However, in early 2018, Sony officially announced that starting on March 8th, 2019, PS Plus's monthly member games will no longer be open to the PS3 and PS Vita. At the time, Sony gave the reason that they noticed more and more More users have switched to the PS4 platform.
Of course, the games that were downloaded before March 8 including the archives are not affected and are still valid.
Recently, the press from the report pointed out that Spain became the first regional market to formally suspend production of PS Vita. The confirmation of this news is the official Twitter account of Sony PS Spain.
Analysts said that starting with Spain, it is not difficult to speculate that there will be more regions to join PS Vita’s decommissioning operations.
According to the data, PS Vita was announced in January 2011, followed by the 2013 PSV 2000 model. Due to the absence of strong IP in the wave of smartphones, the PS Vita market was stabilized, resulting in the collapse of Sony's handheld strategy.
However, Nintendo did not lose a lot, but instead promoted its position in the video game circle with the introduction of Switch.