For the love of god, please bring this to the vita!

[Ichigojam]

I actually registered just to try and make this happen! I was going to email the dev company if not. Recettear would be right at home on the PS Vita, the audience is there, and there are actually very few games coming out for the system currently, especially great pick up and play titles like this. I am 100% certain that if Recettear were to show up in the vita psn store, it would do very well for itself! You don't even need to integrate touch screen controls or any accelerometer nonsense, just regular controls would be fine.  I don't know what else to say, should I start a petition or something? I'll even buy like 10 copies of it myself if you do it! PLEASE. 

[DDRJake]

But...why!?

[TheSwordUser]

lolnocuzegsisbusywithterritoireherpderp

Sadly, there isn't nearly enough market for it (paradoxically), it might be a waste of money and effort to release it on Vita (as much as I'd like it to be true, with widescreen support and stuff).

[Ichigojam]

But...why!?

Not gonna lie, because I have a vita and I would personally love to play Recettear on it  But i'm sure it would sell many copies!

lolnocuzegsisbusywithterritoireherpderp

Sadly, there isn't nearly enough market for it (paradoxically), it might be a waste of money and effort to release it on Vita (as much as I'd like it to be true, with widescreen support and stuff).

I think the market is there, I'm active on the vita reddit channel, and a lot of people love all the vita games that are released in Japan, but are upset that a lot of them aren't being ported to the US or EU, a game like this would deffinitely be targetting the right market! 

[SpaceDrake]

Sadly, almost certainly not going to happen for a wide variety of reasons. While I do wish the Vita would get more support from all corners - I rather like the device - EGS' current focus is on their new and upcoming PC releases.

[Xmalek]

Let's try to be realistic here, releasing it on vita would cost way more money.

Let's say they put a developper and a graphist that do it in 4 months (which i reaalllllllyyyy doubt since it's a pc game port it would usually take at least  6 months seeing how 3d rendering is "bad" on vita) ~2*4*3000$ (cheap programmer btw) + vita devkit price (~2000$ if my memory is right) + 500$ per QA submission to Sony (you need at least one, and you usually need 3 of them) + let's say 3000$ of other people doing the papers / relations with sony / marketing (which means the game has near 0 marketing)

which makes at least 24000$ + 2000$ + 500$ + 3000$ ~= 29500$ let's round it up to 30000$ (which seems really too low)

Knowing that sony take 30% of the sale price and that the first "3000" copies are "for free" (maybe they changed that but for the first psns games it was like that)

if they sold it 10$, they should sell at least 3000 + (30000/(10*70%)) ~= 7300 games sold on PSN for vita, which seems to be quite a lot for a console that don't go "so well".

I don't know if it will goes well but an xbla / windows 8 port seems more "profitable".

[DDRJake]

I've had a PSP and loved it, but with smartphones now able to do all the movies/music even better, that leaves just the games which are expensive and not always great.

I don't know much about the Vita, could someone enlighten me as to its finer points?

[Ichigojam]

Make a kickstarter and post it around reddit, works for all the other indie devs 

[TheSwordUser]

Make a kickstarter and post it around reddit, works for all the other indie devs 

I'm pretty sure that, at the moment, EGS doesn't give a fuck about Recettear, Vita or anything else other than Territoire and Motto Osu (another small project).

So no, it isn't going to work.

[RenaTheArchmage]

I'm also pretty sure money isn't the issue here. EGS seems to have a fair bit of it.

[LilithTome]

For the love of God... no, just no...

I have a PS Vita and I love it. But doing this would be a complete waste of money. Also, there are various things I love more about my Steam account than my PlayStation Network account, for instance, Steam sales and the ability to download and play my games on any of my computers. The PlayStation Network limits you to around 3 systems I believe. There's also the fact I love my PCs more than my Vita. I'm that piece of the market that prefers gaming on the PC(whether it's a mobile pc or a desktop) but buys consoles largely for exclusive Japanese titles(actually, technically, I prefer the Linux platform and universal, interchangeable hardware to everything, but most games use DirectX over OpenGL and are Windows and not Linux compatible, also most laptops are difficult to change parts other than RAM memory, but the general principle of freedom in the "personal computer" and the universiality of the platform is why I prefer it to all other platforms).

Don't get me wrong, I love consoles. I grew up on the SNES and NES in a time when home computers offered lots of possibility for businesses, but not much in the realm of home entertainment. But while the SNES competed a lot more strongly with the home computer than and what DOS/early windows/Mac had to offer, home computers have a lot more of that content than ever before. And about all the consoles have to offer, unlike the glory days of the SNES in the 16-Bit era, are exclusive video game titles, most of which are made in Japan. My computer has become my SNES for many years now. Not just because of emulation, but because of a greater PC library and the fact that my PC is my main hub for the great deal of internet browsing and posting, 1080p video watching, and the other things in the great deal of variety the PC does. Realizing this, console companies, now, too, are including browsers and video playback tools. The PS Vita is no exception, but the formats of video playback are very limited and the browsers tend to not be very good, and the Operating Systems of these consoles and handhelds just can't compete with Windows or Linux. Nor do they have the wonderful ability to each new good piece of hardware that comes along like an HD 7870 or 3570K CPU. And that is what makes the PC, my new SNES.

And please, let me have a Japanese PC exclusive for once. I don't want to lose those, too.