“Sony on Wednesday confirmed rumors that it was stopping PSP Go production,” Electronista reports.
“The company in a statement said it had ‘completed’ production and was only selling remaining stock before it disappeared entirely,” Electronista reports. “Firmware patches and repairs would still go on, the company told Impress, but the focus was on the NGP’s release at the end of the year.”
Electronista reports, “The Go first shipped in October 2009 and was conspicuously designed as an answer to the arrival of the iPod touch, whose Internet-based game economy was already cutting into PSP game revenue.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Winston” for the heads up.]
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