Take this with a grain of salt as it's just a guess from Vita hackers xyz and yifan lu. xyz made a post about how Sony was able to fix Henkaku in firmware 3.61 and 3.63. You can check it out here. In the post he says that Sony's fix in 3.61 was enough to kill off Henkaku, yet he finds it odd that Sony even further put more effort in blocking Henkaku with firmware 3.63, two months after xyz made public how Henkaku works. He suggests that it doesn't make sense for Sony to implement an unnecessarily throughout Henkaku fix for a console that is considered legacy hardware by its manufacturer, unless Sony is working on a new handheld, arguably and possibly to compete with the Nintendo Switch. Fellow hacker yifan lu provided further backup. Check out his tweet below.
Summary: Sony must be working on a Vita successor. Vita is "legacy" and PS4 does not share network stack. So why go beyond just fixing bug? https://t.co/GZwoLsc1BT
— Yifan (@yifanlu) April 16, 2017
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