Originally Posted by
Leo_A
Nobody knows why they didn't really seem to try. Resistance for instance was one of their big flagship brands when the Vita was under development, Resistance: Burning Skies is one of Vita's few big exclusives, and it's 1st party.
Yet it's not here despite the touch screen stuff being used just for elementary stuff like a few virtual buttons.
Stranger still is the PSP compatibility situation where not every PSN download can be played here despite the hardware being fully capable, why some PSP downloads work on the handheld instead of the console (And vice versa), and why you have to jump through hoops to get some of it going on a PSTV like doing a transfer from a PS3. People talk up agreements with publishers as the difficulty here, but if Nintendo could set it up where virtually the entire library of DSi and Wii downloads could be transferred to their successors, surely Sony could've approached 100% here. That they haven't is a sign that they haven't tried very hard, as far as I'm concerned.
And if this was being positioned as a streaming box, its non gaming capabilities are even more puzzling like the absence of basic apps like Netflix. And even game streaming, why lock out the ability to stream from a PS3 like the handheld could? Admittedly, there's not a lot there that can be done with PS3 to Vita streaming. But if someone wanted to set it up and play a PS1 download or disc from their PS3, fire up the Team Ico collection and so on, why not let them do so when the hardware is fully capable?