaming the 360 stopped being made in 2016... I can still buy games for it.
It's likewise a fair point for developers to conclude that their audience was only getting smaller as time went on, and perhaps this was not the right platform to be developing for.
The indie devs know exactly how much money they make from their Vita releases month on month. You don't. Take a reality check that your uninformed opinions aren't facts and don't override the views of people who know the issue better than you.
no one is coming to bat for Sony, just commenting on the lack of common sense from the devs.
This is benefit of hindsight on steroids. Every games console and every PC distribution platform could hypothetically cease getting supported by the platform holder tomorrow. The writing is on the wall for the PS4 - gaze into your crystal ball and tell us which year devs should preemptively stop supporting the platform?
I'm sure out of the 20 people who still buy games, 5 of those people would have bought this one.
"couple thousands" doesn't seem too much for a dedicated evrsion, with all the costs and royalties that it needs.
The appeal to "victim blaming" is as ignorant as stupid in this context. It consists into comparing the public deny of rape and abuse survivors testimonies to snarky comments about devs facing a discontinued product.
It's fucked up because Scourgebringer could have been released as crossbuy, making it still purchasable on PSN, but apparently Sony said no.
Each dev handles their business however they see fit and either projects what sort of loss or gain they will have for each of their projects. Vita had a small trusty community of players who would grab new games instantly when new games would drop which in turn gave a good chance to small devs who either really wanted to release games there because they are players themselves or didn't want their game to be drowned out in the sea of bigger platforms like Switch or Android.
