Hiroyuki Oda, senior vice president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, told Japanese magazine Famitsu during Tokyo Game Show 2018 that the PS Vita handheld will be manufactured in Japan until 2019 and that there are no plans for a successor.
"At the moment, we have no plans for a new handheld device," Oda said. "In Japan, we will manufacture the PlayStation Vita until 2019. After that, shipments will end."
The PS Vita stopped being a priority for Sony a long time ago, and in recent years it has been kept going by companies that produce indie games and Japanese third parties such as Bandai Namco, SEGA, Atlus, Square Enix, NIS America, Falcom, XSeed and others.
Sony announced that production of cartridges for the handheld's games would end in the West in March 2019, but would continue in Japan until then. However, with the announcement that production of the handheld itself will end, most of its games, even in Japan, will probably be released only in digital form, with new games continuing to launch until 2020.
