"The graphics took another step up. Even though these are sprites, they’re colorful, bright, and silky smooth. You don’t have to push hardware to the max to look fantastic, and Disgaea 5 proves that." - PSLS
NIS America 2022 Golden Week Sale on the Switch eShop includes Disgaea, The Legend of Heroes, Ys, and more.
Much like Square Enix, NIS America is hosting a new sale on the Switch and 3DS eShops in celebration of Golden Week 2021.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "When Sony entered the world of handheld gaming in 2004, it provided a new opportunity for developers to chase a different market than had existed before. Over the next decade we saw multiple companies, from both western and eastern shores, shift their pipelines to focus on providing software for both the PlayStation Portable and its successor the PlayStation Vita. Despite the latter’s relatively weak hardware sales, there were still successes to be found on the console, which meant that it was easy to plan a future around being a Vita developer.
By 2014, though, it had become clear that Sony was no longer interested in pursuing the handheld market and this left a number of companies in difficulty – they’d either need to adapt to the shifting times, or face dying out altogether. In this article, I’m aiming to look at what happened to developers who made both the PSP and Vita their main focus, how they adapted to the demise of Sony handhelds, what future plans they made, and how well they’re doing in the current gaming market."
The moved to the Switch from Vita. Some of the exact same games or similar games from those developers. Loved the Vita and glad to see those devs still have a platform to release lesser budget fun games.
Hopefully this helps shift a few more PS4s in Japan. With this plus Final Fantasy Type-0 dropping in March, it looks like 2015 will pick it up for consoles in Japan.