Sony’s first party studios are not working on any big games for PS Vita.

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“ Instead of spending lots of money making big Killzone games on Vita, those large studios are focusing on PS4.

“To be honest, I wouldn’t say we will have big AAA Vita games from first party,” Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida told IGN.Even without big games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss or Killzone: Mercenary on the way, Yoshida said Vita will still have plenty of support from third party studios and smaller digital games.“But yesterday, Square Enix announced the new World of Final Fantasy,” he added. “That’s coming on PS Vita as well. And as you know and as I know, there are great games that come out digitally on PS Vita that are typically cross-platform with PS4. Volume is coming out soon and Super Time Force Ultra. There’s no lack of great games you can play on PS Vita and PS4. You can play at home on PS4 and continue on with cloud save on PS Vita.”“We have so much amazing AAA content from third parties, we have to put lots of those smaller games, including our own, into the trailer of everything. And so Vita games are the same. That’s how things are.”Yoshida said the situation is similar to what happened with PSP in the past.“When we launched PSP, [it was] a big deal for people to be able to play PS2-quality games on the go on a portable. And that was great,” he explained. “But after that, when PS3 was announced, and people’s expectations for the high end graphics were raised above and beyond what PSP was able to handle. Those big titles and 3D graphics and action-adventure shooters are easier to play on a big TV. So the same things [were] going to happen, and are happening.”“Instead of spending lots of money making big Killzone games on Vita, those large studios are focusing on PS4,” he continued. “But we know that the smaller games work very well on PS Vita because it doesn’t require that PS4 tech to make the game fun.”We’ll have more from our interview with Yoshida coming very soon. Until then, find everything from E3 on our E3 hub.

Andrew Goldfarb is IGN's executive editor of news. He still plays Vita a lot and you can read his rambling about it on Twitter