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PlayStation TV is NOT discontinued in Australia

969 views · Published 29 February 2016 · 2:07 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Jarrah White · 2016 · Gaming

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A lot of people don't realize this, but Sony actually currently has two home consoles on the video game market: the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation TV or PSTV. In Japan, the latter is known as the PlayStation Vita TV and you use it for playing a selection of Vita games on your TV. Fortunately, with a simple hack that you can overwrite the PSTV's whitelist and enable you to play all Vita games on it. I received one of these last Christmas and the hack works beautifully.

So you can imagine my dismay when yesterday DualShockers.com reported that Sony had discontinued the PlayStation TV in Japan. This was a surprise, as there has been no official announcement by Sony. All they did was list the PSTV bundles on their Japanese site as "出荷完了", which translates to "Shipment Completion". DualShockers translates it as "End of Shipment". 

Needless to say, the internet is now flooding with news sites echoing what was reported by DualShockers and people have begun questioning what this means for the future of worldwide PSTV sales.

I spoke with the PlayStation Support Center in Australia. While they could not confirm whether or not the PSTV was discontinued in Japan, they assured me that it has not been discontinued in Australia. Hopefully, worldwide sales will continue. If you want to invest in getting a PSTV, now is the time to do so.

For viewers wanting to read about this, here is the DualShockers.com article: http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/02/28/sony-ends-shipping-of-platstation-vita-tv-in-japan/

For viewers wanting to overwrite the PSTV's whitelist (SO LONG AS THE FIRMWARE IS BELOW 3.55!) so that they can play all Vita games on their TV, I offer this video with everything you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKzqTIZKwA

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