In the end, the absence of GTA IV on Vita is a lesson in platform strategy. Sony built a handheld that could run a 2008 blockbuster, but they failed to pay the bounties or make the deals necessary to bring that blockbuster over. Rockstar, for its part, chose the safer path of iterative console dominance. We are left to imagine what it would have been like: holding the Vita up to your face, hearing the distant gunfire of Liberty City through cheap earbuds, and stealing a Cavalcade while waiting for a bus. The hardware was ready. The game was ready. The moment, sadly, was not.
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While a native port of GTA IV doesn't exist, the Vita homebrew community has successfully ported earlier titles that provide a similar "on-the-go" open-world experience: In the end, the absence of GTA IV