2013 Game Lineup

Well for starters there's Sly Cooper coming out in February, which is going to be fan-tas-tic. Then there's Killzone: Mercenary (which doesn't have a set date yet, but expected in 2013) which should be pretty good. Dead or Alive 5 Plus is coming out in March which might be good too!

So not too many, but at least there's a few big games coming out to start the year off!

Soul Sacrifice, DOA5+, and Phantasy Star Online 2 are the last hopes of this forsaken device

Lone Survivor, Rainbow Moon, Isaac, DoA and Ninja Gaiden are (enhanced) ports, Sly and Dragon's Crown will exist on the PS3. Bioshock is questionable. So exclusive wise it looks a bit grim. Media Molecule and Guerilla are 1st party, the lack of 3rd Party support is worrisome.

Where's Square Enix on this thing? they stormed the PSP at the end of it's lifespan.

quote Dragoon

Isn't Bioshock meant to be coming to the Vita too?

This article came out in December but I'm pretty sure the game will still happen.

As for killzone Kinetic, I heard it was coming out in March?

quote Kinetic

quote lovelyfisher

As for killzone Kinetic, I heard it was coming out in March?

Still no official release date, unfortunately. Just been confirmed for this year.

Hopefully it comes out early 2013 then, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm really hoping it is the first shooter that actually takes advantage of the vita's hardware

Thank God. I didn't know about any of these (good marketing, Sony). I'll most likely give only two of the mentioned a try, which still isn't much but it's something. Let's hope they're purposely keeping us in the dark and have a few secrets to surprise us with.

Actually the line up for 2013 isn't all that bad or barren and bleak like most people would say. To prove that let's do some research on famitsu. (Mind you this is from a Japanese sales point of view and not North American)

http://www.famitsu.com/schedule/psv/

Excluding the titles that probably won't increase the Vita sales all that much, for 2013 you have

Feb 2013
-Ciel RE:incarnation (Japan only)
(NOTE: the game sold pretty well in Japan according to some sources and I expect the expansion to do more or less the same)
-Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus
-Phantasy Star Online 2
(NOTE: Phantasy Star Online 2 is HUGE in Japan and second to Monster Hunter. So definitely this title is a tide turner for the console - at least in Japan)

March
-Soul Sacrifice
-Tales of Hearts F (Japan only)
-Steins:Gate (Japan Only)
(NOTE: Steins:Gate's popularity was HUGE in the visual novel/anime scene and the releasing the game on the Vita is a testament that 5pb (the company who made the game) is confident that it will sell well)
-DOA 5 Plus
-Atelier Meruru 3 (Japan only)
-One Piece Kaizoku Musou 2 (This will make it to overseas, that's almost 100% sure)

Unconfirmed release date for 2013
-Jet Set Radio (Jet Grind Radio)
-God Eater 2
-Vahalla Knights 3
-Guilty Gears XX Accent Core Plus R
-Gundam Breaker
-Dragon's Crown
-Zone of the Enders HD

On-Going Projects
-Final Fantasy X remake
-Level 5 unconfirmed RPG
-Atlus - Shin Megami Tensei unconfirmed RPG

Also, I've omitted a bunch of titles that aren't popular or well known in North America. Interesting enough seeing a variety of titles on famitsu says a lot on how the console is performing. The fact that there are a multitude of titles from different genres that are being planned proves that the system is on-going and that 3rd party developers are interested in making games for the console. The PS Vita is not dead, just that IMO Sony is determine to fix their market on the home front first.