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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...

Japanese sales figures: they don't get Resistance either

Here's Enterbrain/Famitsu's sales figures for the week, showing flat Vita sales at 11,000 in Japan, and some interesting action on the software side. The Vita version of Level 5's Time Travelers outsold the 3DS version by a few copies, while the Japanese finally got their hands on Resistance, selling just 5,277 units.

[NDS] 01. Pokemon Black & White 2 (Pokemon, 06.23.2012): 113,901 (2,331,128)
[3DS] 02. Taiko Drum Master Chibi Dragon (Bamco Nandai, 07.12.2012): 63,388 (NEW)
[3DS] 03. Pocket Soccer League Calciobit (Nintendo, 07.12.2012): 26,015 (NEW)
[3DS] 04. Little Battler eXperience Baku Boost (Level-5, 07.05.2012): 19,468 (75,082)
[3DS] 05. Dragon Quest Monsters 3D: (Square Enix, 05.31.2012) 15,717 (828,359)
[PSP] 06. Toriko Gourmet Survival 2 (Namco Bandai, 07.05.2012): 15,672 (59,462)
[3DS] 07. Etrian Odyssey IV (Atlus, 07.05.2012): 14,221 (111,363)
[PSV] 08. Time Travelers (Level-5, 07.12.2012): 9,887 (NEW)
[3DS] 09. Time Travelers (Level-5, 07.12.2012): 9,761 (NEW)
[PSV] 15. Resistance (Sony, 07.12.2012): 5,277 (NEW)
[PSV] 21. Persona 4 The Golden (Atlus, 06.14.2012): 4,630 (193,412)
[PSP] 22. Kenka Bancho Bros. TBR (Spike, 06.21.2012): 4,619 (39,406)
[PSV] 26. Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (Konami, 06.28.2012): 3,443 (31,525)

Nintendo 3DS: 46,633 (51,930)
PlayStation 3: 15,218 (14,297)
PlayStation Vita: 11,388 (11,544)
PlayStation Portable: 11,170 (10,627)


Persona 4 heads for the 200,000 mark, while Metal Gear continues to sell helpful, if not great, numbers. The PSP version of Time Travelers is out next week.

The Media Create figures mirror these pretty much with the Vita a few dozen units up in hardware, with a life-to-date figure of 831,000. Persona 4 sold 6,000 copies according to their figures and should easily pass 200,000 this week, so pretty much one in four Vita owners possess that game.

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