14 DAY TRIAL // Gearbox Software, the developer of the upcoming Borderlands 2 first-person shooter, has revealed that it would love to bring the game onto the PlayStation Vita handheld platform but only if Sony handled the porting process.
Borderlands 2 is awaited by many gamers across the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 platforms this September, offering a vastly improved version of the original we saw a few years ago.
While the game will appear only on those three platforms, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has revealed that he'd love to bring it onto the PS Vita, largely because it would allow seamless interaction between it and the PS3 version.
"One of the things I wish Sony would do is get behind Borderlands, because I'd love to see a Vita version of the game," he told attendants of the Rezzed convention, via Eurogamer.
"I want to be able to have the character I'm working on with my PS3, and then when I'm on the road with my Vita I can just keep developing that same character because it exists on the cloud somewhere. Technologically, that's possible."
The only problem, however, is that Gearbox is busy with plenty of other projects, from Aliens: Colonial Marines, to Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, so it would like Sony to handle a PS Vita version of Borderlands 2.
"Perhaps some of you folks can convince Sony to start that," he said. "We're too busy to develop it ourselves. But I know there are a lot of talented developers who could take our code, our source and our content and perhaps create something like that. That would be exciting to me."
Even if fan appeal were to convince Sony to embark on such a project, it would take a long time before the PS Vita version appears.
Would you be interested in Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita or its true home is on the PC, PS3, or Xbox 360?