From PC Mag: For gamers in the US and across Europe, the PS Vita disappeared from store shelves a long time ago. But in Japan, Sony's handheld continues to be produced and sold, but that's set to come to an end next year according to Sony.
As Engadget reports, at the 2018 Tokyo Game Show Sony Interactive Entertainment senior vice president Hiroyuki Oda was interviewed by Japanese publication Famitsu. He confirmed that the PS Vita is coming to the end of its life and that production will stop completely at some point in 2019. There is no new handheld planned.
The PS Vita was an impressive bit of kit when it launched back in 2011. The 5-inch 544p OLED touch screen was the star of the show (later replaced with an LCD panel in the Vita Slim), which combined with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore and quad-core PowerVR GPU to allow developers to produce some gorgeous games. It's just a shame Sony opted for a very expensive proprietary memory card rather than cheap and readily available microSD cards.
Over its lifetime the Vita's game library grew to 1,550 and new games are still appearing. Even so, Sony is only thought to have sold between 10 to 15 million of them. Compare that to the Switch, which has sold more than 20 million units in just 18 months.
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