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Festive portable deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

This page started for black Friday but has moved on as the deals come and go. I will update across the festive sales, as new portable hardware deals appear. I won't hype them as "pocket change" or "fire sale" like some sites, because that's bollocks.  December deals :  Evercade has 30% off various hardware, depending on the store, check the blog for details .  PlayStation Portal is currently £20 off on Amazon UK  (another £10 off for refurbs)  Update: Valve has jumped in with 20% off the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model (down to £279 in the UK) Update: Xbox Ally has various deals (pretty short-lived, but likely getting cut again for the post Christmas sale).  Update: PlayStation Portal has £20 off the range, bringing the white and black models down to £179, and 30th Anniversary Edition to £189. (Look out for another 5% off at checkout!)  First up is  Evercade offering a clutch of offers on hardware and games on Amazon and across other stores in Europ...
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Namco Rakes in the Cash on PSP, Looks Good For NGP

Financial reports are pretty dull, but a couple of things stand out about Namco's latest quarterly figures. For a start the company has had a massive 59 portable games out in Japan over the year, but only 12 in the west which shows how much more important the PSP (and DS) platforms are over there.



No wonder then that the PSP is the second best-selling platform for Namco, behind the PS3, raking in 4.5 million sales (and to think Capcom's Monster Hunter managed that on its own). We can also see that Namco has plans for 25 more PSP titles before this time next year, which is pretty healthy for an ageing system, outstripping the new and sexy 3DS which has 17 planned titles.





Top selling for PSP was God(s) Eater burst with 470,000 sales, so I'm fairly confident we can expect an NGP sequel to that to compete with MHP. Naruto and Tekken (whose developer says he wants to do an PSP2 version) have probably also performed solidly, and I hope Namco keeps up with Ace Combat as the NGP version would definitely rock.

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