Sony officially brought PS Vita to the past!

The one-time son of Sony has officially "released his last breath." The Japanese manufacturer has recently announced that it will completely stop the release of PlayStation Vita, after performing a series of actions. "leave" gradually for this handheld game console before.

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Launched in 2011, as soon as mobile and tablet games are flourishing, despite the huge expectations, PS Vita has never made strategic attention worldwide. This series of gaming machines can be considered a victim of extremely fierce competition from smartphone applications at the time. Things got worse with the PlayStation Vita when it began to receive design complaints (including using expensive proprietary memory cards) and competition from Nintendo. Finally, PS Vita only sold a total of 16.1 million units, completely inferior to its predecessor PlayStation Portable and its contemporaries Nintendo Switch. Sony says that the purpose of the PlayStation Vita launch is to provide people with a dedicated handheld gaming device, in the context that mobile games are becoming more and more attractive, and this plan is clear. It was clear that it was broken.

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Sony said it will complete the production of the device on March 31, 2019, and does not plan to release the PS Vita handheld game console. Perhaps in the near future Japanese manufacturers will continue to focus on PS4 development and related game services such as PlayStation Now and other cloud services, which are 'golden eggs' for they were right from the launch.