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Let’s play the What If game. Imagine Rockstar gave a B-team in 2013 a $5 million budget to make GTA IV work on Vita. What would we get?

It would be a compromised version, similar to NFS: Most Wanted on Vita (which was a scaled-down, but still fun, mirror of the console game). Would it be worth it? For fans in 2013, absolutely. gta iv ps vita

During the development and launch window of the PS Vita (2011–2012), Sony aggressively marketed the device as a "console experience in your hand." Rockstar Games was a key partner in this endeavor, but they chose a different path for the GTA franchise. Let’s play the What If game

A top-down, cel-shaded entry that was ported from the iPhone/Android. It would be a compromised version, similar to

The absence of a GTA game on Vita is often cited as one of the key reasons the handheld failed. Sony’s internal documents from the 2014 PlayStation Vita post-mortem (leaked in the 2019 “Sony Hack”) reportedly listed “lack of third-party AAA support, especially Rockstar” as a major factor.

In 2021, a former Rockstar developer (speaking anonymously to VGC) said: “We looked at Vita. We had a prototype running a stripped-down Liberty City. But it was a slideshow. And Sony wouldn’t fund it. So we walked away.”