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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...

What Sony can learn (very quickly) from the MS E3 show

Just a few things...

1) Don't bang on about exclusive content on multi-platform games, you come across as needy and whiny. If I hear, "we at Sony are proud to have one bit of DLC faster than someone else" more than once, I will be cross.

2) Games with gung-ho soldiers, more bloody dragons, shiny-armored knights, weedy mages and sports cars are now over-exposed. People want to see new and different things. We want kangaroos kicking cheerleaders in the face, giant space otters eating whole moons, where killing a no-name-guard in a shooter, demonstrates the pain and loss to his family, etc.

3) Treat your core IPs with respect. Here's old Halo tarted up, but you can turn that shit off at the touch of a button, really isn't the way to sell something as loved as Master Chief (I might buy an Xbox One just for Halo 5, but not at the rate Microsoft are dragging this out). If Sony wants to reimagine the whole Resistance series, do it religiously with fans in mind, not some marketing gimp with a million big boxes in a warehouse to shift.

4) Apologise for your screw-ups, don't gloss over them and promise you're doing things for the fans! Say the word "Sorry" and try to mean it. We can accept you're all billion dollar corporations trying to make a buck, just say "sorry" properly and get on with it.


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