{"id":116193,"date":"2017-03-17T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116193"},"modified":"2017-03-17T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:34:28","slug":"sony-stopping-playstation-3-production-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/116193-sony-stopping-playstation-3-production-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Sony stopping PlayStation 3 production in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony will soon halt production of the PlayStation 3 in\u00a0Japan, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gematsu.com\/2017\/03\/ps3-production-ending-soon-japan\" target=\"_blank\">Gematsu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It reported that the official web page of the 500GB PlayStation 3 \u2013 the only model still being\u00a0produced in Japan \u2013 states that\u00a0shipments are scheduled to end soon.<span id=\"more-210586\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No date has been announced, but Gematsu reported that a video game shop in\u00a0Kurume suggested\u00a0in a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VITA_Kurume\/status\/842356947978350593\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that it received word\u00a0that production will end in March.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 3 launched in South Africa on 22 March 2007. New PS3 consoles\u00a0are\u00a0no longer readily available locally.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/203184-playstation-3-production-ending-in-japan.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/199104-sony-dropping-playstation-now-support-for-ps3-and-smart-tvs.html\">Sony dropping PlayStation Now support for PS3 and Smart TVs<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony will soon halt production of the PlayStation 3 in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":36541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[129,71],"class_list":["post-116193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-playstation-3","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}