Does Sony need their own version of Pokemon
 

Do you guys think Sony needs a handheld IP to rival that of Pokemon to sell their Vita system?

A genuine world wide phenomon? Yeah, that might help. It would take an explosion along the lines of Pokemon to save that thing.

I believe they hoped Littlebigplanet would be their breakthrough kids hit. While Littlebigplanet has sold extremely well, it didn't ever become a new kid fad.

They've gone the total opposite direction with their strategy. Nintendo pushes their portables with perfect-for-portable games, and Sony wants to replicate the console experience on the go. I don't know if switching up that strategy would help. It may be best to work in their own niche, and let Nintendo have theirs.

Calling it extremely successful is a huge stretch. The first one sold 5 million worldwide, because suckers like me thought it would be a fun platformer. The second one sold 2 million less an the portable ones may as well never have come out. Those kind of numbers for a heavily marketed first-party title are shameful. It's complete sh*t anyways. If LBP3 actually sells on PS4 it'll just continue prove Sony owns the small minded sheep in the games community. Even with the overwhelming amount of slack Sony is (un-rightfully) given these days, I don't see that translating into anything more than average sales for the series.

I know their have been a few attempts such as Invizimals but those weren't successful enough to help sell their handhelds. I feel that if they were to try this again, they need to think of something imaginative that could prove competition against Nintendo's biggest handheld franchise.

The PS Vita is dead, and there will most likely not be another Sony handheld after that. It completely bombed and handheld gaming is dying outside of Nintendo because of mobile phones.

Sony itself has been posting financial losses for like 5 years in a row now. Even with the PS4 selling like hotcakes they can't even turn a profit.

Trying to compete with Pokémon with a different type of monster game is unlikely to work because those attempts get seen through immediately.

I'm a Digimon fan, just trust me on this.

I'd want to see them try. Just to see how big the crash site and resulting fire would be.