Sony will not be induce a follow up to thePlayStation Vita , as the president of the company has confirmed that they are no longer in the handheld business . The hand-held play securities industry has traditionally been dominated byNintendo , with its Game Boy and DS line selling millions of units around the globe , but Sony once had incredible success with its own portable venture .

In 2004 , Sony released the PlayStation Portable to the market , which would go on to sell over eighty million unit and become the tenth comfortably - selling system of all time . The PlayStation Portable was follow by the PlayStation Vita in 2011 , but this arrangement would never achieve the tallness of its predecessor and only sold around fifteen million social unit around the world . Sony give up bring forth PlayStation Vitas in 2018and there has been no word of any other handheld PlayStation systems go into development .

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It has now been confirmed that Sony is out of the hand-held market . Game Informerspoke to several cardinal figures from Sony as part of the 25th - anniversary celebrations for the original PlayStation , including Sony CEO & president Jim Ryan . When talk about the PlayStation Vita , Ryan confirmed that Sony was no longer in the hand-held gaming occupation .

" PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many shipway , and the literal gaming experience was great , but clearly it ’s a business that we ’re no longer in   now . ”

The committal to writing was on the bulwark for the PlayStation Vita for a long meter , as Nintendo kept revitalise its handheld outsings with first - party exclusives , while Sony on the face of it abandon their own handheld in ordering to focus on the PlayStation 4 . The only clock time Sony shows attention to thePlayStation Vita is to stamp out home brew supportfor the system of rules . This is n’t to say that the PlayStation Vita was n’t worthy of tending , as it had telling hardware for the time , but the lack of scoop is what down the organisation .

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It makes sense for Sony to want to focus on its home console ventures , especially asPlayStation is the best - selling domicile console brand0f all time . The success of the Nintendo Switch conduct some to think that Sony would attempt a similar hybrid dwelling / handheld idea with the PlayStation 5 , but the selective information that has been revealed about the cabinet so far suggests that it will stay in the home . It would be risky for Sony to enter the handheld market again , especially as a new arrangement would also be compete with the mobile market , so it might be for the best for the party to focus on matter like practical reality andthe approaching freeing of the PlayStation 5 in 2020 .

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Source : Game Informer

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