Sony has declared that it will stop selling floppy disks by March next year because of falling demand.

Japanese electronics major had already halted selling the floppy disks in various global markets earlier this year owing to low sales and rivalry from other storage media like online storage and portable USB drives.

The slow death of the "floppy" or "diskette" started in the year 1998 when Apple decided not to include a floppy drive in its G3 iMac computer.

Since then many other firms have blocked support for floppies, including computer giant Dell in the year 2003.

Computing store PC World discontinued selling floppy disks in the year 2007.

But, Sony continued to sell the floppy disks, and continues to ship them in the millions.

Presently, Sony, which claims to have produced the first 3.5in (9cm) disks in 1981, continues to ship floppies in the millions and approximately 12 million floppies were sold in the Japanese market during the last year. (With Inputs from Agencies)