By Emma Boyle
Sony may not be making great strides with its PlayStation Vita, but that doesn’t mean the company is giving up on the portable gaming market just yet.
Speaking to Bloomberg, the newly appointed head of PlayStation, John Kodera, said that Sony is still experimenting with portable and mobile gaming and that it still has a place in the company’s future.
“In my opinion, rather than separating portable gaming from consoles, it’s necessary to continue thinking of it (portable gaming) as one method to deliver more gaming experiences and exploring what our customers want from portable,” Kodera said, before adding “We want to think about many options.”
Not bowing out
Given the recent announcement that Sony will be ending production of physical Vita games and Sushei Yoshida’s assertion in 2015 that he couldn’t see there being a follow up to the Vita this might seem surprising.
However, it seems that Kodera is more interested in uniting mobile gaming with consoles, rather than creating an entirely new separate handheld console based on what he’s saying here.
When he was asked about the approach Nintendo had taken with the Switch, Kodera’s predecessor Andrew House said that PlayStation would be taking a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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