The PSPgo was originally launched in March of 2005, and since then we've seen a handful of hardware revisions. The biggest change though is that there isn't a UMD slot anymore, a more portable version of the hardware that's designed specifically for the recent uprising of digital downloads.

The latest news mentioning Sony has apparently pulled the plug on production of its PSPgo handheld, according to reports from Japan. With triple digit weekly sales, PSPgo died a long time ago. But Sony may be making it official.

The gossip comes by what it perceives as a blog run by a Sony Shop employee, “or at the very least a super hardcore Sony fanatic.”

It claims that "Sony has confirmed to his sales manager that production on the troubled portable system is indeed ceasing. The blogger's shop won't be getting any more shipments."

In addition, the site also notes that the handheld was removed from the Japanese Sony Store game page, You can still access the Sony Store PSP go product listing here, although you can't actually order the system because there's no stock and no forecast for when stock will arrive.

PSPgo hasn’t been performing particularly well in the Land of the Rising Sun, and is frequently outsold by the bog-standard PSP SKU and pretty much everything else on the market for that matter.

It seems digital download console to the global market is still too far, in some parts of the world where network infrastructure is not as futuristic that people expect.

The PSPgo has been designed specifically for digital downloads, so while it's possible to use it without ever getting online, you'd be missing out if you never connected.