{"id":34623,"date":"2021-01-05T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=34623"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:09:20","slug":"sony-interactive-entertainment-to-end-production-of-all-ps4-models-except-one-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=34623","title":{"rendered":"Sony Interactive Entertainment to end production of all PS4 models except one in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ps4-pro-ps4-slim-ps4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ps4-pro-ps4-slim-ps4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ps4-pro-ps4-slim-ps4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/strong> Japan Asia has decided to halt the production of all <strong>PlayStation 4 Slim<\/strong> (CUH- 2000 Series) models except one variant in Slim lineup, and all <strong>PlayStation 4 Pro<\/strong> (CUH-7000 series) models in Japan, the company confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>PlayStation 4 slim<\/em> first launched in September 2016 in Japan, followed by <em>PlayStation 4 Pro<\/em> in November 2016. The original<strong> PlayStation 4<\/strong> (CUH-1000 series) model, which already ended production, launched in February 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only <em>PlayStation 4<\/em> model that will continue to be manufactured and sold in Japan is the standard <em>PlayStation 4 slim<\/em> 500 gigabyte model in \u201cJet Black&#8221; color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This decision comes after the company failed to meet the customer demand for the highly anticipated <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong> console which led to extreme shortages in the country. They plan to use the newly freed production lines to manufacture <em>PlayStation 5<\/em> so that their customers can quickly transition to the newer hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source &#8211; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2021\/01\/sony-interactive-entertainment-ends-production-of-all-ps4-models-except-one-in-japan\">Gematsu<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia has decided to halt the production of all PlayStation 4 Slim (CUH- 2000 Series) models&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=34623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sony Interactive Entertainment to end production of all PS4 models except one in Japan&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":34625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[1101,1233,2636,626],"class_list":["post-34623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-videogames-2","tag-ps4-2","tag-ps4-pro","tag-ps4-slim","tag-sony","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sony Interactive Entertainment to end production of all PS4 models except one in Japan - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=34623\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sony Interactive Entertainment to end production of all PS4 models except one in Japan - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia has decided to halt the production of all PlayStation 4 Slim (CUH- 2000 Series) models&hellip; 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