Sony Discontinuing PSP - console
(hx) 05:40 PM CEST - Jun,04 2014
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The PSP's days are numbered. Sony announced today that the portable gaming device, originally launched ten years ago, will be discontinued worldwide by the end of 2014. The Associated Press reports that PSP shipments ended in North America in January, are scheduled to end in Japan this month, and will come to a close later this year in Europe. Sony is now, of course, pushing the platform's successor, the PlayStation Vita.
The Sony PlayStation Portable or Sony PSP console later launched worldwide in 2005 and has since clocked up 80 million sales worldwide as of November 2013. The Sony PSP was originally to have a simultaneous PAL European and US launch, but on March 15th 2005, Sony announced that the PAL region launch would be delayed due to the high demand for the console in Japan and the US. The next generation Sony PS Vita handheld console launched in Japan on December 17th 2011 and has since rolled out worldwide during 2012. Sony launched a new redesigned version of the PS Vita model, in the form of the PCH-2000 series, that is 20 percent thinner, 15 percent lighter, and offers an additional hour of battery life, together with an LCD screen rather than an OLED, which launched in Japan on October 10th 2013.
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