Sony has confirmed that it doesn’t consider itself to be in the business of making handheld gaming consoles any more. That means we shouldn’t expect a follow-up to the PSP or PlayStation Vita anytime soon, if ever.

President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan recently spoke to Game Informer for a feature that looks back on the 25-year history of PlayStation consoles. As part of this, he remembered the PlayStation Vita and confirmed that there were no plans for any more PlayStation consoles like it in the future.

“PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in now,” Ryan said.

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His words parallels those of Jack Tretton, former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, when he spoke to IGN about the PS Vita back in 2016.

"Now that I don't work there anymore, I think internally it was: 'This is a great machine, it's just too late.' The world has shifted to portable devices that aren't dedicated gaming machines," Tretton said.

In fact, it’s the same sentiment that Sony has been spreading at least as far back as 2015. Back in September of that year, then SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that a successor to the PS Vita would be unlikely as “the climate is not healthy” due to the dominance of mobile gaming.

However, PlayStation boss John Kodera said in 2018 that he wanted PlayStation to keep experimenting with portable gaming. “Rather than separating portable gaming from consoles, it’s necessary to continue thinking of it as one method to deliver more gaming experiences and exploring what our customers want from portable,” Kodera said at the time.

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This new quote from Jim Ryan certainly confirms that there will be no more PlayStation consoles, but that doesn’t mean the PS5 won’t have some form of portable gaming, nor does it mean Sony won’t make portable games for other platforms.

Of course, these days Sony is focusing on developing the PlayStation 5 ahead of its release in holiday 2020. We already know some of its hardware specs, had a glimpse at the PS5 controller, and have even seen the PS5 devkit.

Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.