Naughty Dog community manager Arne Meyer has moved to distance the company from claims that they are working on a PlayStation Vita title.
In a recent interview with Gametrailers (a chat that also revealed the existence of Call of Duty for Vita), Sony's Guy Longsworth was asked if we were going to see Naughty Dog making a game for Vita, to which he bullishly replied: "Absolutely."
Longsworth confidently said: "You'll see a number of games coming out from all of our studios."
It turns out that his bold assertion isn't as accurate as he might like. On a NeoGaf Forum posting, Naughty Dog (via Meyer) stated: "We're not working on anything for PS Vita. I won't say never, ever, but there's no plans for it right now - we've always felt that consoles play to our strengths as a studio the best."
In a further post he elaborated: "I've said that traditionally consoles have played to our strengths - and desires to push the utmost limit of resources and memory our tech and engine. That can change with the right handheld, as why I said I won't ever say "never" but we hadn't encountered that yet."
He also mentioned at the end of his second post that: "We've never made a handheld game, so us saying we're not working on anything at the moment shouldn't be some earth shattering surprise."
So, no Naughty Dog PS Vita game planned so far, but the studio refuses to rule it out in the future.