PlayStation News: PS3 and Vita Cross Buy potential is 'limited', Sony admits - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

At Gamescom 2012 Sony revealed a new initiative called "Cross Buy" this involves gamers buying say a copy of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale for PS3 and receiving a PS Vita version free of charge.

Jim Ryan, the chief executive at PlayStation Europe, told CVG that "the development environments are rather different"."PS Vita is a more PC-based environment whereas the PS3 is a more bespoke development environment. So the cross-over between both platforms is rather limited."

So the amount of Cross Buy compatible titles will most likely be very limited. However new rumours suggest that the Playstation 4 will utilise a PC-based environment so future games may be easily ported.

Shuhei Yoshida also confirmed Cross Buy will be available worldwide.


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Creative producer Yuji Korekado explained:

As of now we aren’t considering a Vita version. The reason is one of the main appeals of Metal Gear Rising is this option of the free cut.
That requires a lot of hardware power, which is only possible with the power of a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. So as of now, we haven’t contemplated bringing it to handheld consoles.