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Sony has gone to lengths to ensure that developers for the PS Vita are supported as much as possible. The company’s top development executives claim that Vita is the most dev-friendly Sony platform to date.
Under the leadership of Ken Kutaragi, Sony’s previous method was to build powerful, yet complex platforms, in order to give developers a challenge, provoking them to create something amazing.
“That was very good – it was great – for the teams with engineers who liked the challenge,” SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida explained to Develop, “but the world has now changed, and today there is a much larger community of developers.”
“The focus has shifted to be less about getting the most out of the hardware, to be about having a very smooth production process. That’s because now it involves so many more people to make one game.”
Michael Denny, senior vice president of SCE Worldwide Studios agrees:
“When it comes to ease of development, the Vita is a platform with which we’ve been very mindful of that,” he said. “In terms of smoothing the development process, certainly what the Vita offers is close to that of the PSP, and with some of the help we’re giving to developers, I would say it is the easiest and most well supported platform yet.”
Vita is due for release this year in Japan, with other territories getting the handheld by the end of March 2012.
Whether developers agree that PS Vita is the ‘quantum leap’ in gaming Sony says it is, remains to be seen.
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