PlayStation Vita Production to End in Japan in 2019 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 October 2018 / 5,797 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment senior vice president Hiroyuki Oda speaking with Famitsu at Tokyo Game Show 2018 revealed the company will stop manufacturing the PlayStation Vita in Japan in 2019.
Sony currently has no plans to release a successor to the PlayStation Vita.
"Currently, we do not have any plans regarding a new handheld device," Oda said. "In Japan, we will manufacture PlayStation Vita until 2019. From there, shipping will end."
Thanks Gematsu.
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Rip vita, we barely knew ya.
It was good while it lasted, huh?
Rip buddy. Now go rest with my old vgchartz account OneKartVita!
Well it released in 2011 in Japan so that would make a 8 year life cycle which seems quite long for a handheld.
Definitely one of the best handhelds ever made!
PS5 will be a cross between Vita and PS4!
Cue My Way playing in the packground.
Rip in peace. Press F to pay respects
RIP Playstation Handhelds
Can you imagine what it would be now if it took off?
Time to change the name to the Muerta? Just kidding. Congrats to a longer run than anyone expected. If there's no more PS handhelds coming, perhaps Sony is planning a Switch style console for the future? Or maybe an add on to the PS5 that will let you take the games anywhere like with Vita remote play? If they made a device like that which didn't need any dedicated support, I could see it working. It wouldn't need to compete with Nintendo's console, since it was just an add on device. Might be too expensive though.
It was my favorite platform for a while, until memory card failure, and all the fun of troubleshooting, re-downloading, and buying very expensive replacements became routine over a maddening 2 1/2 year period. Just part of owning a Vita. For some people anyway. At any rate, I still love the thing. Have 2 oleds in use and an LCD still new in the box. Have spent more time with it than any other platform over the past 5 years, partially due to circumstance, but mostly because I enjoyed it.
Until the PS5 hybrid in 2019?
Damn, no plans on making a new handheld. Hopefully by the time PS5 comes around, they'd enter the market again. Vita had such good potential, but they shot themselves in the foot with the paranoia from the PSP days.
What was the paranoia about? I loved my vita but sold it in ‘13 after a poor showing at e3
Sony was stubborn about using Micro SD because back in the PSP days, the console was easily hacked and its games pirated. To combat it for the Vita, they made their own memory that was 10x more expensive than Micro SD
Oh I know those cards were nothing special and over priced, but I still think in the initial planning stages of the VITA they were paranoid over piracy, that's why they opted for their own memory. If their plan was just to ride the business plan of making money off the Cards, they should have found out back in 2014 before the Slim came out that it wouldn't work.
7 years isn't that bad. More than a certain other 8th generation console.
Which was supported more fiercely by its creator than Sony did the Vita.
Yea the Wii U didn't even last 5 years and pretty sure it sold less than
the Vita.
Which is not even comparable since the WiiU and its games were much more expensive.
And yet Nintendo backed it up considerably until it was in fact dead. Sony meanwhile, left the Vita to rot from the get go.
Wii U had a successor
