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Like all great hardware purges, Sony starts with Japan. It happened with Vita, and now it will happen with PS4.
As reported by Game Watch, Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia will gradually eliminate all and all but one PS4 Pro model. In short, the only PS4 that will be actively sold in Japan by Sony will be the slim 500 GB Jet Black PS4. As Gematsu points out, the PS4 “OG” has already been discontinued.
Although the PS4 had a fantastic run, hitting 113.5 million units and counting (placing it directly in the top five best-selling console lists of all time, just above the original PlayStation), Sony is looking at obviously in the future here.
There are a lot of considerations when it comes to hardware, such as the physical space of shelves for retailers, as well as manufacturing concerns and overhead. Sony needs to respond to the PS5 demand and put hardware in the hands of everyone who can; and get out of an era of “lotteries” and PS5 chaos. For Sony, it is the beginning of a new era. For PlayStation fans and collectors, it’s the end of one.
PS4 [Game Watch via Gematsu]
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