Not exact matches
But, although the
successful franchise has appeared
on a
handheld platform as well, having two titles, Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, released for the PlayStation Portable system, nobody ever expected Rockstar, the company that owns the rights to the IP (Intellectual Property), to announce the fact that it would bring the series to the Nintendo DS
platform.
Nintendo need some kind of win right now, and having an entire catalogue of classic
handheld games made available
on a
successful and viable
handheld platform like the 3DS seems like a good place to start.
Sony can hardly be blamed for moving
on, however, and clearly believes that the mobile
platform will be the next
successful iteration of
handheld gaming in the industry, having opened a Sony mobile gaming studio a few years ago.