Sony to stop selling the PSP in Japan

4 Jun 2014

Steve Wright

According to the Associated Press, Sony has decided to stop selling the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in Japan.

Unavailable in America since January 2014, the PSP has been going strong in Japan for the last ten years.

Sony says they’ve shipping 76 million PSPs, though that count was from two year ago back in 2012.

Sales of the PS Vita aren’t as strong as the PSP, though have surged through the introduction of PS4 remote play on the handheld device.

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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.