PlayStation no longer in the handheld business, Sony says

5 Dec 2019

Steve Wright

The PlayStation Vita will likely be the last Sony handheld console available to consumers, with Sony’s Jack Ryan saying the company is “no longer” in the handheld business.

“PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in now,” Ryan, the President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said to GameInformer.

Sony’s focus at the moment is clearly on the next-gen PlayStation 5; already, PS5 dev kits and new DualShock 5 controllers have been spotted in the wild.

Do you wish Sony would make a new handheld console? Why or why not?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.