Sony stops producing the latest variants of the PS Vita in Japan – Games – News

Sony has probably stopped production of the PlayStation Vita. The handheld was probably only made in Japan for the Japanese market, but Sony also put a point behind it.

Sony announced last month the production stop of the PS Vita, but has not indicated a date. . Siliconera reports, among other things, that on the Japanese page Vita, the last two remaining models, the black and the "aqua blue", are reported by an abandoned . Now that production is stopped and stocks are exhausted, the only way to get a Vita will be the market of opportunity.

Sony announced last year that the end of the Vita would be imminent in 2019. month was also known that this end was near. In the Netherlands, the PlayStation Vita is no longer available since 2016. The handheld terminal was released in Japan in 2011, with a release in the Benelux in 2012. The Vita Slim arrived on the market in 2013. [19659002] "The Vita just did not hit the audience, then the developers did not If you have this, you do not attract an audience and the developers will not intervene. is a downward spiral that goes fast, "said Shawn Layden, then president of Sony Interactive Entertainment of America to Polygon in 2017.