Nearly ten years after first going on sale in Japan, the PlayStation Portable has reached the end of the line in its home market. Sony confirmed to The Verge that it will stop shipping units to Japanese retailers this month, noting that it made the same move in North America this January. Sony isnt stopping production. The Game Boy line saw off competitors like the Sega Game Gear and the Neo Geo Pocket, but Sony managed to sell over 80 million PSP units worldwide.